Haplogroup FT259493

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Contents 1 Blackwood & Blackwell under FT259493 2 FT88521 Blackwood & Blackwell Families 3 Phylogenetic Parent of Unidentified Subclade for Blackwood/Blackwell 4 BY3368 Project Home Page

Blackwood & Blackwell under FT259493

As of 16 Sep 2022, there are eight (8) FTDNA Y DNA 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). There appears to be the possibility that this Y Blackwell family may have been as a result of a name shift for some, from Blackwood. The earliest Blackwell do not appear in records in SW Scotland until 1698, and even then, remain few.

While the Y DNA clearly indicates the Blackwood family was rooted in SW Scotland, the surname is not one that originated there. It may have been adopted from the Blackwood Estate (home of the Weirs as early as the 13th century), in South Lanarkshire, but as the Weirs were of Norman descent, it's clear the FT88521 Blackwood line is not Norman. To that end, FT88521 being a subclade of FGC15791, and that FGC15791 is believed to have emerged in the 15th century (ca. 1460 - 1496+/-), in a Muir line from Glasgow, this Blackwood line is likely indicative of a Muir NPE (perhaps descendants of someone within the line of George Muir, b. ca. 1568.

A review of records in 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, 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

• FT88521

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