Genetically Confirmed McCarter Lines
Through autosomal DNA testing at both 23andMe and Ancestry we have matched with distant cousins and genetically confirmed these ancestors.
Third Great Grandparents
Mary Jane "Polly" McClure and Drury Senter
Fourth Great Grandparents
Patience Bourne and Jonathan Thomas
Sarah Greer and David Pugh
Fifth Great Grandparents
Uriah Ledyard and John Marks
Seventh Great Grandparents
Sarah Day and John Greer
Ninth Great Grandparents
Rebecca Tracy and William Merrick
Catherine Wheldon and Giles Hopkins (Mayflower)
Tenth Great Grandparents
Mary and Stephen Hopkins (Mayflower)
Margaret and Garbriel Wheldon
Tryphosa Lee and Stephen Tracy
Mary Durrant and William Ring
McCarter Haplogroup
Through Y-DNA testing (dna passed from Philander McCarter to his direct male descendants) we learned the haplogroup for our line of McCarters is R-M269 with A212 as our terminal SNP which is most common in Ireland and Scotland. The administrator of the McCarthy Surname Study puts us in the Irish Type II group. (We are kit no. 11112.)
This testing shows that we do not match any of the other large McCarter families who were present in Colonial America. Our closest matches have been with surnams Bean and Smiley.
McCarter-Tharp Ethnicity
These are the ethnicity results of a first generation McCarter-Tharp descendant and gives us some idea of where our line of McCarter-Tharp ancestors originated. This is an emerging science and the results will likely become more definitive with time. So far Family Tree DNA has pinpointed French, Orcadian, Basque, Spanish, Tuscan, Finnish, Romanian, and Sardinian ancestry.
| Western European | 30.29% | South Asian | 1.21% |
| North Sea | 29.06% | Southwest Asian | 0.55% |
| Mediterranean | 15.18% | Siberian | 0.15% |
| South Baltic | 12.35% | East Asian | 0.15% |
| Volga-Ural | 6.68% | North American Indian | 0.10% |
| Caucus | 4.27% | West African | 0% |
| Generated by the Eurogenes K12 model created by Davidski/Polako. | |||
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