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Subject: Re: [DNA] Re: Halotype Analysis Cautions (and Some SNP Considerations)
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 05:31:13 EST



In a message dated 3/20/2005 11:34:35 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
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matches & near matches with surnames different from our own.


One comment that may apply to other surname projects. Not only are we
looking into these matches when there is a suspicion of a non-paternity event, but
we have come across a number of records in the UK which show "WEBB alias
Evered" or "Evered alias WEBB." There are several reasons I have learned for
aliases to be used. Apparently in some records this may be a way to signify
the wife's maiden name. In others, it appears to be a way to attach a claim to
a mother's maiden name family's estate. In yet others, most famously the
Richmond alias Webb case, it represents where a line daughtered out, and the
son took on the wife's name and inherited the estate. Naturally, the records
don't distinguish the reason for the alias! How dastardly of them! ::grin::

I have found "alias" connecting WEBB to the following surnames:

Evered/Everit/Everett
Richmond
Nicholls
Wadworth
Woolworth
Kellow/Calloway
Davenport

So I am keeping a close eye on these surnames to see if we turn up any
extremely close matches. If nothing else, this may help us identify geographic
origins and perhaps family associations of intermarriages over generations. I
have already found that Calloway and Webb and Davenport and Webb -- at least
in the South -- seem to travel together over several decades and marry into
the same other families, and sometimes each other. Don't quite know what it
means yet, but I consider it worth watching and researching.

Oddly, we now have TWO WEBB lines with distinct DNA (one "I" and one "R1b")
which have ties between a New England branch of the surname and a southern
branch of the surname. MRCA calculations seem to suggest the relationship is
back in England and perhaps as far back as 1300s, with a small probability of
having an MRCA closer to 1600.

Anne W. Nelson

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