DNA - results

To date, we have received DNA test results for volunteers from four different Adamthwaite lines:
  You can view the detailed results here.

These reveal that the two males from the GREY line are certainly very closely related (confirming the family trees which we had produced from written evidence). However, there is no match between the GREY line volunteers with either the YELLOW, OLIVE or VIOLET lines of Adamthwaites - so almost certainly these four lines do not share a common ancestor within the last 1000 years, but one at least shows a possible link to another old Westmorland family - the Satterthwaites, however even that connection is likely to have been around 800 - 1,000 years ago, i.e. before surnames were generally adopted.

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Our VIOLET, OLIVE and GREY volunteers' results show them to belong to the R1b1a2 haplogroup which is most common around the north-western fringes of Britain and Ireland, and the YELLOW volunteer's results show he belongs to the E1b1b1 haplogroup which is a much rarer group in the UK, but does occur in Cumberland and Westmorland.

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