sounds interesting. definitely have irish and scottish in addition to french huguenot and i don't know what else but suspect a fair share of celtic. Figured the Huguenot background is pretty strong due to the fact my grandfathers family lived in the same general area of the pre-revolutionary plantation that bore the family name. Found the plantation as it was part of a University research project that was underway a few years ago. The plantations history extended from pre-revolutionary into the Antebellum period but the researchers say that the plantation may have been bankrupted before the civil war . The research project indicated that the main house had a dirt floor. I traced ancestory back to a persons back in the same few square miles as the plantation during the civil war but could not find records before that nor confirmed these people actually lived on the exact same property. Anyway that along with my grandfather's close relationship with the Huguenot Society of South Carolina could suggest inter-marriage with other Huguenots but that remains to be verified. He also continued to identify with France volunteering himself to the French Army in WWI before the US entered the war and he continued to dislike Catholics so he was not at all happy that I married one. In fact he disowned his own son (my uncle) for doing the same thing though he never admitted it, holding instead to some lame excuse that my uncles wife insulted my grandmother. So I immediately identified with your comment and indeed I am an old fart myself. I may not have Huguenot blood per se, but I am sure I have the blood of a French Huguenot.
I too am an older fart than I care to admit. In my genealogical interests I've been lucky. First, the family name is rather rare, no more
than about 50,000 of us in the US today ... and all the Caucasian ones traced back to a single man in Virginia by persistent researchers that
were pounding this beat when it required visits to the court house. Thus, my line was already researched ... but no one has ever made
a documentable connection across the pond. One reasonable thesis on Charles' origins, by the best of the researchers, believes strongly
that he was Huguenot and that he and perhaps brothers made the name up to avoid the assassins of Louis XV. He shows up in the record
as a witness to a document and
he signs his name ... quite rare at the time and limited to the English Manor Lords and some of the
landed gentry. Within 7 years of his signature, he has married a lady whose father left her a Manor Plantation in Essex County and
they raised 6 sons and 3 daughters. Marriage was very much a social contract in those days generally requiring semi-equivalent status.
There are never any documents of him owning land himself. An educated man of few possessions and no, as yet, traceable past ...
the hallmarks of many Huguenots cast to the wind (fleeing France) with nothing that they did not carry.
Many were welcomed into England where they started many industries ... others moved on to the English colonies and further afield.
My Y-DNA research is two-pronged approach ... bottom up: to identify other family surnames related to us with Y-DNA marker tests ...
top down: from haplogroups or terminal snps to link us to prehistory membership in tribes as far as the genetics will take me as it
is established in the field and in the lab. So far have uncovered (thru Family Tree DNA two or three family surnames that match our
genetic fingerprints at a level that very likely significant, 6th to 9th cousin removed, depending on what the 'true' marker mutation
rates are, i.e. beyond the pond or perhaps brothers who chose different surnames? For your info I've attached links to some web
sites that summarize the R1b & R1b-U152 (Celtic) trails and prehistory linkages and blog sites discussing same. Also, the names of
and link to some very interesting research articles by David Faux on the genetic links to various Celtic tribes and differences from
other groups (the Norse, the Germans, etc).
You may also be interested in the service records available through Fold3 for The War for Southern Independence since you have
a location. Given the uniqueness of our surname, I was able in a few months, using the Censuses and Fold3 to document 106 rebs
and 38 Yanks from a variety of states and match most of them to the Censuses. With these plus 'find-a-grave', and ancestry links
to births, deaths, marriages, property records and various other tidbits it's amazing what one can come up with back to the early
1800s. Not to mention pension records. These are very useful for tracking geographic movement as well. The military records
are one of the few places that you can sometimes get personal information ... physical traits such as fair complextion, light hair,
blue eyes (common to many) ... their sicknesses and wounds, furloughs and AWOLs, promotions/demotions, and all too often
a final accounting. Even today in the Southland it is often a 'badge of honor' to have family that served 'The Cause'. The requisite
facing pictures of Lee and Jackson on the mantle piece and old portraits. History may go somewhere to die, but it takes a very
long time ... or, as my grandpa used to say ... not on my watch! His uncle rode with Missouri Partisan Cavalry and died at the
ripe old age of 40.
Good hunting. Watch out ... it can become addictive.
www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_R1b_Y-DNA.shtmleng.molgen.org/viewtopic.php?f=121&t=711www.yourgeneticgenealogist.com/2012/09/lets-all-start-using-terminal-snp.htmlY-DNA Haplogroup R-U152 in Britain: Proposed
Link to the 5th Century Migration of the Angle and
Jute Tribes from Jutland and Fyn, Denmark, David K. Faux
davidkfaux.org/Angles_England_R_U152.pdfThe Cimbri of Denmark, the Norse and Danish Vikings,
and Y-DNA Haplogroup R-S28/U152, David K. Faux
www.davidkfaux.org/Cimbri-Chronology.pdfA Genetic Signal of Central European Celtic Ancestry:
Preliminary Research Concerning Y-Chromosome
Marker U152, David K. Faux
www.davidkfaux.org/LaTene_Celt_R1b1c10.pdfY-Chromosome Marker S28 / U152
Haplogroup R-U152 Resource Page
www.davidkfaux.org/R1b1c10_Resources.pdf