An unusual Hayden/Haydon family DNA signature.
Haydon Surname Message board
06-Mar-2010
Subject.An unusual Hayden / haydon family DNA signature.
An unusual haplogroup R1b1b DNA signature survives today in Wales and south England. If my research holds up, it is the genetic footprint of a cluster of early Britons.
Today, the known ancestral locations for this DNA signature are in an arc from Norfolk, down through Hertfordshire and across south England into Wales. (The area around Herts and Bury St Edmunds has the second largest cluster of ancestral locations.) This distribution seems to reflect findings by geneticist Mike Weale’s 2002 Y-migration paper. http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/19/7/1008/http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/19/7/1008/
Today, there are over 40 surnames on my list, one of which is Hayden / Haydon / Heydon.This particular surname is very interesting because of its possible origins and because some of the Herts surnames seem to trace to St. Mary’s County, Maryland, USA,and possibly to Andover, Mass. USA.
If you have taken a Y-DNA test while researching your Haydon family paper trail; and your DNA allele results match any of the allele markers below, then please contact me about your earliest known ancestor birth location.
You should have:
Haplogroup
R1b1b or further
Allele marker results of
DYS448 = 17
DYS456 = 14
DYS450 = 10
Whenever the next book by Oppenheimer, Sikes or Johnson is written about the genetic history of the British Isles, this clade deserves to have their story told.
I have a Google map showing the clade arc at http://tinyurl.com/c5ekhahttp://tinyurl.com/c5ekha
I have a Google Docs spreadsheet that lists most of the surnames in the clade. It is a little clunky but works fine once it completes loading.It is Modal One at
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rkz0OgbJRpfGWHoN-iyfLeA&hl=enhttp://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rkz0OgbJRpfGWHoN-iyfLeA&hl=en
So far, this is the largest genetic clade in Wales and south England today that can plausibly be linked to the early Britons. I would like to see more Haydon/Hayden Family Lineages included.
Regards, Robert Hughes