John Mac Teige O'Kellia

Not the father of David O’Killea. Y DNA testing of descendants do not match.

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/O'Killia-1

John Mac Teige O'Kelly was direct pateral line generation 37 from Mhaine Mor first King of the Ui Mhaine. Excerpt from O'Donovan:

"36. Teige O' Kelly, of Gallagh, son of Conor. It appears from Patent Roll, 10 Jac. I. p. 4, d. 30, " That on the 20th December, 1612, the wardship of Teige O'Kelly, son and heir of Cornelius, otherwise Connor Ne Garrogh O'Kelly, late of Gallagh, county Galway, Gentleman, deceased, was granted to Lady Ursula Bourke, widow of Sir Thomas Bourke, Knight, to rear him in the Protestant religion and English habits, and in Trinity College, Dublin, from the twelfth to the eighteenth year of his age."

He married, first, Mary, daughter of Henry, son of Sir Hubert Burke, and had issue Donogh Reagh O'Kelly, of Gallagh. Secondly, he married Julia, daughter of Sir Dermot O'Shaughnessy, and had issue John O'Kelly, and a daughter Margaret, wife of Colonel Charles Kelly, ninth Lord of the manor of Screen, the author of Macarice Excidium. His son John Mac Teige O'Kelly married Anne, daughter of Dermot Daly, of Killimor, Esq., and had issue Donogh O'Kelly."

Research Notes

regarding father of David O'Killia Note that John's son was named Donogh which is normally anglicized to Denis. The Irish version of David would normally be Daithi.

The family appears in Cape Cod records under several phonetic spellings. A claim on Rootsweb is that David's parents were Teige O'Killia and Ann Daly, and that he was born in Gallagh, Ireland. The files agree David and Jane were married in Yarmouth, but not when. The children's birth order seems to be inferred from the will.

He was born in 1619 according to a marriage record (index?): [1]

If their son David O'Killia was a war orphan, then at least one of these parents was presumably still alive in 1649 (when the war began). If so, them dying at sea in 1640 wouldn't make sense (much less being en route to America).

23 October 2023 (UTC) Y-DNA evidence at FTDNA does not support John Mac Teige being the father of David O'Killia (abt.1640-1697). Self Identified descendants of David O'Killia all are grouped in the Kelley surname project in group x29. They do not match Walter Lionel O'Kelly (1921-2017) Count Walter is a documented descendant of John MacTeigh's grandfather Conchobhar nag Cearhbach (O'Killia) O'Kelly (abt.1540-abt.1612)

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References

1. https://www.familytreedna.com/public/kelley?iframe=yresults R1b Group 14: [confirmed L21+ DF49+ DF23+ Z2961+ Ui Mhaine (Ireland R-BY3446) William Boy O'Kelly's 7th grandson (The Count)
2. https://www.familytreedna.com/public/kelley?iframe=yresults (page 2) R1b Group X29 (L21+) David O'Kellia Ireland R-M269