Edward Perkins is not the son of Thomas Perkins and Elizabeth Knebble

Whoa, we've got three fathers and three mothers going on there...I'm not familiar with that line off-hand but will poke around for you.

It looks like his ancestry is simply not known at this time, so my gut instinct is that he should be split from all of those potential parents. But I'll see what I can dig up.

J. Ashley:

That is correct. No definitive evidence of his ancestry at this time. Look at the Perkins DNA study, http://www.ftdna.com/public/Parkins-Perkins/ Descendants of Edward have all tested in haplogroup R1a1, those of most other New England Perkins are in haplogroups I or R1b.

Also get the 1913 issues of The Connecticut Magazine for three articles, one on a lost Perkins Diary, one on descendants of Edward Perkins by Donald Line Jacobus, and one on Rev William Perkins.

Regards,

Steven C. Perkins
http://stevencperkins.com/genealogy.html
scperkins@gmail.com

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I've now "orphaned" Edward Perkins, of New Haven, made him a Master Profile, and a curator note that his parents are not known.

How are the wife & children? Can you check them for accuracy as well?

See my web site for the wife and children. They are documented in New Haven records and the sons are in deeds from Edward to them before his death. The daughter is not found in the records except for her birth. Elizabeth Butcher's parents are also unknown.

http://stevencperkins.com/genealogy.html

Steven

Very nice site Stiofan, you are researching some names I am also looking into. My Howtons married into the Creekmore's / Creekmur's several times over, I believe, as an example. So I'm going to look into this in more detail.

Particularly interested in Melungeon and other triracial isolate groupings, in fact we have a Melungeon project open here:

http://www.geni.com/projects/Melungeon

http://stevencperkins.com/genealogy.html

Steven, you've done great work with New Haven genealogy. Your site is a fantastic model for others to follow. Thank you for sharing.

Do you guys have the Perkins surname going back to Pierre de Morlaix? From there it goes back to William the Conqueror and Charlemagne...from Pierre de Morlaix's father and back, everything is in wikipedia...

Jeffrey:

As far as I know, there is no contemporary evidence of Peter Morley's parentage or ancestry. He appears in the records with his brother who uses the surname Morley. Again, no known evidence that this should be Morlaix. That is just the way it was written in the Visitation record which used Latin, Norman-French, and English, all mixed together. See, The history of Ufton Court: of the parish of Ufton, in the County of Berks and of the Perkins Family,

http://books.google.com/books/download/The_history_of_Ufton_Court.p...

Steven

Sorry, I didn't mean to hijack this thread, I will make a new one...lol