Britain-Ford Research Notes

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Contents 1 Britain-Ford Research Notes 1.1 Thomas Ford(s) 1.2 Britain(s) and Ford(s) 2 Sources 2.1 yDNA 2.1.1 References 2.2 yDNA Advantage 2.3 Map 2.4 Of Interest 2.5 Mrs. Ford 2.6 Wilson auDNA

Britain-Ford Research Notes

This page consolidates the quite lengthy notes from each of the ancestor profiles and gives a sub-heading, which can be repeatedly linked-to. [v] means verified descendancy (such as listed in parent's Will) and (u) means 'keep searching.' The people about whom this page applies (bold=priority):

Thomas Ford(s)

Row	Rel.V.	Name	Year--Ancestor	Spouse	auDNA	Rel.B.	Gen
00	...	Ford, Thomas	...	...	auDNA tested	...	00
01	...	Ford, Thomas	1627	...	auDNA tested	...	00
00	...	...	1627--Symen	...	auDNA tested	...	00
02	(u) 4th ggf	Britain, Thomas aka Thomas Ford	...	...	Wilson auDNA	5th ggc	10
03a	...	Ford, Thomas	~1750...	...	...	...	00
03b	...	...	~1750--Mordecai	Ruth Barney	Barney auDNA	...	00
03c	...	...	missing generation	...	...	...	00
03d	...	...	~1692--Thomas	Leah Price	Price auDNA	Row 22	12cc
00	...	Ford, Thomas	...	...	auDNA tested	...	00
00	...	Ford, Thomas	...	...	auDNA tested	...	00

Britain(s) and Ford(s)

Row	Rel.V.	Name	yDNA	Spouse	auDNA	Year	Rel.B.	Gen
01	...	Britain, 1 descendant	...	...	auDNA tested	...	...	02
02	...	1 descendant	...	...	auDNA tested	...	...	B.=03
03	...	Britain, 1 descendant	...	...	auDNA tested	...	...	04
04	M.=04	Britain, 1 descendant	yDNA tested, match 3C	...	auDNA tested	...	3C1R	04
05	V.=04	Britain, V.	yDNA tested, match 3C	...	...	...	3C1R	04
06	ggf	Britain, James Alexander	confirmed	...	...	...	2 ggn	07
07	ggu	Britain, John Wesley	confirmed	...	...	...	2 ggn	07
08	2nd ggf	Britain, George W	confirmed	Bailey, Betsey	Bailey auDNA	1827 McMinn, TN; m.1848 Greene, MO	3rd ggc	08
09	3rd ggf	John Britain/Britten	confirmed	Hensley, Catharine	too small #	1800; m.1822 TN Washington Co	4th ggc	09
10	(u) 4th ggf	Britain, Thomas aka Ford, Thomas	confident	Wilson, Elizabeth	Wilson auDNA	1750; m.1777 Edenton, Chowan, NC; d.1818 Washington, TN, as Thomas Ford	5th ggc	10
11	(u) 5th ggf	Britten, Thomas	confident	Ford, Mary	Ford auDNA	1723 Worcestershire, ENG; m.1747 in Bitton, Gloucestershire, ENG	6th ggc	11
12	(u) 6th ggf	Briton, William	confident	spouse unknown	no surname to match	1704 Belbroughton, Worcestershire, ENG	7th ggc	12
13	(u) 7th ggf	Britten, John	confident	spouse unknown	no surname to match	1671 Pensax, Worcestershire, ENG	8th ggc	13
14	(u) 8th ggf	Britten, John	confident	spouse unknown	no surname to match	1635 ENG	9th ggc	14
15	...	Brynton, John	...	Foord, Mary	Ford auDNA, too distant	1602 Warwickshire, ENG; m.1643 Old Swinford, Worcester, ENG (image) (ref 2); father of Symen	[v] 10th ggn	16
16	...	Britten Thomas	confident	...	...	b.unkn; m.unkn; d.1616 Worcester, ENG (ref 1); father of John	...	17
17	...	...	...	...	b.unkn; m.unkn; d.unkn	...	18
18	...	Ford, John	confident	...	...	b.unkn; m.unkn; d.1616 Worcester, ENG (ref 1)	...	17
19	...	Ford, Symen	confident	spouse unknown	Shared ancestor	1600 son of Mary, father not named; 1627 father of Thomas	[v] 10th ggc	15
20	[v]...	Ford, Thomas	confident	Dix, Abigail	Dix auDNA	1627 Old Swinford, Worcester, ENG [1]	[v] 9th ggn	14g
21	[u]...	Ford, James	confident	Fiske, Elizabeth	Fiske auDNA	1670; 1702 Will [2]	(u) 1C10R	13c
22	[v]...	Ford, Thomas	confident	Price, Leah	Price auDNA	1692, son of James [2]; m.1711 Westminster Parish, Anne Arundel, MD	[v] 2C9R	12cc
23	...	Ford, Lloyd Sr.	confident	Wood, Mary	Wood auDNA	1727 Saint Paul's Parish, Baltimore, MD	3C8R	11ccc
24	...	Ford, Lloyd Jr.	confident	Grant, Mary	Grant auDNA	~1750 Baltimore, Maryland; m.1777 Baltimore, MD	4C7R	10cccc
25	...	Ford, John	confident	...	...	~1750 Baltimore, MD	5C6R	09ccccc
26	...	Ford, Elizabeth	...	...	Stone auDNA	~1818 Washington, TN, m.1838 Washington, TN	6C5R	08x6c(s)
27	...	Ford descendants	confident	...	various auDNA	1800	...	09

[v] Relationship to Britain-117

abbreviation: ggu: great granduncle

[v] Relationship to Britain-141

abbreviation: 2nd ggn: second great grandniece

abbreviation: 3rd ggf: third great grandfather

confident relationship: Very difficult sourcing unsourced Ford(s)

(ref 1) Calendar of wills and administrations in the Consistory Court of the bishop of Worcester: also marriage licenses and sequestrations now deposited in the Probate Registry at Worcester. London: British Record Society, 1910, 807 pgs. (HeritageQuest.) (image)

Britten, Thomas, ---ton, Will, year 1616, page 75, number 50.

