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Mitotree Haplogroup: H10e2a F2044057 (For EXACT MATCH, must match both the Haplogroup and Sequence)

Sir Ferdinando Wenman 1576 - 1610 CE
Shared Ancestor 1450 BCE
You and Sir Ferdinando Wenman share a common maternal line ancestor who lived around this time.
Rare Connection 1 in 321, Only 850 customers are this closely related to Sir Ferdinando Wenman.
Ancient DNA Finally Solves Jamestown Settlers Mystery and Exposes Dark Secret!
mtDNA Match in Jamestown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XrxTLk_RSk
Jamestown: https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/a-short-history-of-jamestown.htm

Historical and archaeogenomic identification of high-status Englishmen at Jamestown, Virginia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2024
. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/historical-and-archaeogenomic-identification-of-highstatus-englishmen-at-jamestown-virginia/E04D83E224FA5C15B5CC08D0703FE9B0

The authors report on ancient DNA data from two human skeletons buried within the chancel of the 1608–1616 church at the North American colonial settlement of Jamestown, Virginia. Available archaeological, osteological and documentary evidence suggest that these individuals are Sir Ferdinando Wenman and Captain William West, kinsmen of the colony's first Governor, Thomas West, Third Baron De La Warr. Genomic analyses of the skeletons identify unexpected maternal relatedness as both carried the mitochondrial haplogroup H10e. In this unusual case, aDNA prompted further historical research that led to the discovery of illegitimacy in the West family, an aspect of identity omitted, likely intentionally, from genealogical records.

Wenman (JR2992C), the first English knight to die in America, was a first cousin of Thomas West. Wenman was related both by blood and marriage to highly prominent families in England during the Elizabethan period (Remington Reference Remington2014). In contrast, the lineage for Captain William West (JR170C) is obscure. He is referenced in one account as Thomas West's nephew, in a second as a “kinsman” (Kelso Reference Kelso2017: 175), and, based on a genealogical review, seemed more likely to be his uncle (Remington Reference Remington2014). Wenman came to Virginia in June 1610 as a 34-year-old experienced military officer and investor in the Virginia Company. He arrived with Thomas West and Captain William West, who was a man estimated to be in his early 20s. By July or August of 1610, Wenman was dead. Captain West died in a conflict with Native Americans around the same time. Their formal interments in the church chancel were likely personally directed by Thomas West.

Genomic data were generated from the petrous portion of a temporal bone from JR2992C and a mandibular molar from JR170C (see OSM section 2, Table S3). Both skeletons exhibit relatively poor DNA preservation, with a total of 76 449 of the roughly 1.2 million targeted autosomal single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) positions sequenced for individual JR2992C, and only 12 657 targeted SNPs sequenced for individual JR170C (Table 1). Despite poor DNA preservation, coverage was sufficient to assign both individuals to mitochondrial haplogroup H10e (Table S4; Weissenstiner et al. Reference Weissensteiner2016). The mitochondrial lineage H is commonly observed in much of west Eurasia, occurring at the highest frequencies in present-day Western Europe, where it accounts for more than 40 per cent of all mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) lineages (Torroni et al. Reference Torroni, Achilli, Macaulay, Richards and Bandelt2006; Brotherton et al. Reference Brotherton2013). Within this lineage, the relatively rare haplogroup H10e has been observed in Europe in multiple ancient individuals, including two medieval individuals from Finland (Carvalho et al. Reference Carvalho2016; Översti et al. Reference Översti2019).

mtDNA Haplogroup H10e2a (FGS)
Mutations HVR1 Mutations HVR2

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Female Maternal Line Pedigree VA, NC, KY, TN, AR, OK, TX
Elizabeth McNulty b. 1696 d. 1766 Ireland or PA
Elizabeth Jack b. Dec 10, 1715 Ireland d. 1743 Green Co, TN
Elizabeth Kilgore b. 1730 d. Feb 3, 1793 Bedford Co, VA
Nancy Yates b. 1750 d. 1775 Bedford Co, VA
Nancy Allage b. 1770 d. 1815 Bedford Co, VA
*below confirmed by mtDNA*
Nancy Meador b. 1810 KY (parents b. NC?) m. Moses Molder/Mowlder/Moulder b. 1808 in TN (father germany, mother NC)
Mahala Moulder b. 1826 TN m. 1849, Lawrence Co., AR to (1) John H. Newman (2) Vanzant/Vanzandt
Elvira Ann Vanzandt b. 10 May 1864 AR buried Marietta, OK m. William A. Simmons b.
Lillie Mae Simmons b. 22 May 1898 TX m. William (Willie) Roberson
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Hazel Mae Roberson b. 21 Aug 1916 OK d. 4 Nov 2012 m. John Doy Boyett
Carol Lynn Boyett b. 1937 OK
Vickie Lynn & Sherry Gwinn Burkhart b. 1957 TX (Identical Twins)