Which Clan?
Clan MacLaren?
“Cuimhnich air na daoine o’n d’thaining thu”
(Remember the men from whom you are descended)
The information on this page, I have put together for a couple of reasons. One is that I am now a grandfather, and in the hope that someday one of my children or grandchildren may become interested in their roots. You never know, some of the information they may want, just might be here.
Another reason is, that prior to this, nobody in my immediate family has taken the time to really explore just where we Patterson’s come from.
My mothers side of the family, the McEachern’s, are quite well documented. They are part of the MacDonald of the Isles Clan, or Clan Donald, so I concentrate on the Patterson’s here.
(Remember the men from whom you are descended)
The information on this page, I have put together for a couple of reasons. One is that I am now a grandfather, and in the hope that someday one of my children or grandchildren may become interested in their roots. You never know, some of the information they may want, just might be here.
Another reason is, that prior to this, nobody in my immediate family has taken the time to really explore just where we Patterson’s come from.
My mothers side of the family, the McEachern’s, are quite well documented. They are part of the MacDonald of the Isles Clan, or Clan Donald, so I concentrate on the Patterson’s here.
Robert Patterson was the 1st of our line to come to Australia in 1832 from County Cavan, Ireland. He was the son of Mark, born 1786 who was married to Margaret.
That is, unfortunately, the earliest we know about us, and in an endeavor to find more, I have done some research on the internet, been in touch with “Ulster-Scots” in Sydney, took out membership of Clan MacLaren and joined several DNA family name research groups.
I have taken this course due to the 4 Courts bombing of 1922 by the IRA, which destroyed 90% of Ireland’s records, making it highly unlikely that any of our Irish family history will ever be found.
What I have found so far is……………………
PATTERSON is a Scottish name
The 1st Patterson’s to go to Ireland did so when King James I sent a large group of Scots to Ulster as plantationists. Patterson was one of the 400 surnames on the list of the 1st group in 1606-1641. Nearly all of these plantationists left the Lowlands and Borders regions of Scotland with very few originating from the Highlands.
In a list of Scottish names appearing on Muster Rolls and Estate Maps of Ulster, dated 1607-1633, the name Patterson appeared just 5 times, in Countys Tyrone x 1, County Fermanagh x 1, County Derry x 1, County Down x 1 and County Donegal x 1. There were none in Counties Antrim, Armargh or Cavan, the other Ulster Counties.
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From “The Surnames of Scotland” by George F Black comes…………………
MacPhedran, Macphedron, MacPheidran. ‘Son of little Peter’ or ‘Peterkin’
The MacPhedrans of Argyllshire believe themselves to be originally MacAulays.
The native home of the Clan Pheadirean (Patterson) was on the North side of Loch Fyne where they were formerly numerous.
Dominicus M’Fedran and his male heirs had charter of the one mark land Sonnachan, Argyllshire, 1349 as attested by a notorial copy made in 1488. Duncan glas M’Phedrein held land at Port Sonnachan, 1629 and Gilpatrick M’pheddrin was sasine witness 1650.
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From “The Book of Ulster Surnames“by Robert Bell comes…………………
PATTERSON. This name is among the twenty most common in Scotland.
Although found in all the provinces of Ireland it is common only in Ulster where it is one of the forty most numerous names. It is among the first five in Co. Down and is very common too in counties Antrim, Armargh, Derry, and Tyrone.
It also takes the forms Paterson and Pattison.
The name is from the lowlands of Scotland and means ‘Patricks son’.
However, a few Highland Gaelic names were also made Patterson. MacFeat, MacPatrick,MacPhaedrick, MacPhater and MacPhatrick were all originally MacPhadruig, itself a shortening of earlier MacGille Phadruig, meaning ‘son of the devotee of (St.) Patrick’. All these names were made Patterson or Paterson and also Kilpatrick. Also the Galloway name MacFetridge, in Gaelic MacPhetruis, meaning ‘son of Peter’ was made Patterson.
The Irish name MacPhaidin has been used as a gaelicisation of Patterson. It means ‘son of little Pat’ and is usually anglicized as MacPadden and Padden.
In the mid 19th century Patterson was found in 12 out of the 14 baronies of Antrim, and in Down was most common in the barony of Upper Castlereagh.
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From "The Scotch Irish in America" by Samuel Swett Green comes...................
THE PATTERSON LINE
There is a tradition in the Patterson family that they have been in Ireland since the planting of Ulster, and ever since that time inhabitants of Manor Cunningham; that their crest was a boar's head; very likely there was more than that, but that is the only part handed down in their family.