Ford, John, Doderhill, Will Inventory, year 1616, page 75, number 69.

(ref 2) "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NV4X-MMR Anne Foord in entry for John Brynton, 25 Feb 1643, Old Swinford, Worcestershire, England], re-indexed 13 March 2020.

Sources

1. ↑ * 1627 Christening: "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", FamilySearch, Thomas Foorde, 11 Nov 1627, Old Swinford, Worcester, England, son of Symen Foorde, index updated 23 March 2020. (Now county of Worcestershire.)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} * 1702 Will of James Ford: Cotton, Jane Baldwin and Henry, Roberta Bolling. Maryland Calendar of Wills, Vol. II, page 251, from archive.org, from Allen County Public Library.

yDNA

From Thomas Britain, Research Notes

A genealogically proven Britain descendant tested yDNA-67, then another tested yDNA-111 at great expense to discover "who was father of John Britain/Britten?" At the time, he was our earliest documented Britain/Britten ancestor. The results were unexpectedly Ford matches, all except for Column Four showing a 12 (not an 11) under DYS391.(1) This 12 was identified as a 'northern 12' by a Britton researcher who had studied each of the column headings (SNPs).(2)

It was this unexpected 'Ford' avenue for John's father that was explored. All of the SNPs (at the top of the yDNA pages) were put into the education cue and studied. The word 'mutate' simply means change and is described. (3) The 'northern' 12 for SNP DYS391 was known to mutate approximately every 250-300 years. Now, a value of 11 or 12 is considered to be of the same ancestors.(4) The only difference is the surname (or variations of) Britten and Ford. They are 'of' the same people; in other words, whether 11 or 12, it doesn't matter.(4)

References

(1). yDNA results: FTDNA Ford Group 5, 4th column #12 under DYS391.

(2). yDNA results: FTDNA Britton Group 10, 4th column #12 under DYS391.

(3). DYS391, Ritter, Philip. Stanford Genealogy and yDNA on-line, 2005.

(4). DYS391, Pollin and multiple authors. Investigations of the Y chromosome, male founder structure and YSTR mutation rates in the Old Order Amish. Europe PMC, on-line, 2007. ("... The founder was defined as the most recent common male ancestor (MRCMA) for all genotyped individuals within a lineage. All but two lineages for one locus (DYS391 in both cases) had unique putative founder alleles at each locus. For these two lineages at DYS391 we designated the founder allele as the one of two possible alleles....." "We note that for the two lineages above, the founder haplotypes are distinct from all other founder haplotypes regardless of which DYS391 allele is chosen, implying that comparisons made below with regard to similarity of lineages are actually independent of the choice of founder allele.").

yDNA Advantage

The most heart-felt thank you to two descendants of George and Betsey Bailey Britain for yDNA testing.

From Thomas Ford, Research Notes to here

With Great yDNA Advantage

Back and forth, left and right on a map, up and down, ad nauseam, I searched for any spelling of the surnames Britain and Ford to be found in the same location. When I was satisfied, then I did it all over again, just to be sure. I went back through all of the locations and double-checked. Old Swinford, Worcester, England was the one and only location for both surnames at the same time.

And, I recognized Symen as a name given to a child, when the father cannot be named, such that a 'Symen' would never inherit from the 'unknown' father's estate. There would be 'no inheritance' for a either a Symen, or for a child of Symen (from the grandfather's estate). Adding one's imagination to the above sentence is not a source. Finding a 'Briton' as a Clergyman in a church in Norton, Worcester, is also not a source. The child's mother is unnamed. The child would also not inherit from her portion of her father's estate. As a child of the 'unnamed,' Thomas left for the New World. His father was Symen Britten-Foorde.

"Long-live yDNA."

Map

ENG Warwickshire to Worcestershire to Gloucestershire map

Of Interest

Given the surname, Britain, then are we related to Royality? No. Of interest here and to many other researchers:

Larkin, BT. Y-DNA of the British Monarchy: A review on the occasion of the birth of the Prince of Cambridge. Surname DNA Journal: on-line, 2013, Aug.

Mrs. Ford

From Thomas Britain, Research Notes

• Thomas Britain's mother was a (married name) Ford. It is surmised that Thomas changed his surname back to his mother's first married name, Ford, at the end of the American Revolution, but before the War of 1812. Who would keep a surname of Britain while fighting the British for American Independence? A lot of men named 'Britain' did and 'each one' has been researched.

Wilson auDNA

• Autosomal DNA (auDNA) surname:matches for two descendants of John show an unusually high number of Wilson matches. The further back you go, the greater the number of descendants and the greater the number of surname matches.

• auDNA spreadsheet with Britain chromosomes (Chrs) and Wilson Chrs in top two rows showed matches on Chrs 06 and 09 for a total of 7.6 cMs. For Chr 06, 2 Wilsons and 1 Britain matched, while for Chr 09, 5 Wilsons and 3 Britains matched. Also on Chr 11, 1 Wilson and 3 Britains matched, but Chr 11 also matched our Jackson/Wilson line, so it was excluded for Britain/Wilson. For the Britains, the maternal-side chromosomes were easily set-aside through comparison with auDNA through a half-sister. This is not confirmed (as on WikiTree), just 'verified,' as a worthwhile avenue.