Looking for HARWOOD COOK surname links likely in England

Question

My ydna 111 STR test strongly suggest a match between the two surnames; most likely in England.  I have a paper match back to Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England a 1798 marriage.  My direct Harwood line immigrated to Ohio and Michigan in the late 19th century while all of the matching COOKs were in the US some back to the 18th century.  I can find no paper connections between the matching Cook families and English locales.

Answer 1

Hi Alan

My g g Grandfather Richard Horwood  b Tackley Oxfordshire England 1789

Married Anne Cook b Wooten Oxfordshire abt 1790. They married on 24th October 1808 in Wooten

The Harwoods family of Tackley used surname Horwood, Horrod and Harwood but after Civil  Registration in 1837 reverted  to Harwood

Let me know if this helps your search fo Harwood Cook relationship

                                                                 Edgar Harwood

Comments

Edgar, thank you for the Cook/Harwood information.  I am an American descendant of William Harwood from the 18th century village of Littleport, Cambridgeshire,England.  I have done the ydna testing by Family Tree and discovered several seemingly unrelated close connections to the Cook surname here in the US.  So far I have been unable to trace these Cook families to exact English locations.  The Cook connection seems to be about 4 to 5 generations ago when all of my Harwood  ancestors (so far as I know) were still in England.  I'm thinking that maybe a female Cook had a male child fathered by a Harwood but kept the Cook surname?!  Pure speculation I know but that is one explanation.

 

Alan Harwood

California, USA