If they did, they'd show up in our matches. If there was a close match,
we'd have noticed. There are some Cowleys in the Cooley project,
particularly CF09. That group also has about as many Coleys and Cooleys. I
haven't looked at ysearch in awhile.
Of course, the only reason I'm interested in Cowley is that they were
present in Derbyshire during the period the Hacketts flourished, with whom
we match.
The village of Cowley is in the northeast of Derbyshire and just below
Yorkshire, oce Norse territory as, I think, you mentioned in an earlier
post.
Anyway, as I said, there may be nothing to it, but we clearly have a
genetic connection to Derbyshire. But the Hackett / Cooley connection may
have been ancient, going all the way back to Norway.
I'm sure interested in finding out if either Anthony or the other poster
has tested.
-Michael
On Sun, January 18, 2015 15:34, Cooley wrote:
> I noticed the earliest man in the Cowley tree associated with the first
> link is a George Cowley, born about 1791 in Durham, England. And even now
> they live in Durham, England.
>
> Birth abt 1791 in Hawthorne, Easington, Durham, England
>
>
> Do any Cowleys match our Cooley R1a Y-DNA?
>
>
> Don
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Michael Cooley <michael_at_newsummer.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>> It's certainly possible that there's nothing to this, but we probably
>> share a common patrilineal ancestor to the descendant of John Hackett of
>> Derbyshire--whether if ancient or in the so-called genealogical
>> timeframe.
>>
>> While browsing I found postings on the Cowley message board at Ancestry
>> from two male Cowleys descended from the Derbyshire group. As many of
>> you know, I'm not an Ancestry member.
>>
>> The usernames for the two men are andymjcowley and cowleyaa, the latter
>> being Anthony Cowkey, per his post. The posts are found at these URLs:
>>
>>
>> http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.cowley/457/mb.ashx
>> http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.cowley/435.1.2/mb.ashx
>>
>>
>> Would one of you care to contact these men?
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Michael
>>
>>
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