Hello Stephanie, If you are looking for COBBs in Norfolk, there is a whole battallion of them who are descended from Edmund Cobb and Rebecca COLE, at Morley St Botolph. Edmund died in 1821. They had 20 children, so there are people of COBB descendancy all over the world. Sadly, my ancestry is through their eldest daughter, Rebecca, who married Charles CALLOW, so I can't offer any DNA, but I'm sure there are lots of "real" COBBs around in various places. Mostly, they are descended from Edmund's son, Stephen. If I can be of more help let me know. Rita Sheridan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephanie Ray" <netnuevo@gmail.com> To: <norfolk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 6:32 PM Subject: [NFK] COBB surname DNA project > The Cobb & Cobbs surname DNA project is well along, but currently it > has a focus on the American descendants of English immigrants. > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cobb/ > > So far, we have found roughly nine genetically distinct families > bearing the name, including the following: > > Descendants of Ambrose Cobbs of Kent and Virginia > Descendants of Joseph Cobb of London and Isle of Wight, Virginia > Descendants of Nicholas Cobb of London and Isle of Wight, Virginia > "Elder" Henry Cobb of Barnstable, Massachusetts > > I myself am of the Joseph Cobb line. Evidently, he was a dissident and > puritan, and named his three sons Joseph, Pharaoh, and Benjamin, as in > the biblical story Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors. I believe that > he may have been from Norfolk (see > http://www.one-name.org/profiles/cobb.html). > > At this time we are seeking participants from Ye Olde Country to help > us learn more about the name and its distribution. One primary > question is whether all nine lineages are still extent in England, or > whether some have died out (or, for that matter, that there are ones > that we have no evidence of here in the US). > > We are working with both Ancestry 149/179USD > (http://www.tinyurl.com/cobbdna) and FTDNA 169/268/359USD > (http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/cobb/results). We would greatly > appreciate having this information passed along to any biological > males bearing the Cobb name! > > Thank you, > Stephanie > > Admin Cobb surname FTDNA > Guild of One Name Studies #5587 > >

Rita, hi, thank you so much for your reply! It is a real thrill to actually meet someone still living in Norfolk. I live in California, in the San Francisco bay area at this time. Ok, one nice thing is that you only need two (or at most three) men out of each family group to provide a sample (the third may be needed as a tie-breaker in case the first two do not match for some reason, perhaps because of, ahem, "a paternity event"). Those two (or three) should be enough to establish a baseline set of DNA for that particular family. That is good because, while the tests are relatively inexpensive, they are by no means free! The cheapest one (33 markers through Ancestry) is 149USD. If someone is willing to submit a sample, but doesn't have the funds, we can pass the hat around and collect the funds to pay for the test. Do you know any living Cobb men yourself? I was going to do a mailing to all the Cobbs I could find living in Norfolk according to 192.com, but I think a local person doing the asking would be much better! Best regards, Stephanie On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Rita Sheridan <ras@sheriwin.plus.com> wrote: > > Hello Stephanie, >  If you are looking for COBBs in Norfolk, there is a whole battallion of > them who are descended from Edmund Cobb and Rebecca COLE, at Morley St > Botolph.  Edmund died in 1821.  They had 20 children, so there are people of > COBB descendancy all over the world.  Sadly, my ancestry is through their > eldest daughter, Rebecca, who married Charles CALLOW, so I can't offer any > DNA, but I'm sure there are lots of "real" COBBs around in various places. > Mostly, they are descended from Edmund's son, Stephen. > If I can be of more help let me know. > Rita Sheridan > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stephanie Ray" <netnuevo@gmail.com> > To: <norfolk@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 6:32 PM > Subject: [NFK] COBB surname DNA project > > >> The Cobb & Cobbs surname DNA project is well along, but currently it >> has a focus on the American descendants of English immigrants. >> >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cobb/ >> >> So far, we have found roughly nine genetically distinct families >> bearing the name, including the following: >> >> Descendants of Ambrose Cobbs of Kent and Virginia >> Descendants of Joseph Cobb of London and Isle of Wight, Virginia >> Descendants of Nicholas Cobb of London and Isle of Wight, Virginia >> "Elder" Henry Cobb of Barnstable, Massachusetts >> >> I myself am of the Joseph Cobb line. Evidently, he was a dissident and >> puritan, and named his three sons Joseph, Pharaoh, and Benjamin, as in >> the biblical story Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors. I believe that >> he may have been from Norfolk (see >> http://www.one-name.org/profiles/cobb.html). >> >> At this time we are seeking participants from Ye Olde Country to help >> us learn more about the name and its distribution. One primary >> question is whether all nine lineages are still extent in England, or >> whether some have died out (or, for that matter, that there are ones >> that we have no evidence of here in the US). >> >> We are working with both Ancestry 149/179USD >> (http://www.tinyurl.com/cobbdna) and FTDNA 169/268/359USD >> (http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/cobb/results). We would greatly >> appreciate having this information passed along to any biological >> males bearing the Cobb name! >> >> Thank you, >> Stephanie >> >> Admin Cobb surname FTDNA >> Guild of One Name Studies #5587 >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >