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It has come to my attention that some Coddington descendants obtained Y chromosome DNA results independently of the DNA project that we started, and therefore cannot access/compare their data to our results.
In an effort to be as inclusive as possible, I provide below a reconstruction of Stockdale Coddington's (1569-1649) Y chromosome for the 37 markers most commonly used. His haplotype was 1Ia. If none of this makes any sense, google everything you can think of and report back here with questions.
Jonathan
DYS19 14
DYS385a 13
DYS385b 14
DYS388 14
DYS389i 12
DYS389ii 28
DYS390 22
DYS391 10
DYS392 11
DYS393 13
DYS426 11
DYS437 16
DYS438 10
DYS439 11
DYS441 16
DYS442 11
DYS444 13
DYS445 11
DYS446 12
DYS447 23
DYS448 20
DYS449 28
DYS452 12
DYS454 11
DYS455 8
DYS456 14
DYS458 15
DYS459a 8
DYS459b 9
DYS460 10
DYS461 12
DYS462 12
DYS463 19
DYS464a 12
DYS464b 14
DYS464c 15
DYS464d 16
GATAA10 13
GATAC4 22
TAGAH4 11
GGAAT1B07 10
YCAIIa 19
YCAIIb 21
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Thanks Joyce,
Almarion Marrow Coddington did indeed end up in New Mexico, tho I never knew the route he took to get there. Walter (James) Coddington was his son.
Coddingtons (like Woody Allen in the film Zelig) played at least bit parts in most major events in American history. Almarion was the son of Isaac, who left New Jersey with his family, and ultimately ended up in Ohio (as a result of an early 19th century land boondoogle). Almarion was the 8th child and 5th son, and he and most of his brothers just kept going, well beyond Ohio. A number settled in Topeka, Kansas. Almarion, in fact, was enumerated in the 1880 census in both Kansas and New Mexico, so I suppose those dates must bracket his trip.
They were not the only Coddingtons going west. Elizabeth and Mary Coddington married the Miller brothers (in 1828 and 1832) and together travelled the Oregon Trail to settle in Oregon. Elizabeth and her husband, Isaac Miller, died on the same day, 26 Feb. 1878. Why? Violence? Disease? Chance?
Isaiah Coddington (1834-1912), also of New Jersey, dragged his long-suffering first wife across most of the West, until she said, "no," and returned home to New Jersey with their two sons. Isaiah then started a second family with Hattie Emma Wood (married ca 1873), and one of their children was born at Fort Apache, NM in 1881, roughly the midpoint of Geronimo's resistance to U.S. Govt. "pacification."
And these were just the restless, looking for a new life and cheap land. Each discovery of western gold also enticed Coddingtons, most plaintively in the case of William Coddington (1820-1888, also originally from Woodbridge, NJ), who responded to the 1849 California gold rush, but at least had the sense to go into business supplying miners rather than panning for gold himself. He's in the 1860 census in Calaveras Co., Angel's Camp, with $150 in cash and $500 in real estate to his name. There is a wonderful series of letters from him to his family back in NJ (in the New Jersey Historical Society Archives) with details of what it was like to try to establish and maintain a series of trading posts in frontier California. Basically, the business decision turned on the length of the mule train, the value of the cargo, and security costs. Once bandits got too bad, it simply wasn't worth trying to re-supply remote posts. In the camps, he met and married Petra "G." from Chihuahu!
a, Mexico, and they had, among others, Carlos and Pedro. William died rich, very rich. He never found time to return to New Jersey to visit family. And we can't trace what became of his Mexican bride. Those were, indeed, different times.
Jonathan
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Hello Kris,
If you descend from the Coddingtons with "deep" roots in Maryland, i.e. those that moved from New Jersey to the panhandle just after the Revolutionary War, then you do descend from Stockdale Coddington. Here is a link to start reading about that portion of the family: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~coddingtons/169.htm
I'll contact you directly about participating in the Coddington DNA Project.
Thanks!
Jonathan
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My father is a Coddington desendent from Maryland. He said he would be interested.
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Coddington, Mrs. Almarion M., Albuquerque
Coddington, Ed, Albuquerque
Coddington, Walter, Albuquerque
Las Vegas Daily Optic -- July 30, 1910
Pioneers Who Traveled Old Santa Fe Trail
In view of the old trailers' reunion in Las Vegas on the Fourth of July, the Optic is publishing a list of the pioneers who traveled the Santa Fe Trail when that great highway between Westport and Santa Fe, was the main artery of commerce between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains.
This list is being added to from the day to day, as rapidly the names of old trailers are received. Appended is a complete list to date:
I am not related to this family, just passing on this information, which comes from a webpage titled "Pioneers Who Traveled Old Santa Fe Trail."
The link for the site is listed below.
Joyce
http://www.webroots.org/library/usatrav/pwtosft0.html
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The Coddington Y-chromosome DNA project has swelled to 6 participants.
(http://www.dnaheritage.com/surnameform.asp?GroupUnique=199115613&Surname=...)
All except one are known or suspected descendants of Stockdale (1569-1649).
Our Y-chromosomes are identical at all 43 markers. We are therefore all descendants of the same man, presumably Stockdale (or, more properly, his grandson John Coddington (1652-aft 1715), as no lines of the intervening people still persist).
This is both good and bad news. On the one hand, Hooray! DNA works! On the other, mutations in those 43 markers mutate so slowly that "intra-Stockdale" genealogy is a bust. We are all the same.
However, the latter just shifts the frame of interest to earlier, bigger, history, e.g. the various pockets of Coddingtons in Merrye Olde England (and Ireland).
Wouldn't you like to know if the Cheshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Surrey, and Irish Coddingtons are one happy clan or a bunch of disconnected gene pools that happened to select the same surname in the mid-1400's?
I would.
What we need to test that idea is one Coddington male with a pedigree that reliably does not include Stockdale.
When I posted this idea a while back, I got no takers, so our project is herewith willing to pay costs. In other words, we'd be happy to pay for a free Y-chromosome test, just to know whether there is one, or more than one, fundamental group of Coddingtons.
Anyone qualified and interested can post a reply to this message board or contact me directly.
Jonathan