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Blackwood & Blackwell under FT88521
As of July 2022, within the matches of BY3364 test-takers, there were eight (8) test-takers with the Blackwood surname, and six (6) with the surname Blackwell who all appear to fall under FT88521 (one kit is FT88521, and another is L21, requiring an upgrade for the L21 kit in order to see downstream haplotree).
The earliest Blackwells in the Scotland's People Site do not appear in records in SW Scotland until 1698, and even then there are scant few. While the Y DNA clearly indicates the Blackwood family was rooted in SW Scotland, and very likely NPE Muir, the Blackwood surname is not one that originated there. So, from where did the surname come? In fact, there was a Blackwood Estate (home of the Weirs... of Norman descent... as early as the 13th century), in South Lanarkshire. While FT88521 Blackwoods are not Norman, but Brythonic, perhaps the surname was adopted from the site(?).
As for records, a review of the Scotland's People Site show the first reference to a Blackwood (meaning, the first appearance in records available through the Scotland's People Site, which usually starts around 1600) was in the birth of Andro Blackwood to Andro Blackwood and Jonet Mathow, in the High Church/Glasgow Parish, 13 June 1615. Also, on 2 July 1615, there was a marriage of Williame Blackwood to Margaret McClister, in the High Church/Glasgow Parish.
After this, a small group of couples have been identified in marriage and birth records, to include:
Cudbert Blackwood and Jonet Grahame (1618), High Church/Glasgow.
David Blackwood and Jonnet Browne (beginning in 1643), Fenwick.
David Blackwood and Jonet Smith (beginning in 1643), Kilmarnock.
James Blackwood and Browne (beginning in 1644), in Kilmarnock.
John Blackwood and Isobel Browne (beginning in 1644), Kilmarnock.
David Blackwood and Jonet Fergushill (beginning in 1644), Kilmarnock.
James Blackwood and Agnes Wyllie (beginning in 1644), Kilmarnock.
James Blackwood and Agnes (beginning in 1645), Fenwick.
Alexander Blackwood and Katrein Ryburn (beginning in 1647), Kilmarnock.
The first appearance of the Blackwell name in SW Scotland in the Scotland's People are occurs with the marriage of Jonathan Blackwell to Jonet Tennant, in the Glasgow Parish, on 7 April 1698. After this, birth records show the following couples through the mid 1700s:
Jonathan Blackwell and Isobell Hume (Glasgow, 1705)
Thomas Blackwell and Jean Scott (Govan, 1724)
John Blackwell and Janet McEldoe (Glasgow, McEldoe (Glasgow, 1739)
FT88521 Blackwood & Blackwell Families
- James John Blackwood, 1749-1827 (ancestor of kit #926749).
- Andrew Blackwood, 1776-1859
- William Blackwood, 1751-1846
- James Thomas Blackwood, 1732
- John Blackwell, 1725-1785
Phylogenetic Parent of Unidentified Subclade for Blackwood/Blackwell
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