Robert LOONEY

                   killed by Indians
                  

                   killed by Indians at Reed Creek in 1756.
                  

                   killed by Indians
                  

                   killed by Indians
                  

                   killed by Indians
                  

                   Captured by Indians at Ft Vause on June 25, 1756

The following is from Elizabeth Looney in her 80s and sharp as a tack.  Her address is 2800 Woodley Rd NW;  Washington DC 20008-4139.  Elizabeth sent me this information she copied years ago in the Washington DC Library of Congress:
The Looney family is descended from Milesius, King of Spain, through the line of his son, Heber.  The funder of the family was Cormac Con, son of Oliliol Ollum, King of Munster.  A.D. 177, and Savis, his consort, daughter of Com of the Hundred Battles, King of Ireland, A.D. 148. 

The Ancient name was Loinsighes and signified "Mariner".  The possessions were also chiefs of Muniter Loney, a district known as the Muniter Loney Mountain, County of Tyrone, and the Looneys were Lords of Cinel  Moen in that District.

I believe the above may have been from Rooney's GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF IRISH NAMES.

Rooney further states:  The tribes were also in the County Antrim, and this was near the East Coast of Ireland, and on a clear day you could see the Isle of Man, settling like a pearl out in the Irish Sea.  There was an immigration to the Isle of Man as early as 1050 A.D. at which time the family is found on the Tax Books.  The family lived in various of the North Couties, and the old Looney home still owned by memebers of the family is three miles south of Ramsey, and now known as the Ballagilley Farm.  

The Looneys were an old Manx family and are found on the Tax Rolls on the Isle of Man in various forms of spelling.  In 1054 it was Maclewney; in 1603 it was MacLowney which according to Celt dialect would be correct.

MOORE'S MANX NAMES, page 41, says: "Looney is contracted from O'Lunigh; Gilechrist O'Lunigh was Lord of the Cinel Moen,A.D. 1090.

See:  DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN FAMILY NAMES OF E.C. Smith, which gives:  Looney-Irish, a warrior, descendant of Luinnoach, Merry or Vovial.
This source states that the Looneys came to the Isle of Man at an early date.  It is said they were Kings of Munster, a division of Ireland, and the tradition is that they are of the Earl of Derby family on the Isle of Man.  One source says the family dates back to 1050 on the Island.  The first recorded date is 1512.

He states that on Ballagilley Farm, Isale of Man, about 1704 was born Robert Looney.  They lived in Sheading of Kirk Lonan and Kirk Maughold which adjoin.

The name Looney comes from an old Irish name "Loughney" which means of the sea, thereby indicating the men followed the sea.  In England the name Looney was Lowney;  in Wales Llewne; in Ireland O'Looney.  One says ssearlier the Irish name was McGillowney, all of which no doubt is true as names have changed with the centuries, and in different countries.

The Book of Heraldry also says the Luna Family descends from Milesius, King of Spain.  Elizabeth Looney read this in the Tennessee State Library and failed to take down the writer and other pertinent information.

Check THE STORY OF THE IRISH RACE by Seumas MacManus, which is said to be one of the best Irish histories.  It contains some most interesting reading:  Chapter IC, Some Notable Milesian Royalties and Chapter IX, Conn of the Hundred Battles.  He also says the Looneys were said to be kinds of Ulster.


IRISH PEDIGREES  VOL II    JamesDuffy & Co.Ltd.   ; 15 Wellington Quay, Dublin.:
Nov 17, 1558 Queen Mary died, and Elizabeth was proclaimed queen.  Henry VIII had granted hereditary lands of Tyrone, to Con. O'Neill, and his son, Shane O'Neill, surrounded himself with a Scotch bodyguard.  He made the Earl of Tyrone O'Neil of Tyrone, Captain of Tyrone and Lord of the North of Ireland.  After a stormy career old Tyrlougj Luinagh was elected "O'Neill" at the death of --------
N.B. the Luinagh may have been the original family spelling.  It is the oldest we have of the Irish inhabitants, though O'Looney and Looney is given as early as 1050 on records in Isle of Man, the date of Irish immigration movement to Isle of Man.  The McGilleweney of that date evidently was bestowed because of the family becoming tenants of eclesiastical lands, the Gil meaning servant, hence eventually the name taking the meaning "servant of the Lord".
                  

                   Captain at Ft. Chiswell by 1766

Distinguished citizen of Southwest Virginia and Sullivan County, North Carolina (later Tennessee)
                  

                   Captain during Revelotionary War  

Settled in Knox County, Tennessee