Who was John George Hornigh?

Research by Henry Z. Jones Jr, a fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, has demonstrated that John George Hornigh, who arrived in England in 1709, was NOT the founder of the Kornegay family in North Carolina.  Hornigh was listed among the 1709 German Palatine arrivals in England at age 38 with his wife (age not given), two daughters (ages 12 and 10) and two sons (ages 8 and 2).  Several privately published manuscripts have stated that this was the original Kornegay family that came to North Carolina in 1710.  Jones’s research, however, published in his 1990 book THE PALATINE FAMILIES OF IRELAND has shown that John George Hornigh and his family settled in County Wexford, Ireland, where they became quite prominent.  This family’s name was most often spelled there as Hornick.

See:  Jones, Jr. 1990.

       Jones, Jr. and Rohrbach. 2002. Pages 1022-1023.