[the scotsman]

As a Scot, I am fascinated. Even more so as a proud Ayrshireman.

I assume that they went from Scotland to Ireland originally in the 17thC Plantation of Ulster, then later returned to Scotland?.

Any idea where the ‘hometown’ was in Ayrshire?. As I said, I am an actual Ayrshireman and would be delighted to answer any questions you have about Ayrshire or Scotland or Britain.

[Tennessee Nana]

Well apparently the families travelled back and forth a few times..following the better weather and harvest during starving times..

In that final family who left County Down in 1861 and went to Ayrshire for 2, 3 years where the Dad worked in the iron mines, and then onto New Zealand, there were the blood of the Campbell’s, the Hunters and Irvines and the McClimonts..

Yes Campbells born in County Down, Ireland..

:)

and yes I have read where the families may have been in Ireland that long..back to the 17th century..

as for the first 2,3 older siblings of my grandfather, they were born in Dalry, Ayrshire and not County Down

And for more Ayrshire pride, that McClimont grandfather married a Harris ..

My Harris grandmother was born in NZ but her father was born in Irvine, Ayrshire and his Harris/Ewart parents were from Kilmarnock..

They lived in St Quivox and Riccarton and were coal miners for generations..

[Tennessee Nana]

The “hometown” area my grandfather’s parents went to for 2,3 years before they left for good to New Zealand was Dalry but the families came from that general area..

There are lots of McClimonts and McClymonts buried in the cemeteries near there dating from that time and earlier...

Plus the wife was an Irvine..