Merrick (Y-DNA)

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Status summary

Completed as of March 24, 2021:

  • Recruiting additional direct male-line William Merrick descendants for NGS/WGS SNP testing - anyone interested in submitting their DNA for testing should contact Raymond T. Wing (email: wing.genealogist AT gmail DOT com)

Biography

First Generation

William Merrick (II) was born prob. Duxbury 15 Sep 1643, son of William Merrick[1] & Rebecca Tracy. He died Harwich 30 Oct 1732. He married Abigail, daughter of Giles Hopkins and they had nine children: Rebecca (1668), William (1670-1670/1), Stephen (1673), Benjamin (1674), Nathaniel (1675), John (c1680 m. but appar. no ch.), Joshua (c1680), Ruth (1684) and Samuel (d unm.).

Second Generation

Third Generation

  1. William is said to have been the oldest of four brothers who emigrated to Charlestown aboard the James in the Spring of 1636.

DNA Results R1b-Z375

Previous testing

The Meyrick, Merrick Family Project does not publicly disclose their DNA results. However, the administrator has developed a variety of online sites. One of his sites documented the 67 Y-STR results of a Merrick descendant as published at Y-Search.org (now defunct). Plugging in these Y-STR results into the Nevgen.org haplogroup predictor gives a predicted Haplogroup of: R1b U106>Z18>Z17>>L257>>Z375 with a probability of 98.48%.


NGS/WGS testing

NGS/WGS testing of other known William Merrick Y-DNA descendants would refine the haplogroup for the family and possibly define subclades for descendants.

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