S&SMFB - FAMILY HISTORY BASED ON GENETIC DATA
II-4, Study of My Fathers mtDNA being used in two studies:
1st ongoing study is to identify by name and location my paternal
grandmother Luella May Wood mtDNA family lineage within the surname era.
The mtDNA
of Luella at HV-1 is 16298C. Vincent Macaulay designates HV-1 298 as Haplogroup V, 73 status as A and the Coding-region mutations as -4577NlaIII;
+11718HaeIII; -14766MceI.
Her mtDNA HV-2 is 0072C, 00263G, 00309.1C, 00309.2C, 00315.1C
The National Geographic Society - Genographic Project, has identified
Coding-Region SNP V4580, located at ND4 of the mtDNA diagram. The HV-1
motif data along with coding-region SNP, 4580 determines the Major Haplogroup
V.
Everyone in Haplogroup V designated by the single
HV-1 mutation 16298C, also carry HV-2 mutations, 0072C, 00263G, 00309.1C and
00315.1C. HV-2 mutation 00309.2C shows up in a limited amount of cases. When
browsing through genetic papers I shorten what I am looking for to V-298, 309.2.
Ancestral Haplogroup
V Lineage During the Surname Era:
1st Generation, Luella May WOOD (WOODS) b 17 Jan 1878, Hingham, Plymouth Co.,
MA, d 5 Feb, 1953, Lynn, Essex Co., MA, m 21 Jan 1903, Boston, Suffolk
Co., MA, Lotan Nathaniel Staples, b 19 Jul 1965, Lynn, MA, d 19 July 1965,
Lynn, Essex Co., MA. Children 4, 2M, 2F.
2nd Gen. Hannah Elizabeth CARTER, b 11 July 1857, Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA,
d 18 Aug 1939, Lynn MA, m 16 Dec 1876, Scituate, MA, Walter Fessenden Wood, b
12 Apr 1853, Cohasset (Beachwood), Norfolk Co., MA, d 15 Mar 1947, Lynn, MA.
Children 6, 3M, 3F.
3rd Gen. Lucinda BEAL (BEALE), b 19 May 1838, Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA, d 29
Jan1907, No. Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA, m 18 May 1856 (int May 9, 1856,
Liberty, Waldo Co., ME), James Davis Carter, b 14 Mar, 1834, Liberty, Waldo
Co., ME, d 04 Feb 1916, No. Scituate, Norfolk Co., MA. Children 9, 1M, 8F.
4th Gen.
Hannah Leavitt BURBANK, b 10 Oct 1813, Cohasset, Norfolk Co., MA, d 06 May
1891, Hingham or Cohasset, MA, m 14 Aug 1831, Cohasset, Norfolk Co., MA,
Daniel Beal (Beale), b 05 Nov 1806, d 18 Sept 1880, Hingham, Plymouth Co.,
MA. Children 5, 3M, 2F.
5th Gen. Sarah BATTLES, b 1769, Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA, d 25 Mar 1827, m
07 Feb 1789, Timothy Burbank, b 26 Feb 1769 (bt July 9 1769, Hingham,
Plymouth Co., MA), d 04 Sept 1848, Hingham, MA. Children 11, 5M, 6F.
Note: Timothy Burbank was the son of John Burbank, b 14 May 1749, and Hannah
Leavitt of Hingham, MA.
6th Gen. Deborah BURBANK, b 23 Dec 1743, Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA, m Ephraim
Battles, b 09 Jun 1789.
Note: Deborah BURBANK was the sister of John Burbank, b 14 May 1749. Children
4, 1M, 3F.
7th Gen. Elizabeth TOWER, b 11 Jun 1705, d 30 Sept 1791, Hingham., Plymouth
Co., Ma, m 28 Jun 1727, John Burbank b 19 Jan 1704/05 of Boston, Suffolk Co.,
and Rowley, Essex Co., MA, d Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA. Children 13, 3M, 10F.
8th Gen. Elizabeth WHITON, b 31 Mar 1684, m Hezekiah Tower, bt 02 Oct 1681,
Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA. Children 5, 1M 4F.
9th Gen. Debora PITTS, bt 06 Nov 1651, Hingham Plymouth Co., MA, d 19 Sept
1729 Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA, m 2nd, 27 Dec 1677, Hingham, Plymouth Co.,
MA, Matthew Whiton, bt 30 Oct 1653, Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA, d 22 Jul 1725,
Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA. Children 8, 4M, 4F.
10th Gen. ANN (Mrs. PITTS), b probably in the area of Hingham - Hackford,
Norfolk Co., England. d 30 Nov 1686, Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA, m in England
, Edmond PITTS, weaver, b ~ 1613, Hackford, Norfolk Co., England, d 13 May
1685, Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA. Children9, 3M, 6F.
ANN, emigrated with her husband, Edmond Pitts, weaver, and dau Mary born in
England, probably Hingham, Norfolk Co., England, d 15 Jun 1641, Hingham
Plymouth Co., MA.
Genealogical information on the above families can be found in the book "The
History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, The Genealogies, by George
Lincoln, New England Press, as well as at the Town Hall's and Historical
Societies in Hingham, Cohasset and Scituate, MA. George Lincoln
Genealogies gives the following information on Edmond Pitts.
Edmond had a grant of land in Hing. 1637; although, according to reliable
authority he did not become a resident here until 1639. Cushing's MS., under
the last mentioned date, says: "Edmond Pitts and his wife and child, and his
brother Leonard Pitts and Adam Foulsham, came from Old Hingham and settled in
New Hingham (5)." His w., whose chris. name was Ann d in Hing. 30 Nov 1686.
He d 13 May 1685. Will dated 20 Apr 1685, proved 26 May foll. "Weaver."
