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- Remember the two tables showing test results--matching and not matching?
- Testers in first two columns (R1b, Cro-Magnon, R1b1b2)
- Our Mike in third column (R1a, Indo-European, R1a1-2b)
- Genetic distance of 18
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- This sets a very old and inaccurate accounting straight.
- Lura Coolley Hamil, 1930s, 6mos. Died.
- 20 years later as A Story of Pioneering.
- Large sections are wrong.
- Misidentified Elizabeth Firmin's husband.
- William, not John
- Made them Dutch.
It may be so, but to this day, that's not verified. But, as we
can clearly see, that's neither here nor there when it comes to
us. Genetically, we don't match.
- Dale Walker chart, 1970s or 80s, made these two Johns to same man
- Because of Hamil's mistake, Dale said our John m Elizabeth
- DNA proves otherwise. John's wife is unknown.
- Historic evidence -- little of it.
- The Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette
County, Pennsylvania (1889) states that William was married to
Elizabeth Firmin. (Hamil cites this book but mistakenly made John
the husband.)
- Their grandson, John Cooley, subject of the article, was still
living and was the likely source for the information.
- William and his wife are found on the 1810 census records for Fayette county
PA living near their sons, proving the accuracy of the 1889
statement.
- William and Elizabeth had at least four descendants having the
first name Firmin.
- The Fayette lineages
- Need to be firmed up. More genealogy needed.
- Nevertheless, the two testers of common patriarch. John and
William were probably brothers.
- The Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette
County, Pennsylvania says William was born in Ireland and was
a waggoner during the Revolution. He may have been this man:
From Irish Emigrants to North America: "Cooley, William, born
1753, a founder [worked in a foundry] in Dublin, emigrated from
London to Maryland on the Rebecca as an indentured servant.
9.1774."
- Despite what we've been told for several decades, our John Cooley was not
the man born in New York in 1740, who lived in Maryland and had descendants
living in Fayette county PA. That distinction belongs to the John who
married Anna Decker. Our John was confused with him. That confusion
became nothing more than an unfounded rumor, perpetuated literally thousands
of times through the photocopying of an erroneous family group chart.
- What do we know about our John Cooley? At my web page for John at
johncooley.net I discuss some of the evidence that he probably went
to North Carolina from Virginia in the 1760s. There's good evidence that he
was the John Cooley who served during the French and Indian War in 1755 from
Caroline County Virginia with his life-long friend and associate Richard
Goode. Before that date we can do nothing but guess. But there is a lot of
evidence that he was from England. I discuss that speculation in some
detail at johncooley.net. I'm here today to discuss the genetic
evidence.)