Genealogy De Bruijn in 4D
Genealogy De Bruijn in 4D
This genealogy has been established by Marco J. de Bruijn in Pijnacker, The Netherlands.
This genealogy has been established by Marco J. de Bruijn in Pijnacker, The Netherlands.
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Finding-locations and Pieces of Evidence (Sources)
Web_CharonBrenham |
Brief Life History of Charon Brenhan on FamilySearch.org (Website) Domein: www.FamilySearch.org |
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It is known that Charon Brenhan immigrated to America in the mid 1690s as a youth; he was examined by the town council who adjudged him to be about 12, then assigned him to be an indentured servant to a man named George Davenport. ("according to" -- the Act of Indenture). Caron/Caran is the first American ancestor of his line, and there are 24 variant spellings of his surname, as well as several for his given name (it being Irish, it was usually misspelled -- in a colony of Englishmen). He and his immediate descendants, from their marks made on their wills, were all illiterate (common for that time and place). Y-DNA test results have confirmed he is NOT a descendant of Gabriel Branham from West Riding, Yorkshire, England. (R1b1b3 M-269 is Caran's Y-dna type, and it is typically Celtic). In the early 1650s (perhaps about the time of Caran's grandfather), Oliver Cromwell exiled the prominent members of the every Irish clan from their home counties, including the McBranan clan from their home in County Roscommon. Where those ancestors went is unknown. Caron's Y-dna differs from that of the English Branham line's Y-dna (the group out of West Riding in York), although both surnames were present in the same North Farnham Parrish (in Richmond County, VA) at the same time (and would have gone to the same church, as it was the only church). Both spellings were applied to both the Irishman and the Englishman in the records of the time. The Family Tree DNA surname project for Branam/Branham and Brannan/Brannon (USA) -- gives Y-dna tests results from both families (more than one family has used both spellings over time -- literacy being rare for so long a time in early America, and records clerks had a habit of merely sounding out how to spell a name). Ydna differences were established between the English and the Irish lines, and are unrelated for genealogical purposes. (This laid to rest an earlier genealogical theory that Gabriel Branham was the missing father of Caran Branan, and Caran was the missing son/grandson of Gabriel Branham (who had a son John who disappeared from West Riding parish records -- and possibly even went to America). One Brannon descendant of Caran has an unimpeachable paper trail of descent from Caron the First, and other testees whose Y-dna results match his can, it follows, establish "Caron the 1st" as their American Patriarch. No known father has been identified for Caron, but the coincidences that Caron named his first son John (he died young and left no issue) had led some earlier genealogists to surmise that Caron's father likely was named John, or the Irish equivalent "Sean," according to an established Irish naming custom. If this was so, it was a coincidence unconnected to the missing son John of Gabriel Branham. |
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| Caran Brannan (*1687-†1749) (Charon Brenhan) as main character |