It is a matter of history that a Patterson, Robert or James, was one of a company of gentlemen that came over from Scotland at the invitation of Charles the First, in the year of 1613. Each of these gentlemen was assigned lands, and Patterson was given land afterward called Manor Fort Cunningham. This historical fact agrees with the tradition in the family of Robert Patterson's ancestors. Another Patterson came over in 1614 and settled on another quarter called Mone-gragam, but not far from Robert, hence it is to be presumed that they were brothers.
James Patterson 1/3 Monegragane, All Saints Parish - 1 Nov 1614
From: John Cunningham, Gentleman, who oversaw 1,000 acres called Dunboy
Robert Paterson 1/7 Magherymore, Raymoghy Parish 1 May 1613
From: James Cunningham, who oversaw 1,000 acres call Moyegh
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Which Clan?
The following is information gained from Colin Sproule, co-ordinator of Ulster-Scot, Sydney.
All of the following Clans claim Patterson as a sept.
1) MacAulay.(inc Lennox/ MacFarlane) Who were part of the ancient Clan Alpin dating back to AD 850
2) Campbell
3) Lamont,(inc MacEaracher /Farquharson)
4) MacLaren
What is interesting is that all of these Clans (except Farquharson) were located in much the same area, that being Argyll, indicating that just maybe, our bloodline comes through them all. What follows has been written about each of them in the book, “Scots Kith and Kin”
1) MacAulay
The Dunbartonshire MacAulays claim descent from MacGregor and hence MacAlpin stock. Seated at Ardincaple (now Helensburgh) since at least the 13th century, they were under protection of and closely connected with the old earls of Lennox. It is from a brother Aulay of the earl in Alexander II’s time that the clan name is believed to derive. A branch that removed to Loch Fyne took the name MacPhedran which became Patterson.
Alpin
Tradition claims MacAlpin as the oldest and most purely Celtic of the Highland clans, of royal descent from the dynasty of Kenneth MacAlpin who united Picts and Scots into one kingdom from the year 850, and transferred his capital to Perthshire, from DunAdd in Dalriada (beside Loch Crinan). However, no clan of the name survived into the heyday of the clan system, though individual MacAlpins are recorded from the 13th century, mostly then in Perthshire. Clan MacGregor claims origin from that royal MacAlpin stock; as also do MacAulay, MacDuff, MacFie, MacKinnon, MacNab and MacQuarrie.
2) Campbell
Like their name itself, frequently interpreted as Cam-beul, this forthrightly ambitious clan claims origin both Celtic and Norman, though the accounts vary. One relates how Malcolm of the clan anciently named O Duibhne or MacDiarmid, went as a widower to Norman France, where he married an heiress of the Beauchamp family and adopted that name. A son Archibald accompanied the Conquerer in 1066, and became founder to several English lines, these bringing changes on the name, as Beachamp to Beecham, Campobello, Kemble. Hugo de Morville, David 1’s High Constable and assistant feudaliser, married Beatrix de Campobello and introduced Campells as vassals on his Ayreshire lands.
Of their main stem, rising to its dukedom of Argyll, we hear of them in possession at Lochow (Loch Awe) after Alexander II’s conquest of Argyll. This need not contradict the other tradition of Lochow as O Duibhne territory from long earlier. It would clinch with the Campbell aptitude for backing the winning authority, and with their later royal commission to suppress the refractory MacDonalds of 1614 and oust them from Kintyre. The troublesome MacGregors of Perthshire had just previously been treated to a similar policing. And Highland memories run deep. Among many Campbell branches, that of Breadalbane illustrates their other aptitude, for successful marriage, being begun by a 14th century match with the Glenorchy heiress.
3) Lamont
The Clan MacEaracher (i.e. from some Farquar chief, earlier than the northern Farquharsons ancestor) were the immemorial of their part of Argyllshire, centred on Castle Toward in Cowal. A chief of his son in the 13th century seemingly acquired a special judicial rank that earned the clan, or its earliest branch, the new name ‘Law Man’, hence Laumon, Lamont and other variations. The clan lost power and territory to Campbells and other neighbours, through marriages and less gentle means. A Dunoon monument recalls the 1646 capture and destruction of Toward Castle with the subsequent massacre of many principal Lamonts on the excuse of their adherence to the royalist cause. The chief’s seat thereafter became Ardlamont, at the other end of the Kyles of Bute.
Farquharson
A branch of Clan Chattan, the Aberdeenshire Farquharsons or MacEarachers descend from Farquhar, some of the Shaw MacIntosh of Rothiemurchus, Strathspey, who was awarded lands in Braemar by the Bruce, for assistance against the northern Comyns. No such motive could be ascribed the clan for their devotion to the Stewart causes in after centuries. From Farquhars grandson Finlay, comes MacKinlay and some other sept names. The clan extended well into Perthshire, but MacEarachers of around Argyllshire are of Lamont or other origin.
