Saturday, October 13, 2018

Kennedy Family Connections Part 3

Here’s an update on the search for Kennedy connections. All of the lineages below seems very likely to relate to our Kennedys who descend from William Kennedy and Jane Gray:

A male Kennedy descendant of Daniel Kennedy, son of Jesse Kennedy of Greene County, PA, recently received new autosomal DNA results. He was a match to a descendant of Jesse Kennedy of Morgan County Ohio (through daughter Rachel Kennedy Leach). This is one of several matches between members of an AncestryDNA circle for Rachel and descendants of Daniel, and it supports the hypothesis that the two Jesses are one. However, information on Jesse Kennedy of Greene County is pretty sparse, and many trees appears to have unsupported inferences (e.g., that Jesse married a Rose Cary in Philadelphia).

A descendant of a David Kennedy married to Magdalena Troyer, who lived in Holmes County, Ohio, is receiving detailed Y DNA results, which associate him with a subclade of M222 that is very common among Kennedys of Ayrshire, Scotland. Hopefully, these results will facilitate more refined Y DNA testing to help validate connections among the Kennedys.

James Kennedy born circa 1798 who married Elizabeth Griffith 6 Jul 1820 in Franklin, Franklin, Ohio, USA and had sons William and Isaac.

David Kennedy married to Mary Wildman, lived in Greene County, PA. Had son Daniel Kennedy married Phoebe Ashby.