Born in Hope Town, Elbow Cay, Abaco Islands, Bahamas
Ancestors 
Daughter of Jacob Rollins Adams
and Catherine Sawyer
Sister of
Mary Ann Adams and John Thomas Adams
Wife of
Joseph Carey
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Wife of
John Edgecombe
— married
21 Oct 1869 in Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas
Mother of
Emeline Stella (Edgecombe) Carey, Eliza Catherine Carey and Frances Elizabeth (Carey) Maura
Died
at age 61
in Hope Town, Abaco Islands, Bahamas
Profile last modified
| Created 2 Dec 2020
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Emeline (Adams) Carey is part of a Bahamian family.
Biography
Emeline Adams was born 25 January 1850 in Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas to Jacob Rolins Adams and Catherine Sawyer Adams. She was christened there 3 April 1850.
She married twice: first, to John Edgecombe, planter of Hope Town, 21 October 1869; and second, to Joseph Carey, widower, about 1874/5.
Emeline and John Edgecombe had a daughter, Emeline Stella Edgecombe, born in 1870, and a son, Richard Rolins Edgecombe, who was born in 1871 and lived for 10 months. John died in Hope Town 31 May 1872 at 26 years of age.
Joseph Carey and Emeline Carey had children - among them John Wilson, Eliza Catherine, Joseph Stamford, Mary Susan, Frances Elizabeth, and Rebecca Bertha Carey.
Emeline Adams Edgecombe Carey passed away 30 October 1911 in Hope Town, Abaco at 60 years of age.
Sources
Wyannie Malone Museum, Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas. Dolly Mae CD. F3259.
"Bahamas Civil Registration, 1850-1959," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RS2-RGG?cc=1922411&wc=Q4ZG-DPX%3A216299401 : 20 May 2014), Marriages 1868-1882 > image 166 of 744; Registrar General, Nassau.
"Bahamas Births, 1850-1891," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLS7-13G : accessed 8 June 2016), Emeline Adams Edgecomb in entry for Edgecomb, 24 Feb 1870; citing St. Peters, Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas. Birth of Emeline Stella.
"Bahamas Births, 1850-1891," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL9Q-7PB : accessed 8 June 2016), Emeline Adams Carry in entry for Carry, 17 Oct 1875; citing St. Peters, Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas. Birth of son John Wilson.
"Bahamas Civil Registration, 1850-1959," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RSP-S7SM?cc=1922411&wc=Q4ZG-GPX%3A216293301 : 20 May 2014), Deaths 1910-1912 > image 204.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Emeline by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Emeline:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Emeline by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Emeline:
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~4.69%
~6.25%
Irene (Lowe) Payne 
:
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~3.52%
~7.03%
Yvonne (Malone) Bain :
23andMe, GEDmatch M954499 [compare]
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~3.52%
~7.03%
Shirley (Malone) Higgs :
AncestryDNA
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~3.12%
~6.25%
Betty (Roberts) Maxwell :
23andMe
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch YC018055C1 [compare], FTDNA kit #13628
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~3.12%
Jack Sawyer :
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~3.12%
Bert L. Roberts :
Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch LL835438 [compare]
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~2.34%
~3.12%
Lana Payne :
23andMe, GEDmatch M191333 [compare]
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~2.34%
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~1.56%
~3.12%
Anonymous Haun :
23andMe, GEDmatch KJ1731121 [compare]
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~1.56%
Peter Roberts :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member peterebay
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch RN449431C1 [compare], yourDNAportal PET66d076b1, FTDNA kit #8867
+
Living DNA
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~1.56%
~1.56%
Brenda Brandt :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch T047288 [compare], Ancestry member BLEEB
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T047288 [compare], FTDNA kit #331274
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~1.56%
John Waller :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A424401 [compare]
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~1.56%
David Freeman :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A248056 [compare], Ancestry member EHALE84191
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~1.56%
~6.25%
Pearl Lowe :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A526784 [compare]
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~1.56%
William Roberts :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T655183 [compare], FTDNA kit #371246
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~1.56%
Chris Roberts :
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~1.56%
Ida (Clark) Young :
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~1.56%
Arthur Clark :
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~1.56%
Evan Lowe :
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~1.56%
Peter Adams :
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~1.56%
~1.56%
Susan (Higgs) Goulet :
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~1.56%
Anonymous Roberts :
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~1.56%
~3.12%
Joseph Higgs :
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~1.56%
Suzanne (Lightbourn) Burnett :
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~1.56%
I. (Bethel) Roberts :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #MK83900
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~1.17%
Joanne Matcovich :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch PN2513831 [compare], FTDNA kit #B855346
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Donna (Rendueles) Robinson :
23andMe, GEDmatch M135518 [compare]
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch M135518 [compare], Ancestry member DonnaRobinson7464
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch M135518 [compare], FTDNA kit #49833
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~0.78%
~0.78%
Clair Zimmerman :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Ron Wilson :
23andMe, GEDmatch M146033 [compare]
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~0.78%
Kathy (Bethell) Ritchie :
23andMe, GEDmatch M836221 [compare]
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~0.78%
Bonnie (Malone) Hall :
23andMe, GEDmatch M779422 [compare]
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~0.78%
Ruth (Pinder) Bennett :
23andMe
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Vivian (Sands) Knowles :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A861223 [compare]
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~0.78%
Denis Roberts :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A621368 [compare]
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~0.78%
Glenn Bethel :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Joyce (Dillon) Esquinaldo :
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+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #B642665
+
MyHeritage DNA
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~0.78%
Tina Bethel :
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Carla (Cleare) Bedgood :
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~0.78%
James Kitchen :
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~0.78%
Terry (Young) Narvaez :
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~0.78%
W Roberts :
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Carol (Roberts) Lawrence :
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~0.78%
John Cates :
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~0.78%
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~0.78%
Betty (Dillon) Anuez :
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~0.78%
Nancy (Dillon) Epps :
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Cathy Roth :
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Carolyn Suhl :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Tonya (Johnson) Draughon :
AncestryDNA
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