Results: 21% DNA - Ireland/Scotland/Wales

My DNA reveals that I have 21% Irish/Scottish/Welsh ancestry. I have ruled out any significant amount of Irish blood in my family, which is too bad considering that my son is traveling to Ireland next Spring... I was hoping to find some places of origin for him to explore. The Scotland and Wales connections are easier to identify.

Scotland
The Croffords are most certainly from Scotland. The original Horace Crawford (Crawfurd, Craufurd) came from Scotland to New York and settled in the Genessee Valley. He was a millwright. Horace is my 3X great grandfather. My primary source is a document written by my great grandmother Ada Crofford. Granted, she sometimes has errors in her family histories, but Horace would have been a close relative - her father-in-law - so the likelihood of error in information about him is less. The Crofford DNA is probably enough to account for most of the 21% Scottish blood in me.

The Crawford clan originates in the Southern part of Scotland

Crawford Castle was in existence in 1175

Wales

John Dillingham, my 3rd great grandfather whose daughter Anna married Calvin Crawford, is said to have come to America from Wales. This particular piece of family lore is in question, but is mentioned in several fairly reliable sources.

Then there is my 14th great grandfather, Sir Ieuan Deulwyn Bushe. born in 1427 at Rodes Court in Carmarthenshire, Wales. He was a famous poet whose work (50 poems) has survived to the present day. Whitfield Barrie Abbott is descended from the Bushe line through the Sabin family.

Family Tree - paternal grandfather (5 generations)

This is my paternal grandfather Ernie Zaun's family tree.  Part of this tree doesn't go back very far because my 2X great grandfather John Adam Zaun came straight from Germany. I know where he was born, but cannot identify his parents.  My burning question to him would be, why would you come to a new country at a time when it is embroiled in a Civil War?  My 2X great grandmother Elizabeth Wellner came over from Germany with her parents on the same ship with Adam Zaun.  I found them on an immigrant passenger list, but that is all I know about them.  My great grandmother Georgia Powell ("Nanny") came from an illustrious New England lineage which includes a Governor of Connecticut and First Settlers of Hartford.  I can trace her ancestry back to the earliest colonial days in the Judd and Bradley families.

My grandfather Ernie's paternal side was from Germany as I mentioned. His mother Georgia's paternal side was from Ireland and England; her maternal side was from England and Scotland.  There are previous posts telling the stories of George James Powell, Mary Louise Judd, Orrin Bishop Judd, and Elizabeth MacDonald.  

Places to go, People to see: The Old Country

Here are the locations in Europe that our ancestors emmigrated from:

England
Paternal:

• Langley Parish, Kent - Thomas Judd (paternal)
• Suffolk - John Wilcox (paternal)
• Stourton, Whichford, Warwickshire - Thomas Welles & Alice Tomes
• Ringstead, Northamptonshire - Hannah Tuttle (paternal)
• Bridgenorth - Thomas Thompson (paternal)
• Warwickshire - Ann Thompson Hawkins (paternal)
• Bingley, West Yorkshire, England - William Bradley (paternal)
• Surrey - Thomas Dickerman (paternal)
• London - John C. Abbott (paternal)
• Gillingham, Dorset - John Greene
• Dunton-Bassett, Leicester County - William Almy
• South Kilworth, Leicestershire - Elizabeth Audrey Barlowe
• Long Lane, London, Middlesex - Roger Williams
• Worksop, Nottinghamshire - Mary Barnard
• High Laver, Essex - Roger Williams m. Mary Barnard
• Tichfield, Hampshire - William Sabin
• Stepney, Middlesex - Mary Elizabeth Wright
• St Albans, Hertfordshire - James Ashton
• Norwich, Norfolk - John Throckmorton
• Suffolk, Norfolk - Rebecca Colvill

Maternal:

• On Avon, Warwickshire - William Hickoks
• Stratford On Avon, Warwickshire - Elizabeth Stacy (m. William Hickoks)
• High Ongar, Essex Co. - Robert Lyman
• Harwich - Sarah ? Lyman
• Dorking, Surrey - Nicholas Stilwell
• Wytham, Somerset - Abigail Hopkins (m. Nicholas Stilwell)
• ? - Edward & Mary Bosworth
• Fenstanton, co. Huntington - John Howland
• Henlow, Bedfordshire - Elizabeth Tilley

Wales

• Cardiff, Glamorgan - William Edwards

Holland

• Waalwijk, Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands - Johannes Wandell 
• ? - Haight
• ? - Gerretson

Germany

• ? - Zaun
• ? - Wellner

Ireland

• ? - Wright
• ? - Powell

Scotland

• ? - Crofford