Barnes DNA matches

Several months ago I was chatting with Jim Barnes about Hawkins and Barnes connections.  As a result I used Barnes on the FTDNA family finder site as a search term and was quite amazed when I got 62 matches.  I only get 69 matches when I use the surname Hawkins (which is my maiden name) as the search term.  So I seem to have almost as many matches who claim Barnes ancestry as I have participants who claim Hawkins ancestors.   I have thought about it off and on since Jim and I chatted.  Of, course, it is possible that this is just a coincidence that I match that many people who have connections to Barnes.  But it is also possible that there is a reason for this.

So I have been thinking about the possibilities all of this past weekend.  And how I am going to explore this idea.  Of course, I will use the chromosome browser to see where I match each of these participants and if the match between us is shared by others.

It would seem that the match might be random.  Or the match might be a match on the Hawkins side.

I do know that there are marriages between Hawkins and Barnes more than once.  To produce matches to me who carry the Barnes surname or have particular interest in the Barnes surname, it would need to be a Barnes male who married a Hawkins female.  The marriage that I can think of right off hand is at least one of Benjamin and Ann/Nancy Bourne Hawkins daughters.  Their children were marrying in Mercer County, Kentucky around the 1810 time frame.  I did a blog post about their children that I tried to identify from the will that Benjamin left.

Here is the blog post that I wrote:

http://hawkinsdna.blogspot.com/2019/03/autosomal-match-to-hawkins-family-1.html


If I think of other marriages that might have produced the same sort of match, I will add them here at a later time.

As I explore, I will up date this blog post.

In August 2019, I am adding something that I would like to look at.  I just don't have time to search this morning.  BUSY day.  This is the footnote that is found in my Hawkins/Bourne data base for John Hawkins who married Margaret Jennings.  I have a GUESS (not a fact) that this couple had son Joseph.  And my footnote is this:



Now this doesn't make sense without looking at it....but I don't want to loose this clue.