Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 17:37:45 -0230 (NDT)
From: David Pike 
To: pike-dna-l@rootsweb.com
Subject: Four results



Hi everybody.

In this email bulletin there are four new DNA results to mention.



Kit 223334 tested 67 markers and was found to be a perfect 67-marker match 
with Nolan (kit 198106) in our project's "Group 7".  As it happens though, 
it should be no surprise that these two kits are a perfect match with each 
other, since they're actually for the same person.  Nolan put Family Tree 
DNA through a sort of quality control test to see if they would report the 
same marker values for him again (including for the few markers where 
Nolan differs from the rest of "Group 7").  It is reassuring that Family 
Tree DNA passed this little test, getting the exact same marker values 
both times that they analysed Nolan's DNA.



Dan (kit 219938) also tested 67 markers.  At 67 markers his closest match 
has a score of 60/67 and is with Roger (kit 167779) in our project's 
"Group 17".  Most of the members of this group trace their ancestry back 
to Pikes that resided on the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland and who 
originally came from some yet-to-be-determined place in England.  Also in 
"Group 17" are Alun (134124) and Joseph (168595) whose Pike ancestors are 
known to have lived in Bristol and London, respectively.

Dan is a close enough match to place him into "Group 17" but he has some 
distinctive mutations on his markers which suggest that he may belong to a 
previously untested family branch within this group.  Indeed, from what is 
known of his Pike ancestry, this appears to be the case.  Dan's great 
great grandfather Otto Pike lived at Lyme Regis in Dorset, although census 
records indicate that he was born about 1820 at Yarcombe in Devon.  It may 
be possible to trace Dan's ancestry back even further if records from the 
area of Yarcombe can be accessed.

In the meantime this now brings our tally of unrelated Pike families in 
Dorset up to 5, and the number of unrelated Pike families with roots in 
Devon up to 4.



Anthony (kit 230936) tested 37 markers.  His closest match has a score of 
26/37, which is weak enough to say that Anthony's Pike lineage is not 
related to any of the others in our project.  His Pike ancestry can be 
traced back to a Henry Pike who was born in Berkshire in 1808 and who 
married and subsequently resided in the village of Cumnor, located just 
west of the city of Oxford.



John (kit 208614) tested 37 markers and was found to differ by only two
markers from several members of our project's "Group 6".  Currently John's 
lineage can be traced to a Henry S Pike who was born about 1830 in 
Worcester, Massachusetts.  But given John's new-found membership in "Group 
6" it is likely that his lineage ultimately goes back to James & Naomi 
Pike who lived at Charlestown and Reading, Massachusetts in the 1600s.


- David.