Hi John, I am not aware of one but have not looked for it either since my closest Jaques ancestor was my 3rd great grandmother, Dorcas Jaques, d/o Thomas Taylor and Mary (Mitchell) Jaques who married Updike Cooper Whitford. That's my father's line. On my mother's side I have a 5th great grandmother, Sarah Jaques, who married Richard Chappell. I believe my Sarah to be the daughter of the Nathan born 1717 and his first wife, Margaret Littlejohn, based on some SK council records and some (hopefully) logical thinking, but it seems that logic does not always lend itself to the Jaques family :) Still, your theory is interesting and worth looking at. I will also have to see if anyone has done any Jaques DNA testing. Donna > > From: John Lisle <gene@tqsi.com> > Date: 2006/02/19 Sun AM 11:58:35 EST > To: RIGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [RIGENWEB] Gates = Jaques ??? > > Donna, > > I probably was not clear. I made a giant leap from Dr. Harrison's > well researched article that a single Jaques family in England might > have renamed itself Gates. And that possibly other branches retained > the name and another might have come to America in the early days > retaining the name. > > I suspect that only DNA testing would help tell this story. Does > anyone know if there has been a Jacques / Jackay / etc DNA project started? > > john. > > > At 10:51 AM 2/19/2006, Donna Potter wrote: > >Hi John, > > I have just received that issue of the Register but have not > > read that article yet. Since I have been trying for ages to sort > > out the Jaques (by various spellings) clan in Washington County, I > > will have to look at the Gates article. I have never run into > > Jaques spelled as Gates but would certainly not rule it out based > > on what you provided. The early Jaques clan arrived in > > Massachusetts and was from England but I have yet to connect all > > the branches here to the main trunk in Massachusetts. > > The two men who have me stymied are Nathan, born 1717 and > > Samuel, born 1719. I believe they are brothers - Samuel named a son > > Nathan and Nathan named a son Samuel - and they both had progeny > > who married into the Northups. Nathan is known to be a son of > > Nathan and Hannah Norris but I have never found an actual record > > for Sam's birth. > > DNA testing would certainly help illuminate things but being > > able to find two males, one of whom is known to descend from Sam > > and one who is known to descend from Nathan, both with the Jaques > > surname, is a tough order given the lack of documentation. I am not > > sure anyone here in South County who has the surname can positively > > take their line back to anyone beyond the early 1800s. > > I have two lines but am really stumped to get them back further > > and see where they connect - if they do! > > There's also a lot of misinformation on this family spread by > > one very faulty early database. Since Nathan appeared most often in > > the records people found his name easily and seemed to assume they > > were from his line without looking further. It's a tangled mess > > like I have never seen! > > I am glad you brought up the article though and will have to > > sit down and read it later today! Donna > > > > > > From: John Lisle <gene@tqsi.com> > > > Date: 2006/02/18 Sat PM 07:56:43 EST > > > To: RIGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com > > > Subject: [RIGENWEB] Gates = Jaques ??? > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I know there is someone on this list who has been researching the > > > Jacques / Jaquays family. I would be interested to learn what > > > information you have on the earliest known members of the family. > > > > > > The latest issue of the NEHGS Register has an excellent article by > > > Dr. Ed Harrison about the ancestry of Stephen Gates of Cambridge. > > > Almost every early Gates family I have run into seems to trace back > > > to Stephen. There has been much controversy about his ancestry. It > > > was known that he was of Hingham, Norfolk, England. Dr. Harrison > > > discovered his baptism in the village of Coney Weston in Suffolk > > > about 16 miles from Hingham. Based on this he has identified his > > > parents: Eustace Gates and Rosa Wright. > > > > > > What is curious is that Eustace's will gives his name as Jaques, yet > > > the Coney Weston registers use Gate(s) for all of the family entries > > > except for his burial. The burial entry uses the odd spelling of Jayuettes. > > > > > > This immediately triggered the question: Why would a simple name like > > > Gates be spelled so differently? > > > > > > In a private correspondence with Dr. Harrison, he mentioned that he > > > had done some looking for other instances of the Jaques name in the area. > > > > > > I might wonder if Eustace was actually born a Jaques and adopted the > > > name Gates. > > > > > > If the RI Jacques family has English origins as I recall, I suspect a > > > little DNA test comparison is in order... > > > > > > john. > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== RIGENWEB Mailing List ==== > > > Bristol County RIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ribristo/ > > > RI Cemeteries Index http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/cemetery/ > > > > > > > > > > > >==== RIGENWEB Mailing List ==== > >Kent County RIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~rikent/ > >Search the RIGenWeb Pages http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/search.html > > > > ==== RIGENWEB Mailing List ==== > Visit RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative: http://www.rootsweb.com/ > WorldConnect Project -- Connecting the World One GEDCOM at a Time > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ > >