Hatteras Island DNA Projects
Hatteras Island (current Dare County, NC, former Currituck and Hyde) is a
very unique place with an incredibly interesting history and geography as
well.
* Hatteras Island is the location where the Lost Colonists indicated
that they went, to join their friends, the Croatoan Indians.
* Hatteras Island has a long history of shipwrecks, with many families
carrying the oral history that they descend from shipwreck victims.
* Hatteras Island has an equally long oral history that many of the
current residents descend from the original residents, the Croatoan (later
the Hatteras) Indians.
* Early records confirm his history in various ways. For example, by
1710, the Farrows, O'Neals, Hoopers and Wahabs were reported to be "half
Indian and half English".
* The isolated geography of Hatteras Island served to discourage a lot
of movement to the island after the initial land grants were awarded and
free/cheap land was no longer available.
* The isolated geography prevented or discouraged intermarriage with
people not island residents, creating a rather closed community, allowing us
the unique opportunity to reconstruct the original island residents from
their descendants today.
I have compiled a list of early island surnames from deeds, wills, tax
lists, militia and other documents. These surnames represent the early
island residents up through about 1800. We would like to be able to
reconstruct the ethnicity of the earliest island families, especially the
wives whose surnames have been lost to time. Using DNA, we will be able to
reconstruct those families and help people who cannot identify their
ancestors' families to reconnect.
Allen, Austin, Ballance, Barret, Barrett, Barnett, Barnet, Bailes, Burgis,
Beckley, Balance, Basnet, Basnett, Basnight, Baum, Bennett, Bennet, Black,
Burton, Bright, Brooks, Burras, Burrus, Carr, Callahane, Callahan, Casey,
Cirk, Clark, Dahoe, Dailey, Davis, Dring, Duncan, Durant, Elks, Etheridge,
Evans, Fulcher, Farrow, Flower, Gallop, Garrish, Guthrie, Gaskill, Gaskins,
Gibbs, Goodin, Gray, Howard, Hooper, Jarvis, Jackson, Jennett, Jennette,
Jennings, Johnson, Johnston, Jonston, Jones, Keito, King, Kirk, Lewis,
Lindsey, Lindsay, Love, McCoy, Maccoy, McDearmid, MacKuen, Macuing, Mann,
Masque, Mashue, Maskue, Matham, Meekins, Midget, Midgett, Midyett, Midyet,
Miller, Nelson, Norton, Neal, Neel, Oliver, Oden, O'Neal, O'Neel, Oneal,
Oneel, Paumer, Palmer, Penney, Payne, Paine, Pinkham, Price, Palmer, Peele,
Pugh, Quidley, Quidly, Reed, Read, Relfe, Robb, Robertson, Rollison,
Rollinson, Russell, Sanderson, Scarborough, Scarboro, Simpson, Stiring,
Stirling, Styron, Smith, Salter, Spencer, Spenser, Squires, Stewart, Stow,
Stowe, Taylor, Tolson, Toleer, Toler, Van Pelt, Vanpelt, Wahab, Wallis,
Wallice, Whedby, Whidby, Whedbee, Whedbe, Williams, Willis, White, Wells
If your Callahan/Callahane family descends from Hatteras Island families and
you have a male who carries that surname today available to test (or who has
already DNA tested), please join our Hatteras Fathers DNA project at
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/HatterasFathers/default.aspx
If your maternal Callahan/Callahane line, meaning your mother's mother's
mother's line, on up the tree through women only on the maternal line
extends back to Hatteras Island residents, you are eligible to join our
Hatteras Mothers DNA project at
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/HatterasMothers/default.aspx
If you are descended from Hatteras Island residents through any of your
genealogical lines, and you have taken the Family Finder test, please join
our Hatteras Family Finder project at
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Hatteras-Families/default.aspx