3) MacLaren
The older form, MacLaurin, is nearer to the Gaelic pronunciation.
Whether originally named after the martyred St. Lawrence, or from Loarn, son of the Erc who founded Scottish Dalriada about 503, and namer of the district of Lorn, the clan does claim descent from three brothers from the area now Argyllshire who served with Kenneth MacAlpin in his successful campaign of 843-50 to unite the Northern Picts into Scotland.
A branch remained in their first home-country and were for long in possession of Tiree, but those three brothers awards in Balquhidder and Strathearn became the clans main territory. Here they enter records surviving from the 13th century and at Balquhidder lies Rob Roy MacGregor in the MacLaurin burial ground; not the only encroachment between these two clans. In their long record of loyalty the MacLaurins frequently followed the Appin Stewarts, with whom they had blood ties, and it was a MacLaurin who escaped Cumberlands troops by flinging himself over the Moffatt ‘Beef-tub’.
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From further reading and studying the various clans’ websites, I feel that I can narrow the search down to just 2 clans that we could belong to. They are Clan MacAulay and/or Clan MacLaren.
My reasons are that Clan MacLaren are open to all Patterson’s and have a well documented Patterson history. There are more Patterson’s belonging to this clan than any other and through all probabilities, we belong to it as well.
Clan MacAulay also has a good historical record of Patterson dating back to the Clan MacPhedran who evolved their name into Patterson.
Both Clans have an ancient history, claiming descendancy from the royal MacAlpin line.
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Final DNA results
I have been advised that I (and therefore all the males in this line of Patterson’s) belong to YDNA Haplogroup “I”. On my mother’s side, mtDNA, I belong to Haplogroup “K”. These results are interesting in that they contain both expected and unexpected, but not surprising, results.
mtDNA
Haplogroup “K” is basically, a Celtic group and quite common throughout the British Isles. It was named after “Katrine”. Katrine, the founding mother of mitochondrial DNA haplogroup K, was one of the “Seven daughters of Eve” and she lived about 16,000 years ago. Perhaps the oldest known K descendant was Oetzi the Iceman whose frozen body was discovered in the Alps in 1991. Estimated at 5,000 years old, the Iceman proved to have the basic mutations for a K. Every K is a cousin of Oetzi.
When broken down into little bits, the scientists have put my mtDNA in the clade of K1c2, and I have about 1200 matches from all over the world.
YDNA
However, the YDNA result is very interesting.
“R” is the dominant Celtic haplogroup and appears in about 75% of Scottish people, whereas haplogroup “I” appears to be in less than 15% of the Scottish people.
In the 1st step, the scientists have broken it down and put it in I2b1* clade which identifies it as having a mutation, m-223, that they know happened about 14,000 years ago, just after the end of the last Ice Age, in the area we now know as southern Denmark and the northern German plains.
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From “The Surnames of Scotland” by George F Black comes…………………
MacPhedran, Macphedron, MacPheidran. ‘Son of little Peter’ or ‘Peterkin’
The MacPhedrans of Argyllshire believe themselves to be originally MacAulays.
The native home of the Clan Pheadirean (Patterson) was on the North side of Loch Fyne where they were formerly numerous.
Dominicus M’Fedran and his male heirs had charter of the one mark land Sonnachan, Argyllshire, 1349 as attested by a notorial copy made in 1488. Duncan glas M’Phedrein held land at Port Sonnachan, 1629 and Gilpatrick M’pheddrin was sasine witness 1650.
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From “The Book of Ulster Surnames“by Robert Bell comes…………………
PATTERSON. This name is among the twenty most common in Scotland.
Although found in all the provinces of Ireland it is common only in Ulster where it is one of the forty most numerous names. It is among the first five in Co. Down and is very common too in counties Antrim, Armargh, Derry, and Tyrone.
It also takes the forms Paterson and Pattison.
The name is from the lowlands of Scotland and means ‘Patricks son’.
However, a few Highland Gaelic names were also made Patterson. MacFeat, MacPatrick,MacPhaedrick, MacPhater and MacPhatrick were all originally MacPhadruig, itself a shortening of earlier MacGille Phadruig, meaning ‘son of the devotee of (St.) Patrick’. All these names were made Patterson or Paterson and also Kilpatrick. Also the Galloway name MacFetridge, in Gaelic MacPhetruis, meaning ‘son of Peter’ was made Patterson.
