Ugh. I'm not sure how that bang came into the subject line. It was meant
to be at the end of the email. (I'm a sloppy typer. Anything can happen. I
spend half the time on my emails looking for such nugget of idiocy.
-Michael
On Sat, December 20, 2014 00:12, Michael Cooley wrote:
> I'm sure that everyone by now understands that our Cooley Y-DNA is
> Norse-Scottish. Some of you will remember the legend passed down through a
> line from John's son Edward that our Cooleys were Jacobites and that the
> older males were executed and the children transported to the colonies.
> Apparently, a piece of tartan was passed down through the line but was
> buried with its last inheritor in the 1970s.
>
> My great-aunt had written that there were three brothers who came to the
> colonies from England. She thought it was Edward and two brothers but we
> know that's not possible. She had no knowledge of John.
>
> Both families, above, lived near one another in Missouri. The stories may
> have come from the same source.
>
> Some of you will also remember my research on Reuben Ransom Cooley who
> lived in the same county in Indiana as my John. We now know from DNA that
> Reuben was of the Benjamin clan. But a letter in 1946 stated that 8
> brothers and 3 sisters immigrated to NC from Birmingham, England and that
> one died in New Orleans during the War of 1812.
>
> Eight boys and 3 girls sounds very much like John's family, and we know
> that John's son Cornelius died of illness in N.O. just following the end of
> the war. Certainly, no descendants of Benjamin's could be described that
> way. I believe that the two Cooley families, who by 1946 had lived near
> one another for more than a hundred years, had come to believe they were
> related and that our story was inherited by the descendants of Reuben.
>
>
> A descendant of John II wrote in a Missouri county history that John
> immigrated from England.
>
> Now we have another story.
>
>
> I recently heard from a descendant of Edmond Cooley. We know that a
> descendant of his has exact matching DNA which leads us to believe that he
> was another son. (I still maintain that Edmond *could* have been Rice.)
> This man, who lives in Texas, provided this:
>
>
> --quote--
> My grandfather told me it was passed down to him that we were forced to
> leave Ireland as criminals. We settled in Carolinas. --endquote--
>
>
> These stories considered along with the fact that at least two John
> Cooleys were transported at the pleasure of the king gives a very strong
> hint of criminality to our heritage. Perhaps indentureship.
>
> Somewhere, there's a shared kernel of truth to all of these stories. We
> need to keep finding descendants. Someone out there might indeed possess
> the key!
>
> -Michael
>
>
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