Joseph Gowin/Gowan/Going/Goin
I am a descendant of Joseph Gowin b. 1758, d. 8-28-1822 who married Judith Pollard and whose parents are William and Anester.Joseph is my 4th Great Grandfather.
Through the services offered by FamilyTreeDNA, I have confirmed that my Y-Chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) Haplotype subclade is ‘Isles/Scotland’ and is indigenous to Scotland (specifically southwest Scotland) and has been there thousands of years (source: ISOGG).Y-DNA is passed from father to son along an all-male line.According to research, this Y-DNA branch-group is believed to be pre-Roman and members of the genetic admixture of those people identified as the 'Atlantic Celts'.It is possible that they arose in old Gaul {Spain/France} and represents the migration of Celts from that location. This fits the historical migration of Celtic tribes who are believed to have settled in Britain within this period and the movement of people at an earlier date after the last great ice melt (28,000 years ago).
This recent Y-DNA information, along with written records that connect me to Joseph within the GRF, provides 100% certainty that our progenitors are from Scotland.This information also matches a hand-written letter between two cousins (Joseph’s granddaughters) written in 1923 that state this family was from Scotland (specifically naming Glasgow) and they believed his daughter Nancy was born there, although we have records that would indicate otherwise.
Sound research has long confirmed that there is no written documentation (court, tax, birth, death, last will and testament, census, etc.) listing any member of the family as Mulatto, Indian, African, or free person of color to suggest Melungeon, Lumbee, or other heritage.Photographs of three of Joseph’s grandsons do not support this theory and now DNA along with written documentation for multiple generations confirms there is no connection.
Although at this time we are not able to connect this family within Scotland, the Y-DNA information provided above should constitute a high degree of certainty as to the origin of the family.I hope all family researchers will continue to perform sound due diligence and provide factual documented information about the family.Perhaps soon we will be able to discover the link between America and Scotland and document the emigration of this family.
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