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Chris Rickerd

Born 1990s.

Ancestors

Son of [private father (1960s - unknown)]

and Mary (MacDonald) Rickerd

[sibling(s) unknown]

[children unknown]

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1 Biography
- 1.1 Adoption Theory
- 1.2 DNA Confirmation
2 Sources

Biography

I started researching my family history in the spring of 2016 when my grandmother passed away and my mother came in possession of a good deal of family history research that my grandfather had accomplished many years ago. His parents were born in Nova Scotia and are mentioned in the book Mabou Pioneers.

Adoption Theory

This story is consistent with, but not necessarily conclusively proven by, all DNA evidence collected so far.

My paternal grandfather, Phillip Edward (Lillie) Rickerd was adopted at a young age and nobody alive today that I have spoken with seems to be very sure of who his birth parents were. I have yet to obtain a birth record for him.

My current working theory is that he was the child of Edward Baatz and Allie Lillie. At the time of his birth, Allie was 14 and Edward was married to Luella Froats. Since these two clearly could not raise the child, Allie's brother, Harold Lillie, took in the child with his wife, Sadie Link. As far as everyone was concerned at the time, the child was theirs. Then, 5 years later, Harold died unexpectedly in a work accident. Harold and Sadie had five children of their own when Harold died.

The two youngest boys, James and Harold Jr, were adopted by their paternal grandparents. The two middle children, Mary and Floyd, were adopted by their aunt Olive Baatz and uncle Roy Lillie, who never had any children of their own. The two oldest children, Phillip and Helen, were adopted outside of the family. Phillip was adopted by Paul Willard Rickerd and Helen Azaria Courtade. Helen was adopted by the Verno family.

My Y DNA haplogroup is R1a - YP254, which is most common in modern-day Poland.

DNA Confirmation

Paternal DNA confirmed by auDNA match of 3,450 cM to Duane Rickerd. Maternal DNA confirmed by auDNA match of 3,463 cM to Mary MacDonald Rickerd.

I am in the following "DNA Circles" on Ancestry.com, which I use as evidence to mark my trail to each of these ancestors as "confident".

2nd Great Grandparents

3rd Great Grandparents

4th Great Grandparents

5th Great Grandparents

Aaron McClain and Elizabeth Anna
Warren Streeter Sr and Hezzy Foster

Sources

A D MacDonald. Mabou Pioneers Volume 1: A Genealogical Tracing of Some Pioneer Families Who Settled in Mabou and District https://books.google.com/books?id=VI3wAwAAQBAJ
J L MacDougall. History of Inverness County, Nova Scotia. 1922. https://archive.org/stream/historyofinverne00macduoft#page/600/mode/2up
MacKenzie, Alexander. History of the MacDonalds and Lords of the Isles: With Genealogies of the Principal Families of the Name. 1881. https://books.google.com/books?id=BxAXAAAAYAAJ

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Chris or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Chris:

100.00% 100.00% Chris Rickerd: AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A809659 [compare], Ancestry member cjrickerd

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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Chris:

Chris Rickerd is a Wonderful WikiTreer Nov 29, 2017.

Comments: 17

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Sarah Mason

Hi Chris,

We haven’t heard back from you concerning the Scottish Clans Transition. If we haven’t received a response from you by 23 March 2020, you will be welcome to rejoin by answering the current g2g thread for joining the Scotland Project.

Best Regards,

Sarah Mason, Scotland Project PC

posted Mar 09, 2020 by Sarah Mason

Sarah Mason

Hello Chris,

My name is Sarah and I’m the Project Coordinator for the Scotland Project. As you may have heard, we have merged the Scottish Clans project into the Scotland Project. I am contacting you today to find out if you are interested in continuing with us under this new format. If you would like to go forward on the Scottish Clans Team, please reply and let me know which clans you have been working on or would like to work on. I look forward to hearing from you.

Best Regards,

Sarah Mason, Scotland PC

posted Feb 26, 2020 by Sarah Mason

Gillby Weldon

Your comment about Mary Smith's death date is incorrect. Two months must be added to "old calendar" dates to convert them to our present calendar. You can tell a date is from the old calendar if it is written as, for this example, the 6th day of the 3rd month of 1666. You must add 2 months and you get 6 May 1666. Old calendar dates were commonly used in those years.

posted Jan 05, 2019 by Gillby Weldon

Guy Constantineau (1946-2023)

Wish you a Happy New Year. May 2018 bring you all you need to be happy.

Congratulation for adding your contributions in December. Whatever the quantity of your contributions, they all count. As I always say "Quality is better than quantity" to make a great family tree.

Thank you for being a Wikitreer,

Guy Constantineau - Wikitree leader

posted Jan 02, 2018 by Guy Constantineau (1946-2023)

Shane Booth

I see mutual relationship to Caleb on the Paternal line, greetings Cousin!

Warren Booth

posted Dec 17, 2017 by Shane Booth

Elizabeth (Stolson) Blake

Hi Chris,

I'm not certain about the connection you mention with George Washington Rowley and Nathanial. If you find evidence that would make that more accurate, please feel free to make corrections. I'm a bit busy for doing research right now. Best wishes!

posted Oct 10, 2017 by Elizabeth (Stolson) Blake

Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM

We are indeed 9th Cousins through James Streeter. I have added you to my Wiki Cousins Space Page

Emma :-)

posted Aug 24, 2017 by Emma (McBeth) MacBeath M.Ed MSM

Maria Maxwell

Hi Chris and thanks for your post on G2G.

Ive added the Scottish Clans Project badge to your profile. If you click on the badge it will take you to the full list of our wonderful members. Clicking on Scottish Clans Project will take you the first page of the project. Thanks for adding your name to the Member Interest page.

Thanks again for joining, enjoy and good luck with your research Maria

posted Jul 19, 2017 by Maria Maxwell

Marlene Marx

Hi there,

This week we have your last stop on the guided tour. Hopefully, you're feeling like a WikiTree pro! You've covered a lot of ground the past few weeks. Today, we want to give you just a few more tools that can take you even deeper into the WikiTree forest without getting lost: How to Dig a Little Deeper. As always, your questions are welcome!

Marlene WikiTree Messenger

posted Jun 23, 2017 by Marlene Marx

Cindy (Williams) Lesure

You may have been hard at work getting connected to family members who are already here and adding those who were missing. You probably have at least a few profiles that you manage now.

There's a fast and easy way to access those profiles using the Watchlist. So, this week we're going to look at How to Manage Your Watchlist.

Please let one of us know if you have questions! Just click my name above the comment, then ask in the comment section of my page. We want to help!

Thanks, WikiMessenger Cindy

posted Jun 17, 2017 by Cindy (Williams) Lesure

Shirley Ann (Strutton) Dalton (1943-2023)

Chris --

You've been here for several weeks now! We hope your profiles are starting to come together and that you've enjoyed getting to know all of us a little better.

You're probably getting a good feel for the collaborative nature of WikiTree by now. We know that collaboration isn't always easy. So, we've put together a few pointers that can make working in this type of environment a little easier: How to be a Successful WikiTreer.

As always, your questions are welcome!

Shirley

posted Jun 08, 2017 by Shirley Ann (Strutton) Dalton (1943-2023)

Cindy (Williams) Lesure

Chris

It's time for your next stop on your guided tour. This week, we'd like to introduce you to our community and show you some ways to get more involved and stay up to date on everything that's going on: How to Join in the Community.