To: pike-dna-l@rootsweb.com
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 08:27:12 -0230 (NDT)
From: dapike@math.mun.ca (David Pike)
Subject: [PIKE-DNA] Three More Results


Hi everybody.

In this update there are three new results to discuss.  The first one is
for Carolyn Pike Jones (kit 111464), who submitted a DNA sample from her
brother for analysis.  Carolyn is our project's first participant from
Australia, and traces her Pike ancestry back to what may be the first Pike
in Australia.  Specifically, John Pike, who was born about 1770 in Berkshire
England was convicted of stealing in 1797.  By 1802 he had been transported
to New South Wales, where he married Jane Ferriday, by whom he had 13 children.
It's therefore no surprise that many Pikes in Australia trace their ancestry
back to John and Jane.

Turning now to the DNA results, 37 markers were tested.  The haplogroup
(which is a reflection of ancient paternal origins) was determined to be
haplogroup "I", which is one of the typical European groups.  Carolyn's
closest matches within our project are with several of the other Pikes in
haplogroup "I" but none of these are close matches.  The closest match
at 37-markers is with Fred (N31746), with whom Carolyn's brother has 10
differences.  FamilyTreeDNA estimates the likelihood of a common forefather
within the past 300 years at under 3%.  The conclusion that we can draw
from this is that Carolyn's genetic lineage is a new one that our project
had not encountered until now.  As a result, the pushpin in our British
Isles map at:
http://www.math.mun.ca/~dapike/family_history/pike/DNA/index.php?content=results.html#Map
for Carolyn's ancestor John has been given its own unique colour.  This
pushpin has been placed at the site of St. Helen's parish, Wallingford,
Oxfordshire since that was John's place of residence at the time of his
conviction [and his parish of birth in Berkshire is not yet known].

The next result to mention involves kit A1944, for which 25 markers were
tested.  The haplogroup that was determined for this participant in our
project is "E1b1a".  At first it was listed as "E3b" but was recently
updated in order to be consistent with with some nomenclature changes
to the "E" group and its subgroups.  Anyway, A1944 is our project's first
participant to be found to belong to the "E" haplogroup.  The "E1b1a"
subgroup tends to indicate African paternal origins.

With the new genetic lineages represented by Carolyn and A1944, our
project's tally of distinct Pike [or variant name] lineages is now up
to 35.

The third and final DNA result for this bulletin is for Gary (117096)
who lives in Cornwall, England.  His Pike ancestors were somewhat mobile,
having lived in Wiltshire, Berkshire, Surrey, Hampshire, and even Kildare
Ireland.  With 12-marker DNA results though, we find that Gary is a perfect
12-marker match with a member of our project's large "Group 1" clan.  Gary's
most distant known Pike ancestor was from Timbridge, Wiltshire, where a new
pushpin for "Group 1" has now been placed into our British Isles map.  With
the growing collection of data, a pattern is beginning to develop whereby
all of our traceable "Group 1" results have so far been traced back to
villages all within 20 miles of each other, roughly straddling the border
between Hampshire and Wiltshire.

That's it for this update.  There are four other DNA samples currently being
analysed by FTDNA's lab, so we can look forward to more news soon.

- David.