Wickliffe family

My first known Wickliffe ancestor is Samuel Wickliffe born about 1827 in County Antrim, Ireland.

By 1851 he was in Quebec, Canada where he married Mary Tiunelly, also from County Antrim.

A search of the Drouin collection at Ancestry.com gives 20 results for Wickliffe.  In at least one case the name was spelled Wycliffe

A search of Geni.com on Dec 30, 2012 brings up 392 profiles with Wickliffe, of those 310 are in the "Big Tree".

A search of the Wills Calendars at PRONI gives 3 results for Wickliffe.  They are for Bessie, John and Samuel Wickliffe.

John mentions his wife Jane and his daughter Bessie.  He also mentions his daughter in law Sarah Jane, widow of his son Moses.  He also mentions his granddaughters Lizzie and Jane Wickliffe, daughters of his son Moses and Sarah Jane.  He mentions his sons John and Samuel who were living in New Zealand.  He mentions his daughter Sarah Jane Millar, otherwise Wickliffe, who lived in Australia.

I can not yet connect these Wickliffes to *my* Wickliffes.

A search of the 1911 Irish census gives 10 entries for Wickliffe.  They appear to be in 4 households.

One household with 3 Wickliffes is the household of a 37 year old John, wife Sarah and their daughter Alice.  With them is living a niece with the last name Williamson who was born in Norway....

Another household is that of a John Wickliffe, indexed as 42, but I believe it reads 62, his wife Sarah Jane and their daughter Agnes Jane.

Another household is that of a Joseph Wickliffe, age 59, his wife Catherine and their niece Mary Wickliffe, age 14.

The last household is that of Sarah Jane Wickliffe, widow age 73, quite likely Sarah Jane Adams, the widow of Moses Wickliffe.

There were also 7 entries for Wickliff.

A search of the 1901 Irish census gives 13 entries for Wickliffe.  There are an addition 7 (in 2 households) under the name Wickliff.

Samuel Wickliffe

Samuel Wickliffe was born about 1827 in County Antrim, Ireland.

Samuel married Mary Tiunelly 21 Jun 1851 Quebec, Canada.

Samuel died in 1897 in Quebec, Canada.

Their children include:

Margaret Wickliffe

William Wickliffe

Samuel Wickliffe

Sources:

marriage record in the Drouin Collection.

1851 Census of Canada

1871 Census of Canada

1881 Census of Canada

1891 Census of Canada

IF YOU ARE A DESCENDANT OF SAMUEL WICKCLIFFE, OR ANOTHER ANTRIM, IRELAND WICKLIFFE PLEASE READ MY POST ABOUT AUTOSOMAL DNA TESTING HERE

What is MY number?

This was prompted by a blog post by Michael LeClerc which was in turn prompted by a blog post by Judy Russell which apparently was prompted by a Facebook post by Lisa B Lee.  This all appears to have happened in August but it was in an email from Mocavo.com today.

The idea is that an individual has 1024 (not 1022)  ancestors at the *8th* (Michael LeClerc lists 7th but its 8th) great grandparent level, and the 10th generation not 9th..at least by my calculations.

2 parents

4 grandparents

8 great grandparents

16 greatX2 grandparents

32 greatX3 grandparents

64 greatX4 grandparents

128 greatX5 grandparents

256 greatX6 grandparents

512 greatX7 grandparents

1024 great X8 grandparents

My numbers broken down by generation:

2/2 parents = 100%

4/4 grandparents =100%

8/8 great grandparents =100%

15/16 greatX2 grandparents (93.75%)

30/32 greatX3 grandparents (93.75%)

44/64 greatX4 grandparents (68.75%)

30/128 greatX5 grandparents (23.43%)

23/256 greatX6 grandparents (8.98%)

17/512 greatX7 grandparents (3.32%)

25/1024 greatX8 grandparents (2.44%)

That means my number is 2.44%.   Here is a pretty graph generated by a program written by a friend. 

It pulled my info from Geni.com and came with a nice document on how many of each generation I had.  What is interesting is the top half is my fathers side.  Those of you who follow my story know I have only had that information for a little less than a year.  Yet, it is as developed as my maternal side, which I have been researching for over 20 years!

Most of the missing ancestors are for parents of people born in England or Ireland etc.  My goals for 2013 include raising my number as much as possible.  

So.... whats YOUR number??

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They are on a mission to get 1 million kits in their database before the end of 2013. Their press release focused on the medical advancements they hope this will accomplish and didnt mention the great things that 1 million kits would mean for genetic genealogy. This is not a sale price, but the price indefinitely. Still, I would not delay and click below to order your kit(s) ASAP.



Autosomal DNA testing, unlike mtDNA testing or y-DNA testing, will match you with cousins who aren't necessarily on your direct paternal or direct maternal lines.

With a larger database we will be able to discover more leads into who unknown females are in our tree (and who doesnt have at least a half dozen Mary ?'s and/or Elizabeth ?'s in their tree?). We will also get more clues into what areas of the world to search for ancestors, and much more.

The test will show a 2nd cousin about 99% of the time and a 3rd cousin about 90% of the time. More distant cousins will also be shown, and there are often many of these predicted 4th to distant cousins (after all, most people have many, many distant cousins out there!)

Autosomal DNA testing can help confirm existing paper genealogies.

By doing an autosomal DNA test you would be helping yourself, me (and others) with our genealogy. And its FUN!

23andme also has some neat health related info, which you can opt out of if you arent comfortable with that type of thing.

I currently have 1310 Relative Finder matches (genetic cousin matches at 23andme.) I have also tested my father, my paternal grandmother, my maternal half brother, my maternal half sister, my maternal grandfather, my maternal grandfathers sister and two 3rd cousins to my maternal grandfather, and a son of my maternal grandmothers sister.

In the next few months I plan to test quite a few more. Some of the people I hope will test or test for me are:

Descendants of Lewis Peverelli, born 1804 in Italy. Also, Peverelle/Peverellis that are NOT descendants of Lewis, but also have Como, Italy, Peverelli ancestry. We have some Peverelle/Peverelli mysteries that I would love to solve!

Descendants of Thomas Mulligan and Dorothy Leatham of Ireland.

Descendants of William Bond Gabie and Margaret Mary Lowry (Lowrey).

Descendants of Joseph H Townsend and Margaret Pooley.

Descendants of Samuel Wickliffe of Ireland. 

Descendants of William Dinsmore Haskill and Sybil Culver.

Descendants of Edmund Rice and Thomasine Frost or Mercy (Hurd?) 

I am now more excited than ever to see what 2013 brings!