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Following hundreds of years of frustration by historians, genealogists both professional and amateur, a British link has been found for the early Colonial Period Churchills of New England.
CHURCHILL Y- DNA PROJECT REPORT:
Our Churchill Y-DNA Genesis Project is actively searching for Churchills in England who descend from known 15th through 17th Century English family groups. About three months ago we made contact with Churchill descendants of the 17th – 18th Century Wareham, Dorset Churchill family and descendants of the nearby 17th Century Colliton Churchills of the Dorchester area. Y-DNA Signatures have now been determined and evaluated.
A Wareham Churchill who tested was an EXACT MATCH to the American Plymouth family indicating that John Churchill who first appeared in the American Plymouth Colony in 1643 (the progenitor of the American Plymouth Churchills) was quite closely related to the English Wareham Churchill family of Dorset, England. They very likely had a common ancestor in the 16th century, and if not the 16th century, then almost certainly in the 15th century.
Members of the American Colonial period Connecticut and Manhattan Churchill families are close relatives to the Plymouth Churchills. Thus they also originate from the same English family.
THIS DOES NOT MEAN that John Churchill of the Plymouth Colony was himself from the Wareham area. What it means is that the John Churchill who first appeared in American Plymouth Colony records in August of 1643 and the English Churchill who would have come to settle in Dorset (possibly at Wareham, Dorset) in the 17th Century were from the same family group and that the two Churchills had a common ancestor.
We are currently looking for Churchills worldwide, including Wareham and Colliton Churchills, who are interested in testing. If you either are, think you are or know a Churchill from one of these family groups or from Dorset or Devon please contact us.
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