Greetings

Recent DNA testing has revealed some really interesting information linking two loyalist families.

Angus Cameron and his son Donald, sometimes called Daniel, emigrated from Scotland to New York in 1773 and arrived at Sir Johnson's land between Feb and Sept 1773. Both of them joined the British army and were given land in Charlottenburgh and Cornwall, Ontario. There is no record of this family having lived on the granted land in Charlottenburgh, and documented moves from Cornwall to Roxborough and then to Grey County, Ontario. All of the church records from this family come from presbyterian records. This family line is documented at http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

William Bui Cameron (1733-?) and his wife Katherine McDonnell emigrated with the four McDonnells and their group on the Pearl and landed in New York in October of 1773, settling on Sir Johnson's land the spring of 1774. William also joined the British army and settled in Charlottenburgh, Glengarry County, Ontario. Records for this family come from the catholic churches nearby. This family line is documented at http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

The brand new DNA results show a match for 35 out of 37 markers for direct male descendants of Angus and William Buy Cameron and a very very high percentage chance of a common ancestor within 15 generations.

The name Donald Daniel is not that common amongst Camerons in Ontario, nor as far as I can tell, among Camerons in Scotland. William and Angus' descendants are the only Ontario Camerons to have Donald Daniels (??true). And both William and Angus named their oldest sons Donald Daniel, suggesting their father was Donald Daniel (of course, they could have been cousins as well).

So here's a hypothesis I would love to hear comments on.

There was a Donald Daniel Cameron (1707-?) who was in Lochiels' regiment in Culloden who was from Ardnamurchan, Argyll who was transported to Jamaica or Barbados in 1747. His age is about right to be a parent of William and Angus. We also know that the McDonnells who organized the party of emigrants on the Pearl were Jacobites as well.

Other possibilities:
There are Donald Daniels in a region of Perthshire as well.
The other loyalist Camerons who settled in Ontario were from Glen Moriston, Glen Nevis, the Clunes farm on the Lochiel estate in Lochaber, and Rannoch in Perthshire

Does anyone have any clues that might help with this puzzle or other DNA information that could help untangle the Camerons of Stormont and Glengarry?

Thanks!
Kim

Locations: Ardnamurchan, Argyll, Scotland; Jamaica; Glengarry and Stormont Counties, Ontario, Canada; Johnstown, New York, USA
Given names of Camerons: Donald Daniel, Angus, William, Alexander
Associated Surnames: McDonnell