Dear Samantha,
I am glad you have closely studied the results from our Carden DNA project,
perhaps from viewing my report at
http://www.lightpatch.com/genealogy/cardendnaproject/
Your brother Judson's result exactly matches what has become established as
the "Cheshire Haplotype," that is the Y-chromosome pattern shared by almost
all those, all over the world, who are descended from the Cardens of
Cheshire, England. These Cheshire Cardens have been traced back to before
1216. It is fascinating that the same patten should have been passed from
father to son unchanged over nearly eight centuries,
perhaps 30 generations. We would not, of course, have known this without
the DNA project.
It is possible, though unproven, that all the Cardens with this Y-chromosome
who have Virginia or North Carolina ancestors share their
descent from a unique immigrant who arrived from England in the 1600s,
perhaps the Robert James Carden mentioned in the comment on Chris Carden's
result, or highly speculatively a Jo Curden about whom Martha Smith wrote to
the Carden-L list at rootsweb in April 2002 as follows
According to Bailey's book -- The immigrant JOHN CARDEN is said to have been
born in 1602 in the borough of Hackney in London, England. "John was a
haberdasher by trade and operated a business with his partner, Mr. Hyde, who
was a tailor in the city of London. Boarded the ship 'Speedwell' in 1635
(Nils Haag found a record that said a Joseph Curden came on this boat in the
same year, but no John mentioned) with his five year old son, Robert.
Settled on the Rappahannock River in the northern neck of VA. The Cardens of
East Tennessee descend from this John Carden."
I am extremely interested that you say that your brother has a very rare
number for one marker. I did not know that. Please tell me more.
I am sending a copy of this message to the list, in case there are new
listers unaware of all this, or others who would like to be reminded.
Arthur Carden of Horsham, England
----- Original Message -----
From: "samantha hihgtower" <nightrider36441(a)yahoo.com>
To: <carden(a)one-name.org>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 12:42 AM
Subject: Carden DNA Project
Dear Arthur,
I am Samantha Carden, sister to Judson Wayne Carden who participated in
the dna
project. Could you please explain to me what the results actually
mean? I see where my brother has a (very rare number for this marker), what
does that mean? Are we related?
Thanks for any help you can give.
Samantha Carden