The first 12 markers for the presumed descendant of John Cooley of
Franklin County NC have come in. Here is an email I wrote to Kay Sisson
about it. As you'll see, I have some reason to wonder about the genealogy.
If the results (and/or genealogy) can be backed up, then most of the
identified 18th century southern Cooley families *might* be identified. To
reiterate, the reason this is pertinent is that, to date, we have not been
able to confirm the presence in the US of a collateral line to our John's.
There are hints of that possibility with James Cooley of Jack County, TX,
William Henry Cooley of PA/OH/IL, and Edmond Cooley, but they were all
young enough to have been descendants of John of Stokes County, NC.
One day, all of this will add up. I promise. :)
-Michael
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Subject: RE: cooley dna results
From: "Michael Cooley"
Date: Sat, June 8, 2013 11:05 pm
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Hi Kay,
The first 12 markers for the Walter Stephen Cooley line have come in. They
match the first 12 markers for a descendant of John A Cooley (1756-1794)
of Darlington, SC, the purported son of John C Cooley (c1725-1767) of
Halifax County, NC.
This raises some interesting questions. First, of course, are the two
genealogies correct? If they are, to what extent are we sure that Walter
Stephen Cooley was the son of John Cooley (1734-) of Franklin County, and
that John A Cooley was the son of John C Cooley of Halifax County? If
we're close at all on the birth dates for the two patriarchs they differed
in age by only about nine years. That they had the same name would likely
preclude that they were brothers. Were they cousins? Or is there something
amiss with the genealogies? (That's been known to happen!)
I've placed the tester's results in CF07 at
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Cooley/default.aspx?section=yresults .
That's a group, btw, I didn't create and I'm now having some doubts about
the placement of at least one of the other results. But we'll know more in
about a week when the rest of the current results come in as to how well
they compare with the others. Also, I've been in touch with a descendant
of Edward Cooley (c1761-) m Delilah Hartsfield, presumed brother of your
Walter Stephen Cooley. I'll do my level best to get him to test. If he
matches, then we can be reasonably certain that the genealogy is correct.
If he doesn't match, then we will have to go back to the drawing board.
Here are my pages for the two lines:
http://ancestraldata.com/ahnentafel/256/lineages/franklinNC-desc.html
http://ancestraldata.com/ahnentafel/256/lineages/halifax-desc.html
I'll keep you posted.
-Michael
Received on Sun Jun 09 2013 - 00:22:27 MDT