There are a few Jam?son families we think may belong to our particular Jameson family.[1] Unfortunately we are not able to prove this, either way, through traditional means or by YDNA testing.[2]
Listed below (with a link) are those we think might be part of our Jameson family.
Edward Jamisone (1624-1704) family of Midlothian, Scotland. Edward Jamisone was a Presbyterian minister at a difficult and dangerous time for these matters in Scotland. He survived and died there in 1704. His children (Thomas, Edward, John, Margaret) with wife Magdelene Keir, were familiar names (and appropriate birth dates) to us in Ulster and early New Hampshire. We do not know what happened to these children.
Hugh Jamieson (1852-1907) family of Ireland and Chester County Pennsylvania. This family emigrated in 1873, from the Bann Valley area of Ulster, where our Jameson family was living a hundred and fifty years earlier. Hugh and Alexander (a brother) were very common names in our Ulster Jameson family.
Robert Jameson (c.1812-c.1864) family of Ireland. Descendants from this family emigrated in to America in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This family was living in the area where our Jameson family was living a during the early and middle 1800s, including in Coleraine. Hugh was a common name in this and in our Ulster Jameson families.
James Jameson (c.1610/28-1696 family of Scotland. Descendants from this family emigrated in to America about 1647. This family was an early immigrant family apparently from Scotland, who first lived in Boston and the surrounding area, eventually moving to New Hampshire and beyond. The relationship with this Jameson family is not completely known, although assumed close. There are several (at least 12) known autosomal (atDNA) "Ancestry" test '
matches' with this family and a memberJAJ) of the early New Hampshire Jamesons alone. A Y-DNA test will need be done with a male descendant of this family (if one can be found) to conclusively confirm a connection by way of any other "Jameson" family lineage.
The Worchester (Massachusetts) Jamesons? We know there was a settlement in 1718 at Worchester, MA, of Irish immigrants, similar to that in nearby Londonderry, NH and in Maine. These were all part of a flotilla of ships in what was the most important emigrations from Ulster, Ireland of that time. What we don't know is if there was any "Jamesons" in this group, as there were in those other locations, at that time.
Maybe Jamesons