Freeman 13 May 1640; selectman 1668, 1672, 1677, 1680, and 1681; was many
yrs. sexton of the church, and kn. in his advanced life as "Goodman Pitts."
Resided on Town (North) St., nearly opp. Thaxter's Bridge.
Note; This mtDNA direct lineage from the birth of Mrs. Ann Pitts about 1613 to Luella May Wood's
last born in 1914, 10 generations or about 300 years produced 75 known
children consisting of 48 mtDNA female lines and 27 males in the same general area,
Hingham, Cohasset and North Scituate,
Massachusetts.
Researching the maiden name of Ann Pitts and searching for any remaining
relatives living in England.
2nd
ongoing study is to answer three questions about the ancient ancestors of
Luella -
1) Who were they? 2) When did they live? 3) Where did the migrate to and what
cultural changes took place?
VELDA:
Velda (mtDNA Haplogroup V) listed in the "The Seven Daughters of Eve", by Professor Bryan Sykes of Oxford Univesity,
England,p 234-242. About 17,000 years ago Velda, the fourth of the seven daughters
of Eve was born, At this time all
life in Europe, animal and human was located in the Ukraine, southern France,
Italy and the Iberian (Spain & Portugal) Peninsula. Velda lived and died in
the mountains of Cantabrica, a few miles behind what is now the port of
Santander, west of the Pyrenees in northern Spain. Today about 5
percent of native Europeans belong to the Clan of Velda; they are more
frequent in western Europe than in the east. Over time they have traveled
north to the top of Scandinavia, where they are found among present-day Sammi
of Finland and Northern Norway.
Tracking my Fathers Ancestral mtDNA Haplogroup Lineage L1/L0 > L2 >
L3 > N > R > pre-HV > HV > V-298:
Information for this study is taken from the book by Dr Spencer Wells,
Director of the Genographic Project, "Deep Ancestry, inside the Genographic
Project" (2006). The mtDNA Haplogroups inferred from the panel of 22
Coding-Region (cr) SNP's used by the Genographic Project are listed at PLoS
Genetics, June 2007, Doron M. Behar et al "The Genographic Project Public
Participation Mitochondrial DNA Database", Figure 4.
Haplogroups L1/ L0 > L2, cr SNP
2758:
Haplogroup L1 coexisted with L0 which likely originated in East Africa
around 100,000 years ago. Both L1 & L0 only recently have made their way out
of Africa. L2 individuals arose about 70,000 years ago from a single female
ancestor and first emerged in western and west-central Africa, they have the
most widespread mtDNA in Africa.
Haplogroup L3, cr SNP 3594:
The most common ancestor of haplogroup L3 is a woman who lived around
80,000 years ago. They are the first morden humans to have left Africa.
Descendants of of these people currently make up about 10 percent of the
Middle Eastern population.
Haplogroup N, cr SNP 10873:
Haplogroup N descended from L3 and also left the African Continent as the
second wave of modern human migration, across the Sinai Peninsula. Because
almost all the mtDNA lineages found in the Near East and Europe descend from
N it is considered a western Eurasian haplogroup.
Haplogroup R, cr SNP 12705:
The R clan descends from a woman in the western Eurasian haplogroup N. Some
of clan R members moved north across the Caucasus Mountains, their lineages
being carried into Europe, about 35,000 years ago, for the first time by the
Cro-Magnon. today descendants of haplogroup R dominate the European mtDNA
genetic landscape to more than 70 percent of the lineages found there.
Note: From 100,000 years ago to about 50,000 years ago, both my mothers
clan and my paternal grandmothers clan was the same. My mothers R clan branched off to form haplogroupor
clan U. My maternal
grandmothers R clan branched off to form haplogroup or clan pre-HV.
Haplogroup pre-HV aka RO, cr SNP 11719:
Descendants of haplogroup pre-HV can be found all around the Red Sea and
throughout the Near East. These descendants live in high frequencies in the
Anatolian / Caucasus region and Iran. Some members of pre-HV moved north
across the Caucasus Mountains and West across Anatolia, their lineages
being carried into Europe by the Cro-Magnon. Over the course of several
thousand years, descendants of pre-HV began to split off and form their own
groups. Of prime importance is a haplogroup called HV.
Haplogroup HV, 14766:
Haplogroup HV, gave rise to the
two most prevalent female lineages found in western Europe, H (for Dr Bryan
Sykes Helina) and V (for Dr Bryan Sykes Velda). While all these lineages
existed around 20,000 years ago, they did not dominate the female genetic
landscape until after the Ice Age about 12,000 years ago when people started
moving north again. Around 30,000 years ago, some members of HV moved north
across the Caucasus Mountains and west across Turkey to carry their lineages
into Europe. Today haplogroups H and V dominate the western European mtDNA
landscape, making up almost 75 percent of all European Lineages.
Haplogroup V-298, cr SNP 4580:
Birth estimated at about 15,000 years.
Today, haplogroup V tends to be restricted to western, central, and
northern Europe. It's age is estimated at about 15,000 years old, indicating
that it likely was born during the 5,000 years or so that humans were
confined to the European refugia during the last Ice Age. It is found in
around 12 percent of Basques in northern Spain and around 5 percent in many
other western European populations. Haplogroup V attains it's highest
frequency in the Skolt Saami of northern Scandinavia, a group of
hunter-gatherers who follow the reindeer herds seasonally from Siberia to
Scandinavia and back. While V makes up about half the mtDNA lineages in the
Saami, it's genetic diversity is considerably reduced compared to that
observed in western Europe, and was likely introduced into the Saami within
the past several thousand years.
COMMENT:
To date my fathers 100 year old mtDNA (taken eight months before his
100th birthday.) pedigree is the only DNA lineage in our family history that we
have been able to trace back to its origin during the surname era for common
people in England using DNA.
16 June 2008
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