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The Gillespie DNA Project has tested descendants of Gillespie families that resided in Lancaster and Washington Co. PA in the early 1700s. DNA results proved that both families are related with a common ancestor that may have lived in Ulster. These families also matched another Gillespie line that went to Rowan Co. NC and another that remained in Ireland. These families belong to Gillespie DNA Group 1 in the I1 haplogroup.
Lancaster Co. PA was the arrival point for many of the Ulster Scots. The Gillespie DNA Project at Family Tree DNA is interested in obtaining the DNA of more of those Gillespie families for comparison.
www.familytreedna.com search under SURNAME PROJECTS - GILLESPIE.
Contact Connie McKenzie - Gillespie and Macpherson DNA Projects Administrator for more information
lairdkinna@yahoo.com
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This is part of message #264 from July 6, 1998 that mentions Caronsburg, PA.
>>>I do have information on Lanc. Co. PA GILLESPIE. The following was recorded by my grandfather in a family bible. "Holy Bible" of William Holliday ca BEF 1812. This is a partial entry.
II. William Holliday Jr. b. December 21, 1786, d. September 6, 1862 m. Margaret Gillespie (although her mother's gravestone reads Rebecca Galespy of Canonsburg, Penna.) Buried Hill Presbyterian Church Cemetery near Canonsburg, Penna. Margaret Gillespie's father was James Gillespie of Salisbury Township, Lanc Co. and of Canonsburg, Penna general area. Margaret Gillespie Holliday was born February 22, 1793 and died June 24, 1864. They were married June 23, 1814. William Holliday served in Pequea Valley Rangers (Lanc Co area about the time of War of 1812. Moved circa 1837 from Lanc Co to Canonsburg general area in Washington Co., Penna.<<<
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