Hi Bernie,
I suspect that you are somewhat disappointed not to have a dna match with one of the other
Catley trees such as Peter (Glynis) who is of the Somerset Norton line, as it looked a
fair bet based on where your Thomas was tried, that he could have been related; however,
the dna says otherwise.
As Liz said, it just goes to show that your Thomas could have come from anywhere within
the UK and the more we look at Catley group genealogy, the more evidence there is that
some Catleys moved about a lot more than we first realised.
I don't know if you have been keeping count on the dna progress, but with your results
added to the total; it now means that we have five different Catley trees all with the
same R1b1b2 Haplogroup plus one tree of Haplogroup I1 and another of I2a..
Is this significant? I don't know, but it shows that the two I Haplogroup trees are
Norse in origin (the Lincolnshire and Cambs/Herts/Essex ones) whilst the rest of us look
to have come in to the UK via Belgium and Holland.
Hopefully we can attract more Catleys to take the test and further our understanding.
I think that Kay is going to be the next Lister to organise a test. She has traced her
descendants back to Yorkshire which could put them into the same clan as my lot from
Normanton, however we have a theory that some of these Yorkshire Catleys may have Norse
roots and belong to the Lincolnshire one. It will be fascinating to see how test results
confirm or disprove our theories.
Tim