Perrys of WV?
I'm very new to all this and I haven't yet been able to piece even the past 200 years together very well. Two big questions:
I find Perry families in Mason and Cabell counties, WV, from the mid 1800s on. Are they related? The counties are right next to each other.
And what became of the Perrys of Mason County after say 1930? Do I have any 2nd, 3rd or 4th cousins somewhere? People had such big families back then.
I'm descended from Nathan Perry (1816-1887) of Greenbrier County, through his son William Alva Perry, my great-grandfather. From what I've found through familysearch.org, William moved to Mason County around 1880 where he started a family. (Actually two: his first wife died and he did it all again.) There were Perrys already in Mason County then, perhaps they were related somehow.
One thing I can share is that according to my spit test through 23andme.com my paternal haplogroup is "R1b1b2, a subgroup of R1b1," and one thing I'm wondering is if I'm a Perry by blood or if there was an adoption or "illegitimacy" a few generations back there somewhere.
Anyway. Any info anybody can give me would be very much appreciated. I'm intensely curious about my family's history. I didn't get to learn much about it when I was growing up -- my father was an only surviving child and I never met any Perry cousins or any of my grandfather's siblings.
Thanks,
David A. Perry
born 1963 in Baltimore, MD
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