Last update: 10.25.2015

Please submit a paternal lineage outline including name, birth year, and birth location to the project managers if you have not done so. Use the format below of those that have submitted outlines. You are welcome and encouraged to include a summary of what you know of your branch history and passed on lore.

For privacy reasons the outlines have the year 1900 [or so] as the cut off year. However the whole point of the yDNA study is to establish the father to son connection back to the oldest known ancestor. yDNA is never wrong. The same cannot be said of historical documents and family lore. 

The O’Diomhain lineage -a Sept of the Clan O’Cahan was found to belong to the Irish-Scot yDNA haplogroup clade I-L126.

Participant Lines are:

49126

Ireland

Diamond Ballydullaghan, County Derry, Northern Ireland 

98070

Ireland

Diamond Kilrea, County Derry, Northern Ireland 

Nine generations of Erganagh Townland Diamond's Eldest sons naming pattern: Patrick > Peter > Patrick > Peter > Patrick etc. 

48662

Ireland

Neal1 Diamond b. 1764 Parish of Maghera, County Derry m. Rose Kearney 

John2 Diamond b.1809 Parish of Maghera, County Derry m. _______Mulholland 

Neal3 Diamond b. 1843, m. Betty Collins 

Neal4 Diamond b. 1893, m. Mollie McCloskey 

60901

Ireland to America- Ulster Co. New York

James1 Diamond April 1784, County Derry m. Jane McEldowney 

James F.2 Diamond b. abt. 1825 Ireland m. Rebecca Jane O’ Kane 

Joseph Edward3 Diamond b. Sept. 7, 1858 Kingston, Ulster Co., NY m. Ella May Hayes Francis 

Vincent4 Diamond 

Ireland to Colonial America The following (23932 and 25337) descend from Dominick Dimond who emigrated to Colonial America in the eighteenth century and settled in southwest and central Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

23932

Dominick1 Dimond/Diamond b. before 1755 m. ______ McLeas/McClees 

Matthew2 Dimond b. 1794, m. Phoebe Wierman 

Benjamin3 Millwright Dimond b. Jan. 10, 1817 Huntingdon Co., PA.m. Mary Jane Forbes 

Milo Ashton4 Dimond b. 1862, m. Eva Catherine Boyer 

Merrill Ray5 Dimond b. 1886, m. Mabel Maria Smith 

25337

Dominick1 Dimond/Diamond b. before 1755 m. ______ McLeas/McClees 

Matthew2 Dimond b. 1794, m. Phoebe Wierman 

Matthew Thornburg3 Dimond b. Nov. 26, 1819 Huntingdon Co., PA. m. Lydia Morgan b. 1822. 

Benjamin Franklin4 Dimond b. 1855 

Ireland to Colonial America The following (27805 and 28366) descend from Daniel S. Diamond who emigrated to Colonial America in the eighteenth century and settled in southwest and central Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

27805

This family line has lore of County Londonderry, Northern Ireland origin.

Daniel1 S. Diamond b. 1750-55 d. 1827 Fayette Co., PA. m. Christina (?) 

Daniel S.2 Diamond Jr. b. 1798 Georges, Fayette Co., PA.m. Susan Moser 

Daniel3 Diamond b. 1836, PA m. Martha E. Blackwood 

James O.4 Diamond b.1872, m. Malissa Anne Criss 

Lloyd Astor5 Diamond b. 1898 m. Mabel McCoy 

28266

Daniel1 S. Diamond b. 1750-55 d. 1827 Fayette Co., PA. m. Christina. 

Henry2 Diamond b. abt. 1800 Georges, Fayette Co., PA. m. Elizabeth Roderick

Daniel Walter3 Diamond b. 1830, m. Emily Thompson 

Daniel Walter4 Diamond Jr. b. 1865,m. Aria May Porter 

Roy S.5 Diamond  b. 1895, m. Izola Catherine Whipple 

54786

Belfast to Canada

Peter1 Diamond b. 1831, Rasharkin, County Antrim, Ireland m.1 Mary Jane Wade m.2 Annie Dunlop 

John2 Diamond b. 22, April 1897 Whiteabby, Antrim, Ireland m. Mary Elizabeth McGinney 

N15159

Ireland to US-1912

Henry1 Diamond b. 1813 Crossland, Swatragh, County Derry, Northern Ireland m. Margaret b. 1812 

Henry2 Diamond b. 1841 Crossland, Swatragh, County Derry, Northern Ireland m. Martha b. 1858 Sons James and Henry to Australia. Edward to US in 1912 

Edward3 Diamond b. 1894 Crossland, Swatragh, County Derry, Northern Ireland 

76417

Ireland

Thomas1 Dimond of Derrygarve, County Derry 

James2 Diamond b. c 1844 County Derry m. Eliza McLernon 

Patrick3 Diamond b. 1881 Dumbartonshire, Scotland m. Margaret Wilson 

Joseph Diamond4 Belfast 

B8519

Ireland to America

Felix1 Diamond: b. Ireland d. 10 Jun 1885 IrelandFelix1 Diamond: b. Ireland d. 10 Jun 1885 Ireland

James2  Diamond: Born 1856 BallyMackpeake/Magherafelt/Bellagy, Ireland

Peter3 Francis Diamond April 25,1896 County Derry (Magherafelt) (lived in Philadelphia-died in Belfast)

James4 Patrick Diamond Philadelphia, PA

103726

Ireland to America

John1 W. Dimond aka William Alonzo Vineyard b. November 4, 1878 Harrisonville, Monroe Co., IL m. Anna Ragsdale 

Samuel2 Stanley James Vineyard b. January 29, 1903 Kaskaskia, IL m. Rosetta Olga Wiese 

Descendants of William Alonzo Vineyard are linked to the Derry Lineage by high resolution 67 marker match. Research has found that Alonzo's mother, Margaret M. Shepherd Reynolds had a son by a previous marriage. From Portrait & Biographical Record of Jackson Co. IL, 1894: "JOHN H. REYNOLDS, a farmer.............. Mr. Reynolds was united in marriage with Margaret M. , daughter of Jesse and Sallie Shepard. Mrs. Reynolds is the mother of a son, John W. Diamond, by her first husband. While the father of John1 W. Diamond aka William Alonzo Vineyard is unknown there is a high degree of probability of a close relationship between the Colonial American migrant Daniel S. Diamond. Though a link to yet to be defined branch is possible." 

200442

Ireland to America

Settled in Alton, Madison County Ill.

Peter1 Dimond b. 1825 Ireland d. 6, Jun 1855 Alton, Madison County, Ill m. Ellen[nee?] 

Bernard2 H. Diamond b. 25, Dec 1850 Alton, Madison County, IL d. 2 Jan 1907 Alton, Ill m. Maggie Moran 1876

Harry3 Edward Diamond b. 12, Oct 1885 MO. d. 1948 St. Louis, MO. m. #2 Blanche Archambault