MOODY's of Marion Co., SC (or other areas) may link to my Moody's ...Help
I have recently found myself researching the southern Moody's of Marion Co., SC and due to the overwhelming commonality of surnames linked with those Moody's and the Moody family that my Ydna cousins share ranging from Scotland to Nor. Ireland to Canada to New England to PA to NC to TN to MS, AL, ARK and all around the globe including Australia, I have reason to believe that some of these SC Moody's may link to our Ydna Moody cousins as well.
If anyone here knows of any Scottish link to their Moody families from the Marion Co. area, I would be most interested in any reply of info you could provide.You can see my own Numerous postings to the MOODY page here at GenForum regarding the links between so many of our families in Pennsylvania that link to the Moody's of North Carolina and TN and the other places mentioned above.
My own Moody family happened to make land-fall in New England sometime before 1774.The 5 other Moody's with whom I share Ydna with, their Moody's came from Co. Londonderry, Ireland (Thomas Moody b.c1710) and landed at New Castle, DE in c1735 with the McQUISTON/McCuiston/McQuestion(lots of different spellings) family.
Another's went to Nova Scotia perhaps as a Loyalist family but I think they were just some of the "Planters" that took over lands in Nova Scotia after the Acadian Exiles of 1755 when they were luring folks to come to Nova Scotia with offers of free lands that had already been cleared etc.
Many of the Scots from SC went to Nova Scotia so I have read and some of them went to places like Truro and Lunenburg (an area where some of our genealogy linkingfamilies have now been found).,
There were a LOT of Scots transported out of Scotland to the Carolina's in the 1600's and 1700's and since I am new to researching this area for any of my possible MOODY relatives, I am hoping that someone here might have done more studies on their own Moody families and can share some of their info with me.
Some of the Surnames that are appearing in our group of 6 matching Ydna Moody families are - Crawford, McLaughlin, McQuiston, Watson, Herron/Herren, Carmichael, McCallum, Wilson, Hamilton, Anderson, Allen, Ledlie, White, Donald, Ewing, Sproull, McGranahan, Phinney/Finney/Findley, Bell/Beal, Thompson/Thomson, Gardner, and on and on it goes.
The majority of the Other Surnames that link to our Moody's are of Scottish origins and some of these lines we have traced back to Ayrshire, Scotland and Fifeshire, Scotland. While these are not all conclusive, there is overwhelming evidence and very strong documented genealogies to back this up.
We are a small group of Moody's who do Not match ydna to any of the "English" Moody's so far. The English line of Moody's who have tested their Ydna are the largest group represented within our Moody Ydna Surname Project.
Again, we have Not matched to any of them so far.
Our genetic line is showing that we are of the Norse Vikings who came out of Norway and went to the Orkney Isles of Scotland and to Northern Ireland.We may be among those Norse Vikings who settled in Dublin, Ireland Very Early on.
However some of the oldest Norse artifacts found from various Archaelogical(spelling?) digs have been found in the Orkney Isles of Scotland. The only (so far) other place where artifacts any older than those; were found in Norway.
(info I read in a book publ. in 2002 on the Vikings).
The MOODIE family who lived in Hoy, Orkney claims to be of Norse lineage from the Vikings who ruled over the Orkney Isles from their era.So far, our small group of Moody's are the only ones to be termed of the Ydna Haplotype I1a-N (N meaning Norse) by the foremost authority on Haplotype I's to date, Dr. Ken Nordtvedt who has done extensive amounts of ydna research on the Haplogroup "I" folks.
It appears from what those of us who have been diligently researching our roots for many years (me for over 25 years), that we have a connection to these Orkney Moodie's.Most all of the names associated with the ancient Moodie's of the Orkney's, Fifeshire and Ayrshire, Scotland, are found within our genealogies.
Photographs compared from members of my own family to those of the Orkney Moodie's share very similar facial features and stature (they were not a very tall bunch of men).
During the huge immigration of the Ulster-Scots to America from Nor. Ireland, many of these families were separated as boats were filled to capacity and many family members had to wait for the next available ship to take them to some port in America.This is seen by the vast number of articles posted in old newspapers of family members searching for one another once they landed in America.
Some caught ships sailing for the Carolina's and VA while others landed in Boston and later in the 1800's many of them went to Canada.
Many of the Scots sailed directly from Scotland to ports in America.
Many of the very early Scots sent to America were from Banishments from Scotland due to religious problems or some crimes committed by these folks. Most of them were sent to the Carolina's and VA from Scotland and from what I have read in David Dobson's wonderful books, few of them were sent to New England. Many of them were banished to Barbados and Jamaica too but when their imprisonments were up or by some means of escape, many of them came to America.
My own 5th grt. grandfather James MOODY shows up for the first time on record that I am aware of, in York Co., Maine when he married my 5th grt. grandmother Elizabeth DONALD. Her family was of Scottish origins as well (of Clan Donald).
There is much to tell, but I will end this now as its getting quite lengthy.
If anyone can share any info on their SC Moody's who may have come there from Scotland or immigrated there from Nor. Ireland (which is where 4 of our Ydna Moody cousins families came from...Co. Londonderry, Ire.), I would be most greatful.
You can also post to the Moody page as I am there much more frequently than here.
Thank You for any help at all.