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L. C. Spears on July 6 2008 wrote,
George, Do you see a connection between Andrew Speer and the Braintree, Massachusetts Spear whom you had previously mentioned? Who is the familiar connection between the two?
No, I don’t know of a connection. I mis-spoke! Andrew Speer, b. 1640 of Somerset, Maryland, and George Spear, b.1612 of Braintree, Massachusetts, are from two different family’s. Sometime I do things from memory. I apologies for the confusion.
This is how the DNA query should have read;
#3a.) L. C. Spears, has been DNA tested and his results are also posted with my results, he descends from Andrew Speer, b. 1640 of Somerset, Maryland. He has the likelihood of a 99% chance of sharing the same Ancestor.
#3b.) W. S. Spear, has been DNA tested and his results are also posted with my results, he descends from George Spear, b. 1612 who settled in Braintree, Mass. He has the likelihood of a 99% chance of sharing the same Ancestor.
Marcia McClure,
Anything found on the I1c Haplogroup, is of our family line. I suppose it will be awhile before all the submitters of various records, who've posted them over the Internet, make the change to the new classification of I2b. Most Researchers probably aren’t even aware of the change, this just happened Jan 2008. As I said, “We had for many years been in Haplogroup I1c. I1c was recently re-categorized as I2b.” So in reality your research was not in vain.
Marcia McClure wrote,
George, before I close I'd like to point out one error which caused me a bit of confusion,
You mention a 15th century grandfather in your posting and on this page http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=malise&id=I976
Captain John Speer (1585 - 1649), in the last note, is said to have relocated in "the middle of the 15th century." If I'm not mistaken the 1600's were the 17th century. I'm guessing that it's one of those things that you have looked at so much that you don't question it, but it's a 200 year difference.
Marcia, Yes a bit confusing, I will make the needed adjustments. What I did was quote a reference found in the book listed below. These are the proceedings of the Fourth Congress at Atlanta, GA., April 28 to May 1, 1892
THE SCOTCH-IRISH IN AMERICA. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE SCOTCH-IRISH SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 1892
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=iHgoAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA208&lpg=PA208&dq=The+Speers+came+originally+from+the+Orkney+Islands&source=web&ots=ICFn7iDacI&sig=JcWHgee-m-NCIPnSM__lfcbkM_Y&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPP13,M1
Quote: "The Speers came originally from the Orkney Islands. Col. John Speer, the ancestor of the Georgia family, went from there to Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland, about the middle of the fifteenth century, and married the rich Miss Maxwell, and led the "Caledon," or Scotch horse regiment, under William III."
The family mentioned in this book is that of; Wade E. Speer.
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/p/e/Wade-E-Speer/index.html
This Quote is from Wade E. Speer website; “John Speer born 1595 married Miss Maxwell, an heiress 1614. Her father Sir John Maxwell, second son of Robert Maxwell of Palloch. (Robert Maxwell was) Bishop of Orkney 1525--sold out 1614 migrated to Ireland purchased estate called Kenneard (now known as Caledon) in County Tyrone Removed later to Mt. Carron 10 miles away.” Wade's Source; 1979 Sally Speer Signor Goldsmith Letter
I hope this helps,
George Speer email: genealogy(at)speer.org
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