I have an Ancestry substantial DNA match with a person originally from Giant's Causeway (Aird) North Antrim, on my paternal side. Whilst I cannot say this is impossible it is unlikely and my match is adamant that it is wrong! Paternal side lived in Shuttle Hill Coleraine in the late 1800s and as I think my married great uncle fathered a child to have this size of match possibly with a neighbour, a Mary Kane nee Martin in 1914. I think she was Scottish, and her husband Alexander, a tailor was from a line of Kane/McKillip from Killowen (though those are Bushmills names I can find no connection). Mrs Kane had a baby girl Annie Jane in a house at the Aird at the same time as an Aird girl had a daughter Winifred- she was Lizzie known as Stirling or McCollum. Lizzie had several children which I believe her mother reared as her own, including this 1914 arrival. I think these babies were perhaps mixed up as this could explain the DNA match - Kane's baby stayed with Lizzie's mother? Six months later we learn of the Kanes living in Belfast (quite a move for Killowen people) and Mary Kane dies at that point of TB. Alexander remarries and has two more children but Annie Jane born at Aird is not listed in their family per Wikitree (all else checks out including his profession as a tailor). I would appreciate it if anyone can tell what became of Annie Jane or if anyone can help explain why what appears to be a dying, pregnant woman went to a house at the Aird to have her baby. My DNA match who connects to the child Winifred who remained with McCollums/Purdys has no idea of these distressing twists - lives overseas.
