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Armagh / Re: Pickering of Armagh
« on: Thursday 25 January 24 22:04 GMT (UK) »
RichardinMichigan - A long time spent pursuing the inlaws ancestry and now I have gone back to my own - and this elusive DNA match to Farmhill. Ancestry has known shown by connection by DNA to Bullick on my mother's side. They were purely North Antrim people for over 200 years so we are mystified. Bullick was from Fintona, to the south west of Lough Neagh, McCunn from just south of the Magilligan point on the map of NI. The only possible connection we see is McKinley - Mum's great grandmother was Catherine McKinley of a place called Newtowncrommelin near Ballymena. The McCunn family was founded upon the marriage of a Matty or Martha McKinley and McCunn, earliest ref I find is to he in(famous) Judge John McCunns baptism in Tamlaghtfinlagan Church, but this is some forty or fifty miles from the seat of my McKinley side at Newtowncrommelin or even at Dervock, the homestead of the ancestors of President McKinley who by family lore is supposed to be our relative.