The Irish name MacPhaidin has been used as a gaelicisation of Patterson. It means ‘son of little Pat’ and is usually anglicized as MacPadden and Padden.
In the mid 19th century Patterson was found in 12 out of the 14 baronies of Antrim, and in Down was most common in the barony of Upper Castlereagh.
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From "The Scotch Irish in America" by Samuel Swett Green comes...................
THE PATTERSON LINE
There is a tradition in the Patterson family that they have been in Ireland since the planting of Ulster, and ever since that time inhabitants of Manor Cunningham; that their crest was a boar's head; very likely there was more than that, but that is the only part handed down in their family.
It is a matter of history that a Patterson, Robert or James, was one of a company of gentlemen that came over from Scotland at the invitation of Charles the First, in the year of 1613. Each of these gentlemen was assigned lands, and Patterson was given land afterward called Manor Fort Cunningham. This historical fact agrees with the tradition in the family of Robert Patterson's ancestors. Another Patterson came over in 1614 and settled on another quarter called Mone-gragam, but not far from Robert, hence it is to be presumed that they were brothers.
James Patterson 1/3 Monegragane, All Saints Parish - 1 Nov 1614
From: John Cunningham, Gentleman, who oversaw 1,000 acres called Dunboy
Robert Paterson 1/7 Magherymore, Raymoghy Parish 1 May 1613
From: James Cunningham, who oversaw 1,000 acres call Moyegh
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Which Clan?
The following is information gained from Colin Sproule, co-ordinator of Ulster-Scot, Sydney.
All of the following Clans claim Patterson as a sept.
1) MacAulay.(inc Lennox/ MacFarlane) Who were part of the ancient Clan Alpin dating back to AD 850
2) Campbell
3) Lamont,(inc MacEaracher /Farquharson)
4) MacLaren
What is interesting is that all of these Clans (except Farquharson) were located in much the same area, that being Argyll, indicating that just maybe, our bloodline comes through them all. What follows has been written about each of them in the book, “Scots Kith and Kin”
1) MacAulay
The Dunbartonshire MacAulays claim descent from MacGregor and hence MacAlpin stock. Seated at Ardincaple (now Helensburgh) since at least the 13th century, they were under protection of and closely connected with the old earls of Lennox. It is from a brother Aulay of the earl in Alexander II’s time that the clan name is believed to derive. A branch that removed to Loch Fyne took the name MacPhedran which became Patterson.
Alpin
Tradition claims MacAlpin as the oldest and most purely Celtic of the Highland clans, of royal descent from the dynasty of Kenneth MacAlpin who united Picts and Scots into one kingdom from the year 850, and transferred his capital to Perthshire, from DunAdd in Dalriada (beside Loch Crinan). However, no clan of the name survived into the heyday of the clan system, though individual MacAlpins are recorded from the 13th century, mostly then in Perthshire. Clan MacGregor claims origin from that royal MacAlpin stock; as also do MacAulay, MacDuff, MacFie, MacKinnon, MacNab and MacQuarrie.
2) Campbell
Like their name itself, frequently interpreted as Cam-beul, this forthrightly ambitious clan claims origin both Celtic and Norman, though the accounts vary. One relates how Malcolm of the clan anciently named O Duibhne or MacDiarmid, went as a widower to Norman France, where he married an heiress of the Beauchamp family and adopted that name. A son Archibald accompanied the Conquerer in 1066, and became founder to several English lines, these bringing changes on the name, as Beachamp to Beecham, Campobello, Kemble. Hugo de Morville, David 1’s High Constable and assistant feudaliser, married Beatrix de Campobello and introduced Campells as vassals on his Ayreshire lands.
Of their main stem, rising to its dukedom of Argyll, we hear of them in possession at Lochow (Loch Awe) after Alexander II’s conquest of Argyll. This need not contradict the other tradition of Lochow as O Duibhne territory from long earlier. It would clinch with the Campbell aptitude for backing the winning authority, and with their later royal commission to suppress the refractory MacDonalds of 1614 and oust them from Kintyre. The troublesome MacGregors of Perthshire had just previously been treated to a similar policing. And Highland memories run deep. Among many Campbell branches, that of Breadalbane illustrates their other aptitude, for successful marriage, being begun by a 14th century match with the Glenorchy heiress.
