To: pike-dna-l@rootsweb.com
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:38:31 -0230 (NDT)
From: dapike@math.mun.ca (David Pike)
Subject: [PIKE-DNA] Some Recent Results


Hi everybody.

Since the last bulletin was sent out in August the FTDNA lab has produced
results for a few new kits as well as several upgrades.  I'll mention a
few of these in a minute, but before doing that I want to note that there
will be a small flurry of new test results in the coming month or so.
Back in August FamilyTreeDNA put on a sale and several Pikes took
advantage of it, so much so that we not only reached the century mark but
we're now up to 106 project members.

Among the new results that have recently been completed by the lab is a
67-marker test for Larry (kit 129135) who has traced his ancestry back to
John Pike who settled at Newbury, Massachusetts in 1635.  As expected
Larry's DNA closely matched that of the many other descendants of John who
are in our project's "Group 1" cluster.  Indeed, Larry yielded our
project's 18th perfect 25-marker match (with Roy, Earl, Allen, and several
other "Group 1" Pikes).

Another noteworthy result is for Marc (kit 128336) who lives in England
and has traced his ancestry back to the village of Pimperne, Dorset.  For
only the second time in our project's history, we have a perfect 37-marker
match, this time between Marc and Richard (kit 88850).  The two of them
have now been paired in a newly-formed "Group 13" at:
http://www.math.mun.ca/~dapike/family_history/pike/DNA/index.php?content=results.html#Group13
As shown in the small family tree on this webpage, Marc and Richard have
each traced their ancestry back to a William Pike who was born about 1715.
And in particular, Marc and Richard are 5th cousins (3 generations
removed) who descend from two different sons of William.  The genetic
match between Marc and Richard confirms that the Pimperne Pike family has
a distinctive genetic signature than other Pike families that have so far
joined our project.

One other item that I want to mention isn't for a new DNA result, but
rather involves new information that pertains to an old result.  Percival
(95077) belongs to our project's "Group 2" clan with roots from Carbonear,
Newfoundland.  On his own, Percival had traced his Pike lineage back to a
George Pike who was born about 1823.  A month or so ago, while I was doing
some work at the Maritime History Archive at Memorial University of
Newfoundland (my office is conveniently located in the same building as
the MHA), I found a family tree that had been submitted as part of a
student's homework assignment, probably sometime in the 1960s or 1970s.
One branch of this tree reached down as far as Percival's father.  But
between this tree and some other records, we've now been able to trace
Percival's ancestry back for one more generation, to William & Eliza Ann
Pike of Carbonear.  Moreover, there is a tradition that William's father
was named Thomas and that Thomas came to Carbonear from Falmouth,
Cornwall.  I haven't yet found any evidence to support the connection to
Falmouth, but it is nevertheless interesting to know that this family
closely matches, and hence is indeed related to, other Pike families of
Carbonear.

- David.