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The individual-by-individual results of current FTDNA testing are available at “DNA Results" on the menu to the left.
Previous Maybury Project groupings, based on tests for Short Tandem Repeats (STRs) and geographic locations of earliest known ancestors (EKAs), have been revised as a result of increased number of tests for Single Nuclear Polymorphisms (SNPs). BigY SNP tests have resulted in greatly improved identification of Maybury family branches and sub-branches. These are beginning to transcend geographic groupings. Detailed descriptions of Maybury Project groups are provided below.
BigY results provide the foundation for the Maybury Group Time Tree, available at “DNA Results" on the menu to the left. The Group Time Tree is essentially a genetic family tree of the direct paternal lineages of Maybury Project participants. It allows participants to see how their lineages developed over time and how participants are related to each other. Group 1 Mayburys, the largest group in the Project, should select only the nine Group 1 boxes to provide the clearest overview of the development of their lineage. The Maybury Group Time Tree will evolve and provide further information as more Mayburys test with, or upgrade to, BigY.
BigY results provide the foundation for the Maybury Group Time Tree, available at “DNA Results" on the menu to the left. The Group Time Tree is essentially a genetic family tree of the direct paternal lineages of Maybury Project participants. It allows participants to see how their lineages developed over time and how participants are related to each other. Group 1 Mayburys, the largest group in the Project, should select only the nine Group 1 boxes to provide the clearest overview of the development of their lineage. The Maybury Group Time Tree will evolve and provide further information as more Mayburys test with, or upgrade to, BigY.
STR TESTS
Early in the Maybury DNA Project, a number of Maybury family clusters were identified from STR tests. Over time, tests increased in resolution from Y12 to Y111 markers. The largest Maybury family cluster identified (now termed Group 1) comprised several family branches scattered worldwide. These were grouped, based on matching genetic signatures with reference to known ancestry or location of earliest known ancestors (EKAs).
Evidence from Y-STR DNA testing, combined with traditional genealogy, led to the conclusion that Group 1 descended from a common ancestor. He was identified as John Maybury (c.1540-1618, with various spellings), an ironworker of Sussex, England, who lived in various places in England and Wales before dying in Shropshire, England. He was thrice married and is known to have fathered thirteen children: seven sons and six daughters; one of each being illegitimate. Four sons are known to have produced descendants: Nicholas (c.1567-1634), Christopher (b.1573), Clement (1575-aft.1628) and John (1577-1651), although only Nicholas, Clement and John are known to have fathered sons.
Mayburys in the Project who did not share John Maybury of Sussex’s DNA signature were assigned to six new Maybury family groups (Groups 2-7). The largest of these new Maybury family clusters was that of Frederick Mayberry of Bedford County, Virginia (Group 2). These groupings continue to be used.
Participants who did not match other Mayburys in the Project were grouped either as ‘Mayburys with unique DNA signatures’ or as ‘Ungrouped’. These groupings also continue to be used.
STR tests were limited in their ability to define branches within the Group 1 Maybury family. This has been largely overcome with the use of SNP testing.
SNP TESTING
BigY (SNP) testing has transformed our knowledge of the Maybury family. It has allowed participants to be accurately assigned to positions on the R-haplotree (these results have been summarised in the chart below). Importantly, SNP testing has revealed family branches and sub-branches within the large Group 1. The insights provided by BigY SNP testing will undoubtedly continue as further tests are undertaken.
BigY tests have shown that all descendants of John Maybury of Sussex (Group 1) share a block of nine SNPs headed by the SNP, R-BY13824. So far three main family branches have been revealed beneath this block, identified by the SNPs R-FTA43442, R-FT379334 and R-FTA84209. To date, several sub-branches have been identified below or downstream of these main branches:
R-FTA43422 has been found to comprise four lineages:
· R-BY74532 - descendants of Francis Maybury who settled in the colony of Virginia, North America, around the 1670s;
· R-BY96368 - descendants of Mayberry and Baldwin families, early residents in a border area of adjoining counties of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, c. 1720;
· R-FTB35004 - descendants of William Maybury of Cleady (d.c.1794-5), Kenmare, Co. Kerry, Ireland;
· R-BY10933 - descendants of John Mayberry of Greenlane (d.1792), Kenmare, Co. Kerry, Ireland;
· R-FTA43422* - descendants of two Maybury families of Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland; and the Maybury family of Gearhanagoul, Bonane (near Kenmare).
R-FT379334 comprises three lineages:
· R-FTA377434 – descendants of Alexander Mayberry of Lisnagrot, Tamlaght O’Crilly, Co. Londonderry, Northern Ireland;
· R-FTA92816 – descendants with EKAs located in Pennsylvania c.1720;
· R-FT379334* - a descendant of a Maybury family with an EKA living in West Cork in the early 1800s and other descendants with EKAs born in Ireland who later settled in Ontario, Canada (early 19th century), Pennsylvania c.1760 and Windham, Maine, 1730s.
R-FTA84209 comprises a Maybery descendant of John Maybury of Sussex and a descendant of a Mayberry family from Monmouthshire, Wales.
The SNPs listed above are not mere letters and numbers, they were real people who passed genetic mutations down to their descendants. Mostly their names are unknown. In the case of R-FTA84209, however, the progenitor of the branch appears to have been John Maybury (1577-1651) of Cleobury Mortimer, eleventh child of John Maybury of Sussex and his second wife, Alice Fuller.
DESCRIPTION OF MAYBURY GROUPS IN DNA RESULTS
Maybury DNA Project participants are, upon test results being received, ordered into the following groups. These have changed from those used in previous years and reflect the new information received from SNP testing. Grouping is a dynamic process and will change as testing provides new insights.
GROUP 1A1 R-FTA43422>R-BY74532 Francis Maybury of Virginia.
Descendants of Francis Maybury (ca1650-1712); arrived in Henrico County, Virginia c.1675. He married Elizabeth Gilliam (a widow with five young children) and the couple had seven more children. Francis died in Surry County in 1712. They comprise the R-BY74532 sub-branch of the major R-FTA43422 branch of the Group 1 Maybury family.
Recommendations: BigY upgrades may define family lineages within this group.
GROUP 1A2 Pennsylvania Mayberrys.
Essentially a geographical cluster comprising several family lines whose relationships are unclear. Some of the participants descend from Thomas Maybury who arrived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, by 1716 and founded a dynasty of iron workers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia. Others descend from later immigrants to Pennsylvania. Both the R-FTA43422 and R-FT379334 major Maybury family branches settled in Pennsylvania. Those who appear to belong to the R-FTA43422 branch have been placed in this 1A2 group, including one defined Mayberry cluster (R-BY96368) associated with Bucks County and nearby Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Another cluster (R-FTA92816), who appear to be descendants of Charles Maybury of Bucks County (m. Sarah), belong instead to the R-FT379334 branch and grouped with their closely-related Group 1B(2) Mayberrys.
Recommendations: Group 1A2 Pennsylvania Mayberry participants would benefit greatly from BigY upgrades.
GROUP 1A2(1) R-FTA43422>R-BY96368 Bucks Co PA & Hunterdon Co NJ.
Mayberry descendant of Charles and Susan Mayberry of Hunterdon County, New Jersey. R-BY96368 includes a Baldwin family from Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
GROUP 1A3: County Kerry Mayburys.
Three Mayberry ironworkers from Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Ireland, were employed on Sir William Petty's Glanarought estate, near Kenmare, Co. Kerry, for a short period around 1672. A probable relative, William Mabury (d.c.1720), took up land around Kenmare in about 1686. During the 1700s, one Mayberry and three Maybury families were established around Kenmare. They had close dealings with another Maybury family at Cloghereen, Killarney, but who previously were based at Dunguil (Dungeel), Killorglin. Two Kenmare families, Maybury and Mayberry, have been identified, the lineages of the rest are as yet unnamed and are placed in the para-group R-FTA43422*.
Recommendations: The placement of kits N21928, 10421 and 15848 in the sub-branches below would be confirmed by BigY upgrades.
GROUP 1A3(1): R-FTA43422>R-FTB35004: Kerry Mayburys Kenmare.
Descendants of William Maybury of Cleady (d.1794-5), near Kenmare, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
GROUP 1A3(2): R-FTA43422>R-BY109333: Kerry Mayberrys Kenmare.
Descendants of John Mayberry of Greenlane (d.1792), near Kenmare, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
GROUP 1A3(3): R-FTA43422> R-FTA43422*: Kerry Mayburys Killarney & Kenmare.
Descendants of William Maybury of Dunguil, Killorglin, and Cloghereen, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland (m. Anne Huggard, c.1758); James Maybury (b.c.1799) and Maria Shaw of Muckross, Killarney; and George Maybury of Gearhanagoul, Bonane near Kenmare (m. Mary Bawn or Sullivan, 1836 - probable son of John Maybury, farmer, who took up a lease in Gortnadullagh, Kenmare, in 1796).
GROUP 1B: - Mayburys of England, West Cork, Northern Ireland & Pennsylvania.
A good proportion of these participants appear to belong to the R-FT379334 branch of the Group 1 Maybury family. Over half of these have known origins in Ireland, often in the north, possibly descendants of Richard Maybury who died at Cartmel, Lancashire in 1643. His son, John Maybury (1628-1677) went to County Londonderry in northern Ireland in 1657. One participant is a descendant of a Maybury family of West Cork, Ireland, with a possible ancestry reaching back in the region to 1620. Two participants appear to be descendants of Charles Maybury of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and another is based in the western English Midlands.
Recommendations: BigY testing and upgrades would assist greatly in untangling the various Maybury family lines in Pennsylvania.
GROUP 1B(1): R-FT379334>R-FT377434 Descendants of Alexander Mayberry of Northern Ireland.
GROUP 1B(2): R-FT379334>R-FTA92816: Bucks County Pennsylvania Mayberrys.
Possible descendants of Charles Maybury (b. c.1720s; m. Sarah).
GROUP 1B(3): R-FT379334> R-FT379334* Mayburys of West Cork, Ireland, and Mayberrys of Northern Ireland, Maine and Ontario, Canada.
Descendant of Thomas Maybury and Jean Daunt (m.1846) of Dunmanway, Cork, Ireland. Descendants of William and Bathsheba Mayberry of Windham, Maine; and Richard Mayberry of Ontario, Canada.
GROUP 1C: Descendants of the English Mayburys.
Maybury families who remained in England while others emigrated, mainly in the 17th and early 18th centuries, are under-represented in the Maybury DNA Project. This is unfortunate because they may hold the key to the identification of the progenitors of two of the major branches of the Group 1 Maybury family: R-FTA43422 and R-FT379334 and their sub-branches. The progenitor of the third major Maybury family branch, R-FTA84209, has been identified as John Maybury of Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire (1577-1651), and his descendants form Group 1C(1).
GROUP 1C(1): R-FTA84209: Mayberys & Mayberrys, England & Wales.
Participants in the following Groups 2-7 would benefit from BigY testing to establish their specific place on the Maybury haplogroup R tree:
GROUP 2 Frederick Mayberry of Bedford County, Virginia.
This Maybury cluster has a unique DNA signature which easily distinguishes it from the Group 1 Maybury family. Their origins are obscure. Some descendants of Frederick Mayberry say he was ‘born in Germany’. He may have been born in Germany but anglicized his name to ‘Mayberry’ when he came to America. Others say he was ‘of English descent’. We know that he lived in New Jersey and Pennsylvania where some descendants of the English Mayburys married local German immigrants. Thus, it is possible that Frederick Mayberry grew up in a family that had both English and German traditions.
GROUP 3 Affinis Pennsylvania Mayberry.
A cluster with links to Pennsylvania, but non-matching to the Maybury Group 1 line. One participant has been assigned the terminal SNP, R-SS5750.
GROUP 4 Descendants of Randolph and Oran Mabrey, Virginia.
Genealogically associated with the descendants of Francis Maybury of Virginia, but not matching genetically.
GROUP 5 Descendants of Delilah Mabry of South Carolina.
A cluster, non-matching to the Maybury Group 1 line. Both participants descend from Delilah Mabry of South Carolina.
GROUP 6 Mayburry.
A cluster, non-matching to the Group 1 Maybury line.
GROUP 7 Mabrey.
A cluster, non-matching to the Group 1 Maybury line.
Mayburys with unique DNA Signatures.
These participants appear to have ancestors who were connected with a branch of the Maybury family. However, their DNA signatures do not match those of Maybury family Groups 1 to 7. Possibly this indicates an NPE (non-paternal event - either an adoption or an out-of-wedlock birth) occurred in an early generation. Alternatively, ancestors have changed their names to one of the many variants of the Maybury surname.
Ungrouped.
Individuals with surnames other than a variation of Maybury and with no genetic matches to Mayburys with unique DNA signatures or Maybury Groups 1-7. New participants may find themselves temporarily placed in ‘Ungrouped’ until their correct position is determined.
SNP TESTING
BigY (SNP) testing has transformed our knowledge of the Maybury family. It has allowed participants to be accurately assigned to positions on the R-haplotree (these results have been summarised in the chart below). Importantly, SNP testing has revealed family branches and sub-branches within the large Group 1. The insights provided by BigY SNP testing will undoubtedly continue as further tests are undertaken.
BigY tests have shown that all descendants of John Maybury of Sussex (Group 1) share a block of nine SNPs headed by the SNP, R-BY13824. So far three main family branches have been revealed beneath this block, identified by the SNPs R-FTA43442, R-FT379334 and R-FTA84209. To date, several sub-branches have been identified below or downstream of these main branches:
R-FTA43422 has been found to comprise four lineages:
· R-BY74532 - descendants of Francis Maybury who settled in the colony of Virginia, North America, around the 1670s;
· R-BY96368 - descendants of Mayberry and Baldwin families, early residents in a border area of adjoining counties of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, c. 1720;
· R-FTB35004 - descendants of William Maybury of Cleady (d.c.1794-5), Kenmare, Co. Kerry, Ireland;
· R-BY10933 - descendants of John Mayberry of Greenlane (d.1792), Kenmare, Co. Kerry, Ireland;
· R-FTA43422* - descendants of two Maybury families of Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland; and the Maybury family of Gearhanagoul, Bonane (near Kenmare).
R-FT379334 comprises three lineages:
· R-FTA377434 – descendants of Alexander Mayberry of Lisnagrot, Tamlaght O’Crilly, Co. Londonderry, Northern Ireland;
· R-FTA92816 – descendants with EKAs located in Pennsylvania c.1720;
· R-FT379334* - a descendant of a Maybury family with an EKA living in West Cork in the early 1800s and other descendants with EKAs born in Ireland who later settled in Ontario, Canada (early 19th century), Pennsylvania c.1760 and Windham, Maine, 1730s.
R-FTA84209 comprises a Maybery descendant of John Maybury of Sussex and a descendant of a Mayberry family from Monmouthshire, Wales.
The SNPs listed above are not mere letters and numbers, they were real people who passed genetic mutations down to their descendants. Mostly their names are unknown. In the case of R-FTA84209, however, the progenitor of the branch appears to have been John Maybury (1577-1651) of Cleobury Mortimer, eleventh child of John Maybury of Sussex and his second wife, Alice Fuller.
