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Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Myriad Notes about the Various Willis Y-DNA Groups


CRAVEN COUNTY GROUP
  • Started with a Richard Willis 1600-1626 who came from Cambridgeshire, UK and located in Middlesex,  Va. in very early 1600s.
  • In 1700s,  this group largely moved into Craven County,  North Carolina. From there they migrated south into Ga,  then across the deep south.
  • Members of this group were among founders of the Mormon Church. 
  • Best tree I have found on this group belongs to a David Porter Willis and his tree is on FTDNA,  here.
  • David is a 25 marker Y-DNA match to me,  with genetic distance of 2.

ANDREW JACKSON GROUP
  • Ancestry user with most knowledge of this group is bridgetgillis44.
  • Bridget's tree,  here.
  • There are two kits of this group as of Feb 2019.  Their Y-test shows them closely related to males of the surname Crain,  or McCrain.  So,  there is a biological break along their Willis branch.
  • Their earliest Willis ancestor is Andrew Jackson Willis 1815-1885.  He is known to have believed to be of Willis of THE MARYLAND GROUP,  closely interacting in Colbert Co,  Alabama in the mid 1800s.

THE MARYLAND GROUP
  • Subject of this blog.
  • To understand our group,  read THE OVERVIEW.

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