Stephen West (Y-DNA)
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Status summary
Completed as of March 23, 2021:
- Recruiting additional direct male-line Stephen West descendants for further SNP testing - anyone interested in submitting their DNA for testing should contact Raymond T. Wing (email: wing.genealogist AT gmail DOT com)
Still to do as of March 23, 2021
- NGS/WGS test multiple descendants of Stephen West to firmly place family clade as well as test descendants to discover any subclades unique to descendants lines
Biography
First Generation
Stephen West was born about 1654, son of Bartholomew West (likely son of Matthew West) and Katherine Almy. Stephen died Dartmouth 12 Aug 1748. He married about 1683 Mercy Cooke and they had nine children (born Darmouth): Katherine (1684), Sarah (1686), Ann (1688), Bartholomew (1690), Amy (1693), Stephen (1695), John (1697), Eunice (1699) and Lois (1701).
Second Generation
Bartholomew West was born Dartmouth 31 Jul 1690 and is said to have died in 1767.
Stephen West (II) was born Dartmouth 19 May 1695 and died there 7 Jul 1769. He married Dartmouth 15 Jan 1718 Susanna Jenny and they had eight children (born Dartmouth): Hannah 1720, Mercy (1722), Samuel (1725), Anne (1727), Almy (1729/30), Stephen (1731/2), Bartholomew (1734) and Susannah (1737).
John West was born Dartmouth 27 Apr 1697. He married 24 Mar 1728 Rebecca Sisson and they had at least three children: Katherine (1730), Mary (1732) and John (1734).
Third Generation
DNA results I-M253
Previous Y-DNA testing
The West DNA Project Group: Haplogroup I documents one individual who states their Most Distant Known Paternal Ancestor (MDKPA) was Matthew West (grandfather of Stephen West). This individual has only done Y-37 STR testing and Family Tree DNA predicts he falls under the I-M253 Haplogroup.
Further DNA testing needed
NGS/WGS testing of descendants of Matthew West (and preferably of Stephen West) would further refine this prediction.
References & External Links
- Roser, Susan E. and Judith A. Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations vol. 12 Cooke 2017 addendum of 1999 2nd Edition, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA
