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Subject: [DNA-R1B1C7] What's the connection here?
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:19:11 +0000
"And when did he come to Scotland? There was so much migration back and
forth over the centuries. We have one McLaughlin in our project who was sure
her family were Scottish - her grandfather identified with the Scots so much he
adopted the Maclachlan spelling. Yet the DNA screams "Donegal." That Burns
sample is one of the few from this group who claim a Scottish origin. "
Or the other way around? I recalll a message from David Wilson (correct me if I misremember) in which he expressed doubts that R1b1c7 originated in Ireland rather than Scotland. Perhaps the other six of us who tested R1b1c7 (and the 11 whose markers indicate that they are) should be looking over there for our origins. I sure can't pin name down to northwest Ireland in any of its phonetic variations. Nor could John who mentioned that the earliest he noted in Donegal were a group of Byrne in Boylach (listed as O Birne in some early documents). About the same time, James I pardoned several O Birne in Ballymote, Sligo--two of whom were listed as "galoglas" and three as "shot." The same people? They could have been Scot mercenaries employed by Red Hugh O'Donnell. But that is pure speculation.
Paul
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