thank you Audrey Tioraidh an drasda, Tori - [email protected] Searching- COUNTS(Crouch, Sartain,Williams,Raper, Martin), HANCOCK(Adams, Abbott, Shepperd, Leach,Imel,Speck, Sprunger), MCNIEL(Gaddy,Brown,Lindsey,Mason,Moon)CAREY(Hancock, Catterton,Gibson,Dodder(Dobson),Leach), and any family connections. >From: "Audrey Shields Hancock" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [HANCOCK-L] Connecting these HANCOCK lines--Chart 26, 3, etc. >Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:10:10 -0500 > >Sure, I have an uncle with a middle name of Creager after the maiden name >of >my grandmother, his mother and thus his CREAGER ancestors. > >Audrey > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: tori counts [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 5:07 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [HANCOCK-L] Connecting these HANCOCK lines--Chart 26, 3, >etc. > > >Audrey, > Could that Surname/middle name have been carried over into later years? >A >few of my HANCOCKS have such unusual middle names. I've always had the >thought it could be due to surnames. Tillman, Bowen, Newton,,,, > > >Tioraidh an drasda, >Tori - [email protected] >Searching- COUNTS(Crouch, Sartain,Williams,Raper, Martin), HANCOCK(Adams, >Abbott ,Fisher ,Ford, Shepperd, Leach, Imel, Speck, Sprunger,Tuey), >MCNIEL(Gaddy, Brown, Lindsey, Mason, Moon)CAREY(Hancock, Catterton, Gibson, >Dodder(Dobson),Leach), and any family connections. > > > > > > >From: "Audrey Shields Hancock" <[email protected]> > >Reply-To: [email protected] > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: [HANCOCK-L] Connecting these HANCOCK lines--Chart 26, 3, etc. > >Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 17:24:20 -0500 > > > >Hi, Bob, > >I need more testees from the BENJAMIN HANCOCK (WF, MARY BEADLES) line as > >testees, first to determine if there is common DNA to at least connect my > >John to that family, then I need to prove that Benjamin and Mary are >truly > >his parents which based upon much circumstantial evidence seems to point >to > >that conclusion. > > > >Yes, merging these lines may never happen, but we'll give it the ole >school > >boy try! Well, I was always interested in the fact that you had an >ADAMS, > >BROCK, & DAVIS in your listings of surnames. I now think that (Capt.) >John > >may have had the middle name of Adams and his son's middle name, as > >Alexander. Based upon how children were named in those days, it would > >indicate an ancestor bore the surname of ADAMS, and sometimes marriages > >occurred with same families to other connecting families. Then I have a > >William Hancock (believed s/o Benjamin & Mary) who is believed to have > >married Jemima BROCKMAN (in marriage records as Jemima BROCK), dau/o > >BROCKMAN & GRAVES. Then I have John DAVIS mar 1690 Stafford Co., VA to > >Susanna MATHENY and had dau, Susanna Davis who married a Bartlett, who >had > >a > >BARTLETT dau who married a GRAVES and they had Nancy GRAVES who married > >(Capt.) John HANCOCK. > > > >Just throwing out names in case anyone sees something that will "ring a > >bell" in connecting these HANCOCK families. > > > >Audrey > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > >Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 3:44 PM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: [HANCOCK-L] Family lines with same Y-DNA--Chart 26 & 3 & > >Update > > > > > >Audrey- > > > >I have come to the conclusion that wedding our lines will be like winning > >the > >lottery. If we assume Jean and I have correct data and that yours is > >correct, > >all we can do is fit the two pieces and hope the bond holds. > > > >I have data back to William, etc and have seen your data for years and > >never > >thought we were the same line. (Arvil looked pretty hard also.) The big > >block > >for me is that I was convinced we would never find an easy answer so >maybe > >digging harder? > > > >I spent my working career in technical research. One way to find the > >correct > >answer is to pick the end result you want and then prove you are right. > >(Also > >start in the middle and you can go either way.) I think the Johns and > >Benjamins must be the solution. > > > >We need the Rosetta Stone. BobHop > > > >Visit our home page http://bobhopkins0.tripod.com/ > > > > > >Major family names- Abel, Adams, Anders, Bellisfield, Brock, Byers, >Davis, > >Dement, Field, Guffey, Hancock, Hockaday, Hopkins, Irvine, McClanahan, > >Scarbrough, Shipley, Strother, Stonestreet, Wade, Wampler, Westlake > > > > > >==== HANCOCK Mailing List ==== > >If you have a HANCOCK Genealogy Homepage, and would > >like to have it listed on our Links page, send the URL to the > >list, or to: [email protected] > > > > > > > > > >==== HANCOCK Mailing List ==== > >Check out our HANCOCK Project World Wide at: > >http://members.aol.com/heatherjvw/Hancock/ > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >MSN 8: Get 6 months for $9.95/month. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup > > >==== HANCOCK Mailing List ==== >Check out our HANCOCK Project World Wide at: >http://members.aol.com/heatherjvw/Hancock/ > > > > >==== HANCOCK Mailing List ==== >This is a closed list. 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