"Hello Declan,
Through DNA, I've discovered that my Forbes family from Cork Ireland (George Forbes & Sarah Haggartie married in Kilmeen Parish 1803) have much deeper Scottish roots. What is interesting is that there were many…"
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- What surnames are you interested in researching?
- Forbes, Dutcher, Ogden, McCarthy, Duan, Burke, Haggarty, Burrows, Boyd,
- What countries and other locations are you interested in researching?
- Ireland
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- Intermediate Family History Researcher
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- At 11:27am on April 17, 2011,
Susan J. Barretta said…
Eric, I remember you and wonderful to hear from you. It's probably been nearly 2 years. Are you talking about what is on ancestry.com or something else?
Since I've talked to you I've launched this website: http://www.corkgen.org. It's become a dumping ground for leftover research. I have been busy doing tithe applotment transcriptions for the area, with ambitions to eventually cover all of southwest Cork so I can eventually do some surname distribution studies, and maybe even first name with surname distribution studies. Tithe applotments are here: http://www.corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/titheapplot
Also, I took the Family Finder test at Family Tree DNA in March of 2010. Although I haven't conclusively established a link to them (likely because we just don't have records that go back far enough), there are about three people I've been in touch with whose roots are agonizingly close geographically.
Since I have last talked to you, I know of at least 2 Hegartys who have married into my lines: 1) Ellen Hegarty married Andrew McCarthy of Lissane, Caheragh. Andrew's brother Charles was my ggg-grandfather. 2) Granddad's brother Denis married Mary Ellen Hegarty of Bluid (Castlehaven?). Denis died quite young. Their son John Joe Collins still lives there. 3) From rom an old deed dated 1803 - Denis Collins a farmer in Lissane witnessed a landlord-tenant agreement for Mr. Edmond Nagle of Myross and Cornelius Hegarty of Derryclough (that would be in Drinagh). Cornelius had sons Luke and Peter.
If you have any Cork genealogy links you like, send them my way and I'll add them to my pages if I don't already have them.
- At 6:45am on January 19, 2010,
- This website (if you don't know about it already) has some info on Hegartys from Cork.
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sharonmh/
She has her database on rootsweb, and it's quite extensive!
- At 7:11pm on January 17, 2010,
- Hi Eric, looks like it's subclade H6 of Haplogroup H. I am actually waiting for the results of a full genomic sequence test to confirm that.
Something like 40% of "native" Europeans fall into Haplogroup H. Here is a paper on the subclades:
http://www.genebase.com/tutorial/item.php?tuId=20
- At 5:24pm on January 16, 2010,
- Interesting, Eric. Are you talking about mtDNA or Y-DNA. I don't know Irish history very well I'm afraid, but if the Spaniards came here with hostile intent then they probably would not have brought their women with them. If there were Scots emigrating or fleeing from Scotland then I would think it more likely that they would have brought women with them.
You might want to check IrishTimes and their maps of civil parishes. They give sort of a surname "density" count based on number of households with a particular surname in a particular parish at the time of Griffith's valuation. There seem to be a lot of Hegartys out of Castlehaven, for instance.
http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/counties/civilmaps/
- Susan
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