[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..

[the scotsman]

Thanks for reply.

I was born and raised in Irvine, lol. Partly raised in Kilmarnock, living for a few years in Riccarton!. Educated partly in Kilmarnock as well.

Dad is from North Ayrshire, so I know Dalry very well. I live now in Ayr, and pass St Quivox all the time, still a lovely wee village literally now on the tip of north Ayr.

Mum is a Campbell as well.