Hi Robert, (and Michael McCarrol) -
Have any of your (or this) Mitchell clan tested with familytreeDNA, maybe - in the Mitchell surname project or perhaps registered in another surname project?
If so, can we share results?
Or maybe you or others related to this Mitchell clan might consider either the family finder test or the Y DNA test?
The reason I ended up on this message thread, is that a person in my family tree, with the surname Mitchell, has a distant match with Carleen Doherty, who posted here and has her ancestors listed a Peter Doherty and Ann Mitchell. So far the Mitchell surname is the only one we can find in common.
Here is a little info written by my cousin and fellow researcher Mary Mitchell, both her and her brother matched Carleen (this was written to a Susan, who is related to Carleen):
My name is Mary Mitchell G. My Mitchell line came from the Edinburgh area of Scotland, at least as far back as we have proven, about 1770. We do have the strong possibility for the next 2-3 generations back (the era of the Battle of the Boyne...later 1600s into the early 1700s) of "foot soldiers" in our line, but they are not yet proven. The family we first consider in that era had children baptised in both Glasgow and in Edinburgh, indicating that they were moving between those two cities.
My brother did the Y DNA test for me, and we know that he is R1b1b2a1b, which doesn't really prove much of anything as it is a common haplotype for Great Britain. We are in the Mitchell surname group, and so far, we have NO Mitchell matches....which also doesn't mean much of anything. (In an odd twist of fate, we have a few Maxwell matches at 25 markers with a genetic distance of 2. I have been told that this is an indication that my Mitchell name is an old one, because in Gaelic, Mitchell and Maxwell and spelled similarly and sound very much like Miexell.)
I am writing to you because my brother and I both recently did the "family finder" test at Family Tree DNA, and we both matched William Doherty, currently 95 years old, and a grandson of Ann Mitchell and Peter Doherty of Cloone. It seems that we certainly match, since it is both of us who match with William. The only ancestral surname that we share, that we know of, is Mitchell. I am in contact with William's daughter, Carleen, who is helping my cousin Tammy Mitchell and I try to research this line further.
Since the time that you posted your research, would you have come across anything further on Ann Mitchell's ancestry? Or, might you have suggestions as to where/how to research her further?
Thanks so much, for any help you may be able to give us.
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Tammy
ps, in Scotland, our 4th great grandfather was a cattle dealer/publican, so it' not that far off!!
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