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Subject: [DNA] Owen Wingfield (b.1719) DNA results from Relative Genetics
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 02:35:01 EST

Wingfield Family DNA Project
UPDATE 2 Dec 2002:  
(Sent to: ,
& our Wingfield Family Society email address list.)

We have tested a living descendant of Owen Wingfield (b.1719, New Kent/VA)
and his results are now posted in Table 3 of our DNA website: <A HREF="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~leepreston/index.html">;
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~leepreston/index.html</A>;  
Owen was the son of Mary Wingfield (bapt. 25 Feb 1699/1700, New Kent/VA),
daughter of Thomas Wingfield "of York River."  [Wingfield Family Society
Newsletter, 1997, Vol.XI,2,page 16.]  

These results establish that Owen's father held non-Wingfield Y-DNA , which
has long been shown as believed correct in our Wingfield computer data base,
footed on my analysis and conclusion over a long period of study of this
family.  The Owen Wingfield line's results share the Letheringham Wingfield
ancestral haplotype 6 of 26 (non-match 18 of 26). Next step could be trying
to ascertain the New Kent/VA family name which these results do match!
Maybe we can do it over a period of time. Anyone recognize their
alleles????? If so, you could become part of our Wingfield family.......

That Mary, daughter of Thomas Wingfield (1664-1720), was an unwed mother at
this birth of Owen (1719) is now proven -- by a combination of documented
records and by these new Y-DNA results.  This also provides us with another
unique opportunity, as it shows without any doubt that Mary and her son,
Owen's, descendants are now the only 100% "PROVEN" descendants of Thomas
Wingfield of York River.

Earlier and continuing erroneous postulations to the effect that Owen could
have been "the posthumous son of an otherwise unknown Wingfield man" must now
be discarded.   There has never actually been any credible genealogical basis
for such a view.

We honor Owen and his mother, Mary, and his grandfather, Thomas of York
River, and all their descendants in and out of the Wingfield Family Society.

They are a part and parcel of this great loving Wingfield family, and we want
them to always be there with us and for us, as they have already been
participating so willingly in the Wingfield Family Society since its
founding.

Lee Preston, Wingfield DNA & Genealogist

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