DESCRIPTION OF MAYBURY GROUPS IN DNA RESULTS
Maybury DNA Project participants are, upon test results being received, ordered into the following groups. These have changed from those used in previous years and reflect the new information received from SNP testing. Grouping is a dynamic process and will change as testing provides new insights.
GROUP 1A1 R-FTA43422>R-BY74532 Francis Maybury of Virginia.
Descendants of Francis Maybury (ca1650-1712); arrived in Henrico County, Virginia c.1675. He married Elizabeth Gilliam (a widow with five young children) and the couple had seven more children. Francis died in Surry County in 1712. They comprise the R-BY74532 sub-branch of the major R-FTA43422 branch of the Group 1 Maybury family.
Recommendations: BigY upgrades may define family lineages within this group.
GROUP 1A2 Pennsylvania Mayberrys.
Essentially a geographical cluster comprising several family lines whose relationships are unclear. Some of the participants descend from Thomas Maybury who arrived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, by 1716 and founded a dynasty of iron workers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia. Others descend from later immigrants to Pennsylvania. Both the R-FTA43422 and R-FT379334 major Maybury family branches settled in Pennsylvania. Those who appear to belong to the R-FTA43422 branch have been placed in this 1A2 group, including one defined Mayberry cluster (R-BY96368) associated with Bucks County and nearby Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Another cluster (R-FTA92816), who appear to be descendants of Charles Maybury of Bucks County (m. Sarah), belong instead to the R-FT379334 branch and grouped with their closely-related Group 1B(2) Mayberrys.
Recommendations: Group 1A2 Pennsylvania Mayberry participants would benefit greatly from BigY upgrades.
GROUP 1A2(1) R-FTA43422>R-BY96368 Bucks Co PA & Hunterdon Co NJ.
Mayberry descendant of Charles and Susan Mayberry of Hunterdon County, New Jersey. R-BY96368 includes a Baldwin family from Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
GROUP 1A3: County Kerry Mayburys.
Three Mayberry ironworkers from Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Ireland, were employed on Sir William Petty's Glanarought estate, near Kenmare, Co. Kerry, for a short period around 1672. A probable relative, William Mabury (d.c.1720), took up land around Kenmare in about 1686. During the 1700s, one Mayberry and three Maybury families were established around Kenmare. They had close dealings with another Maybury family at Cloghereen, Killarney, but who previously were based at Dunguil (Dungeel), Killorglin. Two Kenmare families, Maybury and Mayberry, have been identified, the lineages of the rest are as yet unnamed and are placed in the para-group R-FTA43422*.
Recommendations: The placement of kits N21928, 10421 and 15848 in the sub-branches below would be confirmed by BigY upgrades.
GROUP 1A3(1): R-FTA43422>R-FTB35004: Kerry Mayburys Kenmare.
Descendants of William Maybury of Cleady (d.1794-5), near Kenmare, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
GROUP 1A3(2): R-FTA43422>R-BY109333: Kerry Mayberrys Kenmare.
Descendants of John Mayberry of Greenlane (d.1792), near Kenmare, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
GROUP 1A3(3): R-FTA43422> R-FTA43422*: Kerry Mayburys Killarney & Kenmare.
Descendants of William Maybury of Dunguil, Killorglin, and Cloghereen, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland (m. Anne Huggard, c.1758); James Maybury (b.c.1799) and Maria Shaw of Muckross, Killarney; and George Maybury of Gearhanagoul, Bonane near Kenmare (m. Mary Bawn or Sullivan, 1836 - probable son of John Maybury, farmer, who took up a lease in Gortnadullagh, Kenmare, in 1796).
GROUP 1B: - Mayburys of England, West Cork, Northern Ireland & Pennsylvania.
