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Antrim / Re: Kane/Cain/ O'Kane Kilcoobin and Ardihannon
« on: Sunday 19 February 17 16:44 GMT (UK) »
Still thinking about going to the conference and wondering if I know enough yet. What dna test group did you join?
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Antrim / Re: Kane/Cain/ O'Kane Kilcoobin and Ardihannon
« on: Wednesday 28 December 16 15:29 GMT (UK) »
Hi Wyanga
Thanks so much for all the helpful information. I've tried to read a little about the history of the area and the waves of migration hoping to deepen my understanding of why people left and the politics around why they would drop the O from their name. I think there was a famine in 1740 that drove many abroad. I used my brother, Robert Daniel Kane, for the Family Tree dna test kit 415679. On FTdna I have joined several projects including the Cain and the McCain project which was recommended by Barry McCain as well as the McHenry and Carson projects. In the McCain project we fell into the O'Cahane group. Sadly, my closest match Level 1 seems to have become inactive , his ancestor Alexander Cain was born in 1824 in Northern Ireland. On level 2, I have a John McHenry from Dungiven and a William Kane born 1828 in Ballintoy. It has been hard looking on "both sides of the pond" to trace and document an ancestor who came before 1800. For a long time I thought we must be McCain's from Scotland but finding out we were from the O'Cahanes around Ulster was quite exciting. My mother's side (Huguenot), my father's mother side (English), and my father's grandmother's side (Scottish) I've traced back to colonial America in the 1600s but they were from families with great genealogical research. I joined the North of Ireland Family History Society recently which has opened up new avenues. Again, thanks so much. I really appreciate learning of your work. Karen
Thanks so much for all the helpful information. I've tried to read a little about the history of the area and the waves of migration hoping to deepen my understanding of why people left and the politics around why they would drop the O from their name. I think there was a famine in 1740 that drove many abroad. I used my brother, Robert Daniel Kane, for the Family Tree dna test kit 415679. On FTdna I have joined several projects including the Cain and the McCain project which was recommended by Barry McCain as well as the McHenry and Carson projects. In the McCain project we fell into the O'Cahane group. Sadly, my closest match Level 1 seems to have become inactive , his ancestor Alexander Cain was born in 1824 in Northern Ireland. On level 2, I have a John McHenry from Dungiven and a William Kane born 1828 in Ballintoy. It has been hard looking on "both sides of the pond" to trace and document an ancestor who came before 1800. For a long time I thought we must be McCain's from Scotland but finding out we were from the O'Cahanes around Ulster was quite exciting. My mother's side (Huguenot), my father's mother side (English), and my father's grandmother's side (Scottish) I've traced back to colonial America in the 1600s but they were from families with great genealogical research. I joined the North of Ireland Family History Society recently which has opened up new avenues. Again, thanks so much. I really appreciate learning of your work. Karen
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Antrim / Re: Kane/Cain/ O'Kane Kilcoobin and Ardihannon
« on: Monday 26 December 16 18:12 GMT (UK) »
Several DNA matches (level 2 in family tree dna) indicate my family came from the Dungiven, Ballintoy area. I have hit a brick wall confirming my most distant ancestor's parents and confirming their home town in Northern Ireland. Hugh Carson Kane was born in Western Pennsylvania in 1797. There was both a James Kane and a Hugh Carson living in Allegheny Co who were probably soldiers awarded the land for fighting in the Revolutionary War. I can't confirm this by the 1800 census since, while James Kane did have a son the right age, names of children weren't listed on the census at that time. Assuming both men, James and Hugh Carson(who I suspect was his mother's father since the men in my Kane family often take their mother's maiden name as their middle name), emigrated from Antrim County are there any records from that early time of emigration to America? Eventually I'll look in early Protestant church records around modern day Pittsburgh. For now, I'm thinking about coming to the genealogy conference next August in Coleraine. Thanks for any ideas. Karen
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