3) Lamont
The Clan MacEaracher (i.e. from some Farquar chief, earlier than the northern Farquharsons ancestor) were the immemorial of their part of Argyllshire, centred on Castle Toward in Cowal. A chief of his son in the 13th century seemingly acquired a special judicial rank that earned the clan, or its earliest branch, the new name ‘Law Man’, hence Laumon, Lamont and other variations. The clan lost power and territory to Campbells and other neighbours, through marriages and less gentle means. A Dunoon monument recalls the 1646 capture and destruction of Toward Castle with the subsequent massacre of many principal Lamonts on the excuse of their adherence to the royalist cause. The chief’s seat thereafter became Ardlamont, at the other end of the Kyles of Bute.
Farquharson
A branch of Clan Chattan, the Aberdeenshire Farquharsons or MacEarachers descend from Farquhar, some of the Shaw MacIntosh of Rothiemurchus, Strathspey, who was awarded lands in Braemar by the Bruce, for assistance against the northern Comyns. No such motive could be ascribed the clan for their devotion to the Stewart causes in after centuries. From Farquhars grandson Finlay, comes MacKinlay and some other sept names. The clan extended well into Perthshire, but MacEarachers of around Argyllshire are of Lamont or other origin.
3) MacLaren
The older form, MacLaurin, is nearer to the Gaelic pronunciation.
Whether originally named after the martyred St. Lawrence, or from Loarn, son of the Erc who founded Scottish Dalriada about 503, and namer of the district of Lorn, the clan does claim descent from three brothers from the area now Argyllshire who served with Kenneth MacAlpin in his successful campaign of 843-50 to unite the Northern Picts into Scotland.
A branch remained in their first home-country and were for long in possession of Tiree, but those three brothers awards in Balquhidder and Strathearn became the clans main territory. Here they enter records surviving from the 13th century and at Balquhidder lies Rob Roy MacGregor in the MacLaurin burial ground; not the only encroachment between these two clans. In their long record of loyalty the MacLaurins frequently followed the Appin Stewarts, with whom they had blood ties, and it was a MacLaurin who escaped Cumberlands troops by flinging himself over the Moffatt ‘Beef-tub’.
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From further reading and studying the various clans’ websites, I feel that I can narrow the search down to just 2 clans that we could belong to. They are Clan MacAulay and/or Clan MacLaren.
My reasons are that Clan MacLaren are open to all Patterson’s and have a well documented Patterson history. There are more Patterson’s belonging to this clan than any other and through all probabilities, we belong to it as well.
Clan MacAulay also has a good historical record of Patterson dating back to the Clan MacPhedran who evolved their name into Patterson.
Both Clans have an ancient history, claiming descendancy from the royal MacAlpin line.
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Final DNA results
I have been advised that I (and therefore all the males in this line of Patterson’s) belong to YDNA Haplogroup “I”. On my mother’s side, mtDNA, I belong to Haplogroup “K”. These results are interesting in that they contain both expected and unexpected, but not surprising, results.
mtDNA
Haplogroup “K” is basically, a Celtic group and quite common throughout the British Isles. It was named after “Katrine”. Katrine, the founding mother of mitochondrial DNA haplogroup K, was one of the “Seven daughters of Eve” and she lived about 16,000 years ago. Perhaps the oldest known K descendant was Oetzi the Iceman whose frozen body was discovered in the Alps in 1991. Estimated at 5,000 years old, the Iceman proved to have the basic mutations for a K. Every K is a cousin of Oetzi.
When broken down into little bits, the scientists have put my mtDNA in the clade of K1c2, and I have about 1200 matches from all over the world.
YDNA
However, the YDNA result is very interesting.
“R” is the dominant Celtic haplogroup and appears in about 75% of Scottish people, whereas haplogroup “I” appears to be in less than 15% of the Scottish people.
In the 1st step, the scientists have broken it down and put it in I2b1* clade which identifies it as having a mutation, m-223, that they know happened about 14,000 years ago, just after the end of the last Ice Age, in the area we now know as southern Denmark and the northern German plains.
To find out more, I joined the I2b project and they have been able to break it down even further to I2b1continental2b subclade.
This subclade originated in the area we know as north western Germany, Denmark and Holland, with northern Germany and southern Denmark being the hotspot.
Another sublclade, I2b1a Isles is found exclusively in the British Isles, but I2b1cont1, on the other hand, is not found in the British Isles at all.
More recently the I2b1cont has been rebranded as I2a2a3.
"Eupedia" has this to say about it...
I2a2a3 is commonly known as the I2 Continental clade (except Continental 3). It is the largest of the four subclades of I2a2a and is found predominantly in Germanic countries, with a particularly high concentration in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, England and in Northwest Sicily (Norman settlement). It is also found at lower densities throughout the rest of Europe, from Portugal to Russia. I2-Z161 is thought to have been propagated around Europe by the Danish Vikings (Britain, Normandy, Sicily), the Swedish Vikings (Baltic, Russia, Ukraine), the Goths (Moldova, Balkans, Italy, south-west France, Spain), the Suebi (Portugal and Galicia), the Lombards (attested by a hotspot in Campobasso, Molise), and the Franks (Rhineland, Belgium).
