Our Early County Down Jam?son History - a little background and History

Go here for a look at our even earlier details of our particular Jam?son family history.

The Jam?sons, regardless of the various spellings and translations,[1] who share (match) the same Y-DNA profile have, so far, all come from Ulster Ireland. It is assumed that before that, they were from Scotland. However, for the most part, we do not exactly know where or when that was.

Since this most northern part of Ulster was largely undeveloped until after the beginning of the 17th century (Belfast was not even chartered as a city until 1613), we can assume our Jam?sons arrived as immigrants after that. One of the larger groups of these Ulster Jam?sons can be found in and around the Belfast area of County Down, especially in the Ard's Penisula. Because this area (particularly the north eastern part of the area around Belfast, known as the Ards Peninsula, in county Down is about as close to Scotland as it gets, about 235 miles. Only natural then that this area would have developed early on and quickly. Although this area may not have been the only area that handled immigrats from Scotland, it was certainly one that did and in large numbers. This included, not surprisingly many different Jam?son families, undoubtly some of which belong (DNA) with our particular Jam?son family. In fact we know of some Jam?sons that share (match) our other known Jam?sons living there and with traceable routs back to the 18th century