Re: DNA of William Farrar of VA is Sarmatian
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Re: DNA of William Farrar of VA is Sarmatian
patillo patillo 3/30/12
I think that your assumption about Abraham Farrow is correct.
however, it does not appear that Abraham Farrow is a Farrar.
Or at least not descended from William Farrar of Va, (1618, Neptune, Cecily widow Jordan, Farrars Island).If there is a kinship it reaches back to old England some 24 to 28 generations. But they haven't tested for SNP Z93. It turns out that testing positive for this SNP is definitive proof that one is a cousin, regardless of surname.I've asked that those in the project test for the SNP, but the two Farrows in the project have not responded. Perhaps fear that they will test negative and thus have the bubble burst.
One of our members claims to have a common ancestor in William of Virginia, but DNA results so far, indicate a common ancestry between 24 and 30 generations ago, about the time of the Norman Conquest,if not before.
No SC Farrows have joined the project yet.
I'm pretty much convinced now, that "documentation" is not reliable, too many people fill in the blanks to arrive at a desire outcome.Too many surnames are so popular and common within families that it is almost impossible to trace ancestry with certainty, factor in the fact that marriages, births and deaths were not recorded, except perhaps in parish or church registers, and most of those have disappeared.
Anyway there is a Farrow in the project whose earliest known ancestor is Abraham Farrow of Prince William Co, VA 1730.
at Y 37 he is at a genetic distance of 1, from a person whose earliest known ancestor was an Abraham Wilson, 1788 of Fauquier County
What I find interesting is that both Prince William and Fauguier county are in northern Virginia, Prince Williamand Fauquier county share boundaries.
Given that the Farrars of the James River were planters and farmers, and that the movement of these agrarian families was south and west towards new lands opening up, I seriously doubt that they migrated north in the face of an incoming tide of mostly German and Scots Irish migrants, themselves land hungry. Infact some of the early migrants who settled in northern Virginia, sold out their property and moved south, into places like Pittsylvania Co, Va and then after the 1783 Treaty of Paris, their families packed up and moved again into South Carolina and Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and all points west.
As regards murders. The only murder I'm familiar with is that of Britton Farrow in Lauderdale Co, Ala in 1842.
This Britton Farrow is different from a Brittain Farrow of Clay Co, Ala who also shows up as a Brittain Farrar in other census.His grandson, Thomas Lynard Farrar (Farrow) apparently fathered a son with Josephine Lambert. The child was born in 1880 (Thomas was a student in Randolph Co, Ala as was Josephine), in 1883 Josephine married a George Freeman, and the child was named William Barto Freeman. One of his descendants tested their DNA and it matches mine 36/37 Y DNA Segments.
Do you know of any SC Farrows that would be willing to join the Farrar Farrow DNA project?