From the International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISoGG), fully boiled down, our Patterson "Y" haplogroup grouping now stands as I2a2a1b2a2a1a
Our DNA in Scotland/Ireland
Also of interest is that at about the time of the m-223 mutation, 14,000 years ago, there existed an area of land, Doggerland, which joined Britain to Europe. It transformed the North Sea into a large bay, with its western shore being the west coast of Scotland. I expect that the I2b1 haplogroup was in the British Isles because of this land bridge, thousands of years before the Vikings and Anglo Saxons existed.
Evidence indicates that this was a very fertile area with large rivers and flat farming land.
This subclade originated in the area we know as north western Germany, Denmark and Holland, with northern Germany and southern Denmark being the hotspot.
Another sublclade, I2b1a Isles is found exclusively in the British Isles, but I2b1cont1, on the other hand, is not found in the British Isles at all.
More recently the I2b1cont has been rebranded as I2a2a3.
"Eupedia" has this to say about it...
I2a2a3 is commonly known as the I2 Continental clade (except Continental 3). It is the largest of the four subclades of I2a2a and is found predominantly in Germanic countries, with a particularly high concentration in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, England and in Northwest Sicily (Norman settlement). It is also found at lower densities throughout the rest of Europe, from Portugal to Russia. I2-Z161 is thought to have been propagated around Europe by the Danish Vikings (Britain, Normandy, Sicily), the Swedish Vikings (Baltic, Russia, Ukraine), the Goths (Moldova, Balkans, Italy, south-west France, Spain), the Suebi (Portugal and Galicia), the Lombards (attested by a hotspot in Campobasso, Molise), and the Franks (Rhineland, Belgium).
From the International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISoGG), fully boiled down, our Patterson "Y" haplogroup grouping now stands as I2a2a1b2a2a1a
Our DNA in Scotland/Ireland
Also of interest is that at about the time of the m-223 mutation, 14,000 years ago, there existed an area of land, Doggerland, which joined Britain to Europe. It transformed the North Sea into a large bay, with its western shore being the west coast of Scotland. I expect that the I2b1 haplogroup was in the British Isles because of this land bridge, thousands of years before the Vikings and Anglo Saxons existed.
Evidence indicates that this was a very fertile area with large rivers and flat farming land.
The area disappeared when the ice retreated and the sea level rose.
Doggerland had an area of high hills. These hills are still in existence and the area is the well known "Doggerbank", beneath the North Sea.
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Viking Blood?
Should you decide to disregard this “Doggerland” theory of how haplogroup I2b1cont2b got into Britain, then we could, as an alternative, choose another theory which indicates that there is a very high likelihood that there is Danish Viking blood in our line of Patterson’s which would have arrived via Viking settlements in Britain or from their raiding parties.
Doggerland had an area of high hills. These hills are still in existence and the area is the well known "Doggerbank", beneath the North Sea.
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Viking Blood?
Should you decide to disregard this “Doggerland” theory of how haplogroup I2b1cont2b got into Britain, then we could, as an alternative, choose another theory which indicates that there is a very high likelihood that there is Danish Viking blood in our line of Patterson’s which would have arrived via Viking settlements in Britain or from their raiding parties.
This map indicates that there was a Viking settlement in Argyll/Kintyre in the 9th century, where all 3 clans were located. It also shows that there was a Danish Viking settlement on the east coast of Northern Ireland and not far from County Cavan, where our paper trail ends.
Was this how our "I2b1" got there?
All of this would indicate that our line was either already in Britain before Dalriada, or, arrived at about the same time, but from another direction, Denmark.
We know that the “I” haplogroup was originally from the middle east and moved west along the Mediterranean coast and then north as the ice age retreated, about 25,000 years ago and that the 223 mutation happened about 14,000 years ago. These two dates indicate a deep, ancient history, contrasting with the Celts, cAD50-500 and later the Vikings, cAD800-1100, who are relatively modern in comparison.
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I am now doubting any of what's presented in blue below. Further research is needed.
I very nearly deleted it, due to some of the information, found on www.Ancestry.com, proving to be false
Another generation?
After much searching of various genealogy websites, I found another family unit that fits in nicely as a possible earlier generation to our Mark, but without any documentation to support it, I just noted it and put the idea away.
