E. H. Cathey lists as children of Alexander and Margaret Cathey (of Clones Parish; both died in 1698):Jean, b. Abt 1665;John, b. Abt 1667;Margaret, b. Abt 1677;Katherine; b. Abt 1677;Ann, b. Abt 1679;{Mary Elizabeth, b. Abt 1684, married a John Brandon}James, CHR 3-Jul-1694. E. H. Cathey writes in the 2002 edition of “Cathey Kith and Kin”: James Cathey (BHC RN 401) and family (about 8 individuals total) arrived first, perhaps with the Brandons.  The earliest documented date for a Cathey in America was October 1, 1720.  According to record, James landed at Philadelphia.  He lived first, as far as known, in Milford Hundred, Cecil County, Maryland and then East Tottingham Township, Chester County PA.  Later, other groups would arrive. It is likely that many of the Cathey’s (including John Cathey’s daughters, Hannah and Maley) arrived in America as indentured servants, to pay for their transportation.  EHC estimates that about half of the Scotch-Irish immigrants came to America indentured. Billy Kennedy, "The Scots-Irish in the Carolinas, Causeway Press (1997), p. 162 : The Catheys.This family moved from C. Monagham in Ireland about 1718 and settled in south western Pennsylvania.  James Cathey is recorded in 1719 as owning land on the Delaware River in Cecil County, Maryland; by 1724 he resided in Chester County, Pennsylvania and in 1733 held 200 acres at Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania.  Five years later his son William owned 466 acres in the Beverly Manor of the Shenadoah Valley and by 1743 the Cathey Virginian land holdings (at Beverly Manor and Orange County) had reached 2,350 acres.  James and George Cathey moved to Rowan County, North Carolina in 1749, settling west of the Yadkin River in the area known as the "Irish Settlement".  The Catheys were a typical Scots-Irish Presbyterian family whose prosperity came about through sheer determination and hard work. R.W. Ramsey, “Carolina Cradle” (UNC Press, 1964). Pages 37-8 (see also “Cathey Kith and Kin”, 1969); “By the spring of 1749, the Irish settlement consisted of at least fourteen families, including those of James Cathey, George Cathey, ..” “with respect to the settlement process, few names carry more significance than that of James Cathey.  He and his son George were the leaders in what was probably the first English-speaking settlement to be established in North Carolina (or, indeed, in the entire South, exclusive of Virginia) so far from a navigable river. .. it was on George Cathey’s land that the settlers constructed the earliest known religious edifice west of the Yadkin - Thyatira Presbyterian church.”  By 1736, James and George were in Lancaster Co., the home of John Cathey (brother of James and father of Alexander Cathey).  John Cathey died in Lancaster county in 1743, whereupon his son Alexander joined the other Catheys in Virginia. .. Sometime prior to 1751, William Cathey died, leaving his land in the Shenandoah to an older brother (John) still living in Ireland.  The latter came to America to claim the land, but moved to North Carolina upon discovering that the rest of the family had done so. Re: James Cathey, from http://www.martygrant.com/gen/cathey.htm “My Cathey line begins with James Cathey, born ca 1680 in Ulster, Ireland. He and several of his siblings came to Pennsylvania (Lancaster and Chester Counties) before ca 1724. He and his wife Ann left there for Orange (later Augusta) Co, VA in the 1730's. They remained there until ca 1750 or so when they moved to Rowan Co, NC where he died in 1757, and Ann shortly afterwards”.http://www.tngenweb.org/maury/fgs/cathey.html