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