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From Roberta De Voss ([email protected]) 28 Apr. 2004

According to family tradition, Great Britain was the original home of the family and there are a number of legends to that effect. The most general of these is that advanced by Hon. Day Otia Kellogg, formerly US Consul at Glasgow, Scotland, one of the earliest collectors of Kellogg data. He relates the tradition that the Kellogs were partisans of James VI, of Scotland, and came with him to England (when he ascended the throne of Great Britain as James I), and remained there until their settlement in New England. He suggested that the name was derived from two Gaelic words "Kill", a cemetery, and "Loch" a lake -- that is, the "Family of the Lake Cemetery" and as a result of his statement, the believ that the family is of Scotish origin is now widespread".

The earliest home of the Kelloggs was Essex County, which at the time was a center of Puritan activity. The name first appears in Debden public records. The town "lies about forty miles north of London, sixteen miles south of cambridge, and three miles east of Newport." p3. Source: The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New world by Hopkins, T.