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 Timothy Kelley

I am currently trying to find any information on a man named Timothy Kelley. He is my great great..... grandfather. I am missing any information on his siblings and parents. I also have no idea where he was born. One website hints that he was born somewhere in Ireland so today I went to the family search wiki to find out a little bit about Ireland and here is a paragraph of what I learned:

Ireland is made up of two different countries, Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland. When England began settling Ireland, they began to change Irish laws. One law forbade the Irish to use prefixes such as O' or Mac in their surnames for a time causing many in the same family to have different last names. However, they usually named their first born son after the father's father, the second son after the mother's father, the third son after the father and so on, they did this with the daughters as well starting with the Mother's mother. If my Great+ grandfather was born in Ireland I should be able to find out a grandfather or father's name.