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Wonder if you have done DNA on Ancestry or MyHeritage.  A fair time lapsed since I discussed the connections with Gordons of the coal yard and actually got caught up in my mother-in-law's tree at the request of a relative on that side.  Meanwhile, MyHeritage has yielded some Gordon matches originating in Donegal.   It would seem that there was a line going back to beef farmer/butchers who came from Scotland about a hundred years ago, who arrived and settled around Donegal town and married into the local community, with just a few carrying the name Gordon now around, but many absorbed into other families.  Curious to know if any of the line discussed on this thread match these folks, or can relate to them.

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.

Hi, I realise this is an extension of a very old post (2009) but I have information relevant.  I am descended from McFadden of North Antrim - a John McFadden who married Rose Ann Wilson in the 1850s in Loughguile Parish Church.   I got a DNA match yesterday which MAY connect me to North Antrim Stewarts around Dervock/Stranocum - until yesterday a name not associated with my research, and maybe still not relevant.  Searching census 1901 for James Stewart, whose daughter Anna born circa 1870 may be a joint ancestor with my match I found a bachelor James Stewart living in Stranocum village in 1901 with an assortment of hitherto unknown McFaddens, including Joseph McFadden aged 11, son of unmarried Jane, who was daughter to unmarried Mary Elizabeth - these ladies had children out of wedlock, sometimes naming the father on birth records and lived with James Stewart the oldest one's bachelor uncle.  Elsewhere on a James' birth 1877 we find Mary Elizabeth to be the village shop keeper.  So... by 1904 James the uncle is deceased, and by 1911 census no trace of anyone of the family save for Joseph McFadden who had Reid in his birth registration, who now is Joseph Stewart McFadden, born Co Antrim, grandson to Isaac Stewart and living at Bovagh!   This may help the person who originally researched Joseph and in turn if anyone can find the link between the Stewarts and McFaddens of Stranocum I would be extremely grateful.

Several years have passed with my Scotts on hold.  Now a couple of relatives of Charles's have arrived on the scene hoping for some information.   Charles Scott born 1868 at Ballynian between Garvagh and Swatragh married twice  - firstly to a relative (1895), Martha Jane McCullough (various surname spellings are available) with whom he had a large family, and secondly to Elizabeth Smyth, with whom he had a little son who died aged three.  I have amassed quite a lot of info re Charles - though his parents Nancy Kennedy and Charles Scott were married a good few years before registrations commenced therefore we only have records of children born after 1860.  Will be interested if anyone can supply any records for older children born at Ballynian.  But for now, the question that mystifies us all - why is there no death registration for Martha Jane Scott who died between 1904 and 1909 at Ballylame, Garvagh, their newer farm and no grave?  Charles her son, and her husband Charles are both buried in Main Street Garvagh, I recently visited the grave, but the Graveyard Convener there has no reason to believe that there is anyone else in that grave - so that begs the question where is Martha Jane and where is Elizabeth's infant son James?  As Martha came from closer to Swatragh I wonder if it might be there - but McCullough is so common a surname in the south of the county I have no idea where to start looking - Swatragh perhaps would be a start.  But that doesn't explain where the little one was laid to rest in 1912.  Any ideas welcome.

Richard - interesting, It is to this  current John's sister that I have my match.  They tell me my Grandfather may have driven the carriage when John 1902 was attending school, but that wouldn't give me a DNA match, and Grandfather was deceased by then!