But. upon the receipt of the 1st stage on my DNA results, I found that I am an exact match with 3 other people who have also tested with FTDNA. Two of the matches aren’t of the Patterson name, but one, Edward J Rhoades, (USA) who’s oldest known ancestor was a Thomas Patterson, born in 1788 and died in 1874, also fits nicely with this same family unit.
(Thomas Patterson 1788-1874, married Ann Cassidy and had at least 4 children, James, Thomas, Andrew & Francis.)
So, at this stage, with the confirmed and exact Y chromosome, Patterson, DNA match, have I found another generation of our Patterson line in Ireland?
Their details are as follows;
Samuel Mark Patterson
Born 1764 County Fermanagh, Ireland
Married Annie McGregor in PA USA 1841
Died 15th October 1841 Sennecaville, Guernsey, Ohio, USA
Annie McGregor
Born 1784, Cavan, Co.Cavan, Ireland.
Died 1 NOV 1853 Sennecaville, Guernsey, Ohio, USA.
Children.
Rebecca Patterson b 1804 PA USA, d 1876 Iowa USA
Samuel Patterson b 1816 PA USA, - d 1899 Rajasthan India
and Allie, Catherine, Elizabeth, John, Mary & Nancy.
Children from an earlier unknown spouse.
Mark b 1786, d 1843
Thomas b 1788, d 1874
I find it interesting that Samuel & Annie’s date of marriage is in the same year that Samuel died, 1841, indicating to me that he was on, or near to, his death bed. He was aged 77 at this time and she was 57.
When you look closely at the dates here you will find that when our Mark was born, Annie was just 2 years old.therefore, I believe that she is Marks second wife and because their details are well noted compared to the others, only Rebecca and Samuel are their children. The remainder are from another spouse. Marks brother, Thomas, (my exact mDNA match) had a son of his own, also Thomas who migrated to the USA.
I can understand why a man with an already existing family, who for whatever reason, matched up with a new woman 20 years his younger, migrated to the USofA in order to start a new life.
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Oldest known Relatives
The oldest known relative on my YDNA side is Mark Patterson b 1764, father of Thomas Patterson, as mentioned above.
On my MtDNA side is Margaret MacDonald, b.1650 from Uig, on the Isle of Skye.
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Famous (near) relatives
Within just a short genetic distance (of 1, as close as you can get without being an exact match) from me are two historically famous people. At sometime in the distant past, these people and I have a common ancestor.
One is Flora MacDonald, who aided the escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie from the English, by disguising him as a woman and rowing him over the sea to Skye.
Was this how our "I2b1" got there?
All of this would indicate that our line was either already in Britain before Dalriada, or, arrived at about the same time, but from another direction, Denmark.
We know that the “I” haplogroup was originally from the middle east and moved west along the Mediterranean coast and then north as the ice age retreated, about 25,000 years ago and that the 223 mutation happened about 14,000 years ago. These two dates indicate a deep, ancient history, contrasting with the Celts, cAD50-500 and later the Vikings, cAD800-1100, who are relatively modern in comparison.
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I am now doubting any of what's presented in blue below. Further research is needed.
I very nearly deleted it, due to some of the information, found on www.Ancestry.com, proving to be false
Another generation?
After much searching of various genealogy websites, I found another family unit that fits in nicely as a possible earlier generation to our Mark, but without any documentation to support it, I just noted it and put the idea away.
But. upon the receipt of the 1st stage on my DNA results, I found that I am an exact match with 3 other people who have also tested with FTDNA. Two of the matches aren’t of the Patterson name, but one, Edward J Rhoades, (USA) who’s oldest known ancestor was a Thomas Patterson, born in 1788 and died in 1874, also fits nicely with this same family unit.
(Thomas Patterson 1788-1874, married Ann Cassidy and had at least 4 children, James, Thomas, Andrew & Francis.)
So, at this stage, with the confirmed and exact Y chromosome, Patterson, DNA match, have I found another generation of our Patterson line in Ireland?
Their details are as follows;
Samuel Mark Patterson
Born 1764 County Fermanagh, Ireland
Married Annie McGregor in PA USA 1841
Died 15th October 1841 Sennecaville, Guernsey, Ohio, USA
Annie McGregor
Born 1784, Cavan, Co.Cavan, Ireland.
Died 1 NOV 1853 Sennecaville, Guernsey, Ohio, USA.
Children.
Rebecca Patterson b 1804 PA USA, d 1876 Iowa USA
Samuel Patterson b 1816 PA USA, - d 1899 Rajasthan India
and Allie, Catherine, Elizabeth, John, Mary & Nancy.
Children from an earlier unknown spouse.
