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Hi Busbar, aka "David"! That is amazing we share first names! Thank you for responding, and I do hope we can find some linkage. The only names I have from Tullylish are John and Josephs (2 of them). I think (guess) John and Joseph were brothers (born @ 1820-30's) and their Dad was Joseph (@1800?). Since they first show up in New York in the 1860 US census, I've guessed they came over due to the famine. So, no, the other names you mention are unfamiliar. Are you on Ancestry.com, or FamilyTree DNA? I am on the FTDNA Chambers Project.
My Dad (Ed Chambers) visited Londonderry in WWII. He was on a a US Cost Guard Cutter. The ship had an accident, and he was hurt pretty bad, and stayed in a Londonderry hospital for a month.
Hope to hear more from you, and maybe Jane Meek will shoe up in your records.

Dave

Did anyone have any luck seeing the information karen1chambers was trying to post back in 2011, or find her family tree? I'm not having any luck on Ancestry.com.

Thanks,
Dave

Chambers/Mangan tree on Ancestry.com

I am David Chambers, from New England, USA. I've lived in Massachusetts, and now Rhode Island. The oldest Chambers ancestor I can find is a John Chambers, who first appears in upstate New York, near Albany, in 1860. I have a record showing him marrying Jane Meek in Tullylish, County Down, in 1853. I suspect he had a brother Joseph, who also lived in New York, and their father may have been Joseph.

JONMONASH...any idea of a connection to your family? It appears Tullylish is about an hour drive from Tullynaskeagh. I am on the Chambers yDNA project.

Thanks for any help!