My Beach Family Tree

My name is Marion Beach and I started this site. This site was created using MyHeritage.com. This is a great system that allows us to create a private site for our family, build a family tree and share family photos. You have editing rights, so please correct any errors and add facts, pictures, etc.The Neely Clan is a collective for the different spellings of this group derived from the name Mac an Fhilidh (pronounced Mak onn Eely) meaning "Son of the Poet", originating in County Antrim (as differentiated from Clan Mac Conghaile from County Galway, some of whom share the surname MacNeely with variant spellings, although the two clans are not known to be related). It is believed that it is from this family group that the Neelys, Neeleys, Neillys, Nealys, etc. began to spread into other parts of Ulster, Ireland, Scotland, and England before the 16th century. Neelys remained around Londonderry and southern Co. Tyrone until after 1690. Shortly thereafter, Neelys began to emigrate from Ulster to America with the earliest waves of the Scots-Irish. The first went to Ulster and Orange Co, New York in the early 1700's. More Neelys from Ulster began arriving directly to Pennsylvania and other eastern states around 1730, then began moving south to Virginia and the Carolinas in the mid 1700's for new land. Immigration to America as well as Scotland, England, Canada, other parts of Ireland as well as other countries continued during the latter 1700's and then in the 1800's.