Burlington MM in New Jersey

I am relooking at some of what I looked at before the yDNA match of our Elliott participants to Jeff Houghton.  Jeff's match has me looking at an area in England rather than an area near Philadelphia.  I decided to look at the passengers who came over in the Kent in 1677 to settle in Burlington.  I knew that the Kent sailed from London and I have looked at the names of those who are said to have made that voyage.  But when I relook at the sites I have viewed before, I get some additional information that is indeed of interest. 

From: https://www.geni.com/projects/Quakers-of-New-Jersey-Kent-Passengers-1677/291

It should be noted that many passengers alleged to have been aboard were from Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, and other northern counties. They probably loaded at a northern port, perhaps Hull or Liverpool, before the Kent arrived at London, which is why they do not appear in the London loadings.

Reference: Passengers and Ships Prior to 1684, Penn's Colony: Volume I by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., 1970.

 I have found that the book can be found at the Boyd County Library and will go there to view it in August.

And on the site:

http://genealogytrails.com/njer/burlington/early_settlement.html

I have found the following:

Early settlement of the county (Burlington, NJ)
In 1675, Fenwick sailed from London in the ship "Griffin," Robert Griffiths, master, with his family and a company of Friends, and after a pleasant passage landed near the old fort " Elseborg," and named it Salem. This was the first English ship that entered the Delaware with emigrants, and no others followed for nearly two years.

Among the purchasers of West Jersey lands were two companies, one of Friends in Yorkshire, the other of Friends in London. In 1677 commissioners were sent by the proprietors, with power to buy lands of the Indians, to inspect the rights of such Europeans as claimed property, and to order the lands laid out, and in general to administer the government. Of the commissioners, those for Yorkshire were Joseph Helmsley, William Emley, Robert Stacy, and Thomas Foulke

And

The Yorkshire purchasers chose from the Assunpink to the Rancocas, which was called the first tenth; and the London chose the second tenth, from Rancocas to Timber Creek. For mutual protection and assistance they agreed to build a town in company, and the present site of Burlington City was chosen.

As best as I can tell those from London would have land starting at Burlington and going south on the Delaware river while those from Yorkshire area would have land starting at Burlington and going north on the Delaware River.

Elliott family in England

 I keep starting a new post about my Elliott family before the move to these shores.  In the years when they lived almost certainly in the area shown on the below map ads Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire.

Just a few months ago I was looking mostly at Elliott in the area far south of this area near Somerset and Bristol.  However, a DNA match to my Elliott yDNA participants with whom I have become buddies caused me to give that research totally up.  Jeffrey Houghton is the match.  He does not carry the Elliott surname, but he is a clear match to our line.  His line has been in the area that I am now looking at for MANY generations.  And so I have redirected my research.  The odd thing about our yDNA match is that our group carries the C Haplogroup.  This is not the typical haplogroup for men in Great Britain.  It is more prevalent in males who are found in asia.  

Wikipedia says:  It is the most frequently occurring branch of the wider Haplogroup C (M130). It is found mostly in Central Asia, Eastern Siberia and significant frequencies in parts of East Asia and Southeast Asia including some populations in the Caucasus, Middle East, South Asia, East Europe. 

This haplogroup clearly points out that our Elliott family line almost certainly is not connected to the Elliott line found in the border lands of Scotland and England as these families carry the haplogroup R which is more prevalent in Great Britain and area.  It was hard to give up this Romantic tradition and accept this is just not likely to be our history.  So now I am focusing on the area that is described above.  

At the same time I am reading a book that I LOVE! It is about the Vikings

https://serendipityreading.blogspot.com/2022/07/vikings-by-neil-oliver_19.html

Jeffrey wrote me an e-mail that I am reading today.  And it is one of those times when everything that I have been doing and thinking all come together.  Here is an excerpt from Jeffrey's e-mail:

Now the shock horror news of the Elliot's, they are bad, bad Vikings who came over with William and maybe a connection to the Britons of old.(Brittany for 500 years. ) Right history lessons and NOT Scottish by origin LOL

 And the truth is that this is not such a shock....it is what I had been reading about right now as well.  What a shock from my book that the Normans who invaded England in 1066 were actually Vikings who had lived in Normandy and intermarried there.  But that absolutely fits with what Jeffrey is telling me now.  And my gut feeling has been that indeed our C Haplogroup may have come to the area with the Romans and continued in the area in Briton population when the Romans pulled out.  But the actual Elliott name may have come in with the Norman invasion?  Lots to think about!

