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From: "Terry Strasser" <>
Subject: Re: [R-M222] Coyne and Golden project families
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:06:43 -0500
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Michael:

Would the Partraige group equate with Partry, as in Partry Mountains of
Mayo? I've seen O Cadhain described as a minor sept of Partry, and in
checking for surnames associated with my brother's closest FTDNA R-M222
67-marker matches, Gormley at a GD of 2 is listed in "Irish Families" as
occurring in both Donegal and the Partry Mountains.

Many of his closest matches, however, originate in the north, Down and
Donegal especially (J. Moore, there's a Gwinn at GD 4, and that variant on
Quinn was
found in County Down "after the Cromwellian Wars.")

It's still a tossup between O Cadhains and some other northern sept for the
original of the Coyne surname. (Barra McCain of the Ulster DNA Project
seems convinced of the latter.)

Terry Coyne Strasser

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Keaveney" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [R-M222] Coyne and Golden project families


> The Galway-Mayo Coynes are probably part of a group of families called "na
> Partraige" (Partridge) who by all accounts migrated from Thomond to an
> area
> between between Lough Corrib and Lough Mask on the Galway-Mayo border in
> the
> 5th century AD.
>
> Surnames associated with this grouping are Finneran, Tierney, Darcy and
> Coyne/Kyne. < snip

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