Posted by Gary Spiers on 9/28/2009, 12:32 am, in reply to "Re: NOTICE TO Decendants of John Spiers 1799-1889 PRC, Mississippi"
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ANDREW SPIERS registered KILCOO of CLANMAGERY father was JOHN SPIERS b. ca. 1813 married 21 Jun 1838 at ?SEAFORDE DOWN PARISH? to Mary ANN SMYTH. JOHN SPIERS elder brother was HENRY SPIERS ca. 1800-1882 DUNDRINE PARISH, KILMEGAN.
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: ANDREWS SPIERS had sister named
: ELIZABETH SPIERS of MURLOUGH, COUNTY
: DONEGAL married HENRY MCNEIL of
: AUGHLISNAFIN. HENRY and ELIZABETH
: had children JOHN SPIERS b. 03 Mar
: 1869 and MARY ANN SPIERS b. MARY ANN
: SPIERS b. 14 Apr. 1871.
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: We start from his line of ANDREW
: SPIERS, REGISTERED in KILCOO of
: CLANMAGERY, IRELAND married ?Sarah
: Gibson? 1868 PARISH DRUMGOOLAND.
: They had son John Spiers b. 03 Mar.
: 1869 COUNTY DOWN.
: NOTE: The ? beside Sarah Gibson
: means that info is questionable.
: ANDREW continued on family farm at
: MURLOUGH UPPER. Last surviving
: child, LESTRAGE SPIERS died
: unmarried 20 Oct. 1967. Lestrage
: Spiers was last to live on family
: farm.
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: Ok, the person that I matched has
: ancestors that lived in Northern
: Ireland. I think they were
: SCOTCH-IRISH. They immigrated from
: SCOTLAND. They were mostly from
: COUNTY DOWN, IRELAND.
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: I recently had a DNA TEST and have
: found one SPIERS with a GENETIC
: DISTANCE of 1. There is a 77% chance
: that we share a COMMON ANCESTOR in
: the EARLY 1700's or earlier. I will
: be adding infomation on my
: information in my next POST.