Next I want to add  a URL for a site that Jeffrey sent:

https://selectsurnames.com/elliott/

England.  Following the Norman Conquest, Elliots – sometimes as Alliots or Elyots – spread across eastern England, notably to Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire.  .....

Ok...not sure we'll ever get all of this figured out, but it sure if fun!  

McGregor family

 I have two dna matches on Ancestry that were a VERY pleasant surprise for me.  Both carry surname of McGregor.  I never expected to have the luck to find anyone anyplace who descend from Robert and Mary Ann McGregor.  They were the original immigrants from Scotland and Ireland who arrived in New York before 1853.  

Katie McGregor has sent me some pages that are taken from an interview with Nita McGregor who would have been Katie's great aunt if I am figuring this correctly.  Katie had very nice things to say about Nita including the fact that she lived to near 100 years old.

Sorry I can not seem to find a size to use that is easy to read.  

Wirksworth, England and the Elliott family

I am beginning to look at the Quaker and also the early Elliott family lines found in the area in which Jeff Houghton's Houghton line are also visible in the 1600s.  I have asked Jeff to help me with this project and this blog post will be where I jot down ideas and thoughts.  Jeff has mentioned Wirksworth, so I will start with that.  His comment was:

Been going through the Elliot's of Wirksworth and the earliest mention is of one that had one of the first rifles in Liz the 1st time (1500s) NO mention of Houghton before 1620, also noticed at a quick glance of the records that several of our line married Elliot's although far to late for our quest.  .....

The red marker on the below map shows location of Wirksworth in England.  It is in the County of Derbyshire.  This seems to be a good place to start.

 Who moved from this area to Pennsylvania c.1682?  One family was George and Hannah Wood with son-in-law, Richard Bonsall.  They moved with six other families from Derbyshire (not named by the author of this blog post) and settled in Darby, PA.  Darby is shown win the below map outlined in Red practically next door to what is now the Philadelphia International airport.

https://hannah-howe.com/ancestry/quick-netherlands-derbyshire-pennsylvania/

This family had roots in the Netherlands and had moved to Wirksworth for iron mining.  After becoming Quaker in Wirksworth, they decided to move to Pennsylvania by 1682.

Viking DNA

Living DNA sent an e-mail this week with the following photos and information:  

Absolutely!  I am fascinated with this idea1

Living DNA suggests that my results show that out of the entire population who has tested at their site, I have more Viking connections than 68% of those who have tested.  And that the Vikings that I seem to most match are those who fit this description:

While Norwegian and Danish Norsemen went westward, the Swedish explored eastwards into the Baltic sea. Here they found the estuaries of the rivers that lead inland across Eastern Europe into modern day Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, travelling along the Volga and Dnieper rivers until they reached the Black and Caspian Seas. On this journey these Vikings became known as "Rus" or "Varangians" by the Slavic people they encountered. Expanding partly through raiding, but mostly by trade, their influence grew. When they reached the Byzantine city of Constantinople on the Black Sea, it was raided in 860. In the aftermath of the raid, the Norsemen were accepted as trading partners by the Byzantines, an agreement which greatly increased the wealth and influence of the Varangians. The Varangians were here to stay.

In 862 Prince Rurik of the Varangians was invited to rule over the Slavic peoples to the south of the Baltic Sea. He founded his capital city of Norvgorod on the Volkhov river, and his descendant Oleg expanded their territory further into the south along the Dnieper river. Oleg eventually took control of Kiev in 882. It was from here that he decided to now rule, and continue to gain more territory. By 885 Oleg had united the majority of eastern slavic peoples under his rule and thus the country of Kievan Rus was born.

I found a good map and information about this at:

https://www.asncvikingage.com/vikings-east

The below map gives one an idea of how my ancestors living in Courland might have been well placed to have had Viking ancestors.  And in 2023 I have found an autosomal dna match who still lives in Finland.  I want to add some surnames here so that the search engine will find this blog post when I use surnames:  Beuhring, Danneburg, Konig, Koenig,  These are the surnames that my 2-gr-grandfather, Frederick Konig Danneburg Beuhring descended from and his parents chose to add them to his name.