I don't think I am on any of those lists either, but
I'll post it to the gagen and hopefully those County
Coordinator's will pass on the word.
Deborah Byrd
Please post thismessages to the Camden, Chatham, and
Glynn County
lists. I am not a member of any of those lists.
However, I am sure
that some members of those lists will find this
message
to be of some
interest.
Thanks,
Dale
_______________________________________
Hello to all Reddick and Southeast Georgia
investigators,
For those of you on these lists who have Reddicks in
your ancestry (or,
are interested in Reddick, Readick, or Readdick or
similar R320 origins)
- there has been an interesting development announced,
recently.
I recently had a DNA analysis conducted of my paternal
lineage - the
line going back through my gggg-grandfather Nicholas
Reddick, who
resided on Brier Creek alongside the millpond created
by the Paris Mill
at Millhaven (a.k.a. Milltown, formerly an area along
Brier Creek that
is now split between Burke & Screven Counties).
Nicholas Reddick and
his brothers Francis, Jacob, and Peter were living in
what had been
Burke County and in part of what became Screven County
(created in 1793)
from at least 1785 until the death of the last of the
four brothers -
Peter, in 1815 - at his mill on Little Sweewater
Creek,
just above Stony
Bluff - on the Savannah River.
So, a recently compared pair of Y-Chromosome DNA tests
has resulted in a
match between Paternal lines for the Readdick families
of Camden & Glynn
Counties of Coastal Georgia with the Reddick families
of Burke & Screven
Counties of Southeast Georgia. One male descendant of
Peter Readdick
(born circa 1800) and myself, a descendant
(gggg-grandson) of Nicholas
Reddick (died prior to 1811) have received confimation
that our
submitted samples of paternal Y-chromosomes are
perfect
matches
Thus - an individual with the surname "Readdick" from
Camden County, GA.
has had results returned from a DNA analysis conducted
that points to a
99.9% match between his and my paternal lineages. We
match on 12 of 12
genetic markers or locii of our Y-chromosomes. There
is only a one in
one-thousand chance that we are not members of the
same
paternal lineage.
This means that these two sets of families have the
same origins. It is
likely that they are descended from the family of
Johann Radick, a
Palatine emigrant who arrived in Savannah in December
of 1737.
Also, the surname spelling of Readick has been linked
with all three of
these groups - the Burke & Screven Reddicks, the
Camden
& Glynn
Readdicks, and the Chatham Radicks (many of whom
historically adopted
the Readick & Reddick spellings of their surname).
This seems to point to a much broader presence of the
Reddick / Readdick
(also Readick, Redick, etc.) lines in Southeast and
Coastal Georgia,
with a greater likelihood for their common ancestral
origins lying
within early colonial Georgia.
Not all linkages have been proven, but it seems likely
that most of the
Readick, Readdick, and Reddick lines of Southeast
Georgia are connected
by common descent from the Radick family.
I hope that this is helpful.
Sincerely,
Dale E. Reddick