Re: Robert Moffitt, b. 1762 Ireland, died 1837 Ohio
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Re: Robert Moffitt, b. 1762 Ireland, died 1837 Ohio
S Pearson 2/04/11
I don't believe anyone has ever settled the question of when the Scottish Moffitts went to Northern Ireland: whether during the Plantation period of the early 1600s, or later.Most seem to believe that the Robert Moffitt-Margaret Stewart Moffitt pair from whom many of us descend were married in Scotland in the early 1700s, and then went to the north of Ireland.But that seems to stem from an document dictated by a son of one of the American immigrant Moffitt brothers who actually said only that "the family of Moffitts" originated in Scotland. This was taken to imply that Robert Moffitt and Margaret Stewart were married in Scotland at or near Moffat, but if so no record of the marriage has survived.Most of the Scottish immigrants to the plantations of Northern Ireland went there in the 1600s and so I think the probablility is that ours did too.
Our North Carolina Moffitts have turned up, through DNA testing, cousins in County Donegal, Ireland, and a Moffatcousin in Texas whose immigrant ancestor came to Canada directly from Scotland.But we have yet been unable to discover the common ancestor whose DNA mutation gave us all extraordinarily rare DNA markers that indicate our fairly close relationship within the large and quite diverse Moffat community.The early records of our Irish cousins have been destroyed. It does appear that the mutation must have occured in Scotland no later than the 1600s and possibly several hundred years earlier.Not much help in determining the date of the migration to Ireland.But the male DNA testing proved to be of greathelp to a man with a different surname who turned up with our Moffitt DNA; he realized that the wife of the man who adopted and gave his name to his great-grandfather was a Moffitt before her marriage, and so the great-grandfather was probably an orphaned nephew or cousin of hers.
Anybody interested in Moffat-Moffett-Moffitt DNA can read about the project results at:
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/moffittmoffett/default.aspx?section=resultshttp://www.familytreedna.com/public/moffittmoffett/default.aspx?section=results
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Re: Robert Moffitt, b. 1762 Ireland, died 1837 Ohio