A good proportion of these participants appear to belong to the R-FT379334 branch of the Group 1 Maybury family. Over half of these have known origins in Ireland, often in the north, possibly descendants of Richard Maybury who died at Cartmel, Lancashire in 1643. His son, John Maybury (1628-1677) went to County Londonderry in northern Ireland in 1657. One participant is a descendant of a Maybury family of West Cork, Ireland, with a possible ancestry reaching back in the region to 1620. Two participants appear to be descendants of Charles Maybury of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and another is based in the western English Midlands.
Recommendations: BigY testing and upgrades would assist greatly in untangling the various Maybury family lines in Pennsylvania.
GROUP 1B(1): R-FT379334>R-FT377434 Descendants of Alexander Mayberry of Northern Ireland.
GROUP 1B(2): R-FT379334>R-FTA92816: Bucks County Pennsylvania Mayberrys.
Possible descendants of Charles Maybury (b. c.1720s; m. Sarah).
GROUP 1B(3): R-FT379334> R-FT379334* Mayburys of West Cork, Ireland, and Mayberrys of Northern Ireland, Maine and Ontario, Canada.
Descendant of Thomas Maybury and Jean Daunt (m.1846) of Dunmanway, Cork, Ireland. Descendants of William and Bathsheba Mayberry of Windham, Maine; and Richard Mayberry of Ontario, Canada.
GROUP 1C: Descendants of the English Mayburys.
Maybury families who remained in England while others emigrated, mainly in the 17th and early 18th centuries, are under-represented in the Maybury DNA Project. This is unfortunate because they may hold the key to the identification of the progenitors of two of the major branches of the Group 1 Maybury family: R-FTA43422 and R-FT379334 and their sub-branches. The progenitor of the third major Maybury family branch, R-FTA84209, has been identified as John Maybury of Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire (1577-1651), and his descendants form Group 1C(1).
GROUP 1C(1): R-FTA84209: Mayberys & Mayberrys, England & Wales.
Participants in the following Groups 2-7 would benefit from BigY testing to establish their specific place on the Maybury haplogroup R tree:
GROUP 2 Frederick Mayberry of Bedford County, Virginia.
This Maybury cluster has a unique DNA signature which easily distinguishes it from the Group 1 Maybury family. Their origins are obscure. Some descendants of Frederick Mayberry say he was ‘born in Germany’. He may have been born in Germany but anglicized his name to ‘Mayberry’ when he came to America. Others say he was ‘of English descent’. We know that he lived in New Jersey and Pennsylvania where some descendants of the English Mayburys married local German immigrants. Thus, it is possible that Frederick Mayberry grew up in a family that had both English and German traditions.
GROUP 3 Affinis Pennsylvania Mayberry.
A cluster with links to Pennsylvania, but non-matching to the Maybury Group 1 line. One participant has been assigned the terminal SNP, R-SS5750.
GROUP 4 Descendants of Randolph and Oran Mabrey, Virginia.
Genealogically associated with the descendants of Francis Maybury of Virginia, but not matching genetically.
GROUP 5 Descendants of Delilah Mabry of South Carolina.
A cluster, non-matching to the Maybury Group 1 line. Both participants descend from Delilah Mabry of South Carolina.
GROUP 6 Mayburry.
A cluster, non-matching to the Group 1 Maybury line.
GROUP 7 Mabrey.
A cluster, non-matching to the Group 1 Maybury line.
Mayburys with unique DNA Signatures.
These participants appear to have ancestors who were connected with a branch of the Maybury family. However, their DNA signatures do not match those of Maybury family Groups 1 to 7. Possibly this indicates an NPE (non-paternal event - either an adoption or an out-of-wedlock birth) occurred in an early generation. Alternatively, ancestors have changed their names to one of the many variants of the Maybury surname.
Ungrouped.
Individuals with surnames other than a variation of Maybury and with no genetic matches to Mayburys with unique DNA signatures or Maybury Groups 1-7. New participants may find themselves temporarily placed in ‘Ungrouped’ until their correct position is determined.