My name is Marion Beach and I started this site.This site was created using MyHeritage.com. This is to append my Beach Family Tree so that we can share family information and photos. As a member you have editing rights so if you see anything needing correctiion please correct or you can let me know & I will make the changes. If you have pictures to share we will all be glad.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.