Mark b 1786, d 1843
Thomas b 1788, d 1874
I find it interesting that Samuel & Annie’s date of marriage is in the same year that Samuel died, 1841, indicating to me that he was on, or near to, his death bed. He was aged 77 at this time and she was 57.
When you look closely at the dates here you will find that when our Mark was born, Annie was just 2 years old.therefore, I believe that she is Marks second wife and because their details are well noted compared to the others, only Rebecca and Samuel are their children. The remainder are from another spouse. Marks brother, Thomas, (my exact mDNA match) had a son of his own, also Thomas who migrated to the USA.
I can understand why a man with an already existing family, who for whatever reason, matched up with a new woman 20 years his younger, migrated to the USofA in order to start a new life.
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Oldest known Relatives
The oldest known relative on my YDNA side is Mark Patterson b 1764, father of Thomas Patterson, as mentioned above.
On my MtDNA side is Margaret MacDonald, b.1650 from Uig, on the Isle of Skye.
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Famous (near) relatives
Within just a short genetic distance (of 1, as close as you can get without being an exact match) from me are two historically famous people. At sometime in the distant past, these people and I have a common ancestor.
One is Flora MacDonald, who aided the escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie from the English, by disguising him as a woman and rowing him over the sea to Skye.
The other is Tennessee Congressman, David (Davy) Crockett, “King of the wild Frontier” and of “The Alamo”.
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Even though it hasn’t shown up any matches with Scottish clans yet, the YDNA testing has shown up some rather strange things that are peculiar to just me. I have what is known as a “recLOH (recombinational, loss of heterozygosity) doubling mutation” which simultaneously affected 459, 464 and CDY. These three STR’s live in a duplicated pair of pieces of the Y chromosome, and sometimes one is lost or one of the pair aligns with the other and simply copies (writes over) its repeats from the other.
It looks like this;
DYS #385 a, b 15, 15
DYS #459 a, b 10, 10
DYS #464 a, b, c, d 14, 14, 14, 14
DYS #CDY a, b 38, 38
One expert says….”what I suspect has happened is that one copy has written over the other during the formation of the sperm cell. If this is true all the differences between you and others on these markers could be just one mutation event, not several as would be indicated from just comparing marker values”.
(Probably as a result of my fathers occupation at the time as a garage proprietor, and the fact that he constantly handled petrochemicals).
By reading between the lines, I gather, that if it wasn’t for this mutation making me fairly unique, I could be a much closer match to a confirmed member of a Scottish Clan than I am presently.
My results are on the files of the afore mentioned projects and should any matches show up in the future, I am assured I will be advised.
In the mean time, I am a proud and paid up member of Clan MacLaren.
Even though it hasn’t shown up any matches with Scottish clans yet, the YDNA testing has shown up some rather strange things that are peculiar to just me. I have what is known as a “recLOH (recombinational, loss of heterozygosity) doubling mutation” which simultaneously affected 459, 464 and CDY. These three STR’s live in a duplicated pair of pieces of the Y chromosome, and sometimes one is lost or one of the pair aligns with the other and simply copies (writes over) its repeats from the other.
It looks like this;
DYS #385 a, b 15, 15
DYS #459 a, b 10, 10
DYS #464 a, b, c, d 14, 14, 14, 14
DYS #CDY a, b 38, 38
One expert says….”what I suspect has happened is that one copy has written over the other during the formation of the sperm cell. If this is true all the differences between you and others on these markers could be just one mutation event, not several as would be indicated from just comparing marker values”.
(Probably as a result of my fathers occupation at the time as a garage proprietor, and the fact that he constantly handled petrochemicals).
By reading between the lines, I gather, that if it wasn’t for this mutation making me fairly unique, I could be a much closer match to a confirmed member of a Scottish Clan than I am presently.
My results are on the files of the afore mentioned projects and should any matches show up in the future, I am assured I will be advised.
In the mean time, I am a proud and paid up member of Clan MacLaren.
WoooHooo......A match at Clan MacLaren.
Sept 2016; Now, 7 years after I had my DNA tested and joined several "name" projects, I've been informed that my DNA matches some confirmed Clan MacLaren members on that Clan's project on Family Tree DNA.
This proves that we we Patterson's were once a Scottish family. This news brings my search to an end. BUT, there is always the gap between here (Australia) and Ireland to fill in.............another project for me.
Sept 2016; Now, 7 years after I had my DNA tested and joined several "name" projects, I've been informed that my DNA matches some confirmed Clan MacLaren members on that Clan's project on Family Tree DNA.
This proves that we we Patterson's were once a Scottish family. This news brings my search to an end. BUT, there is always the gap between here (Australia) and Ireland to fill in.............another project for me.