William Shingleton, Sr.

From this William Shingleton and their family line, FTYDNA all father line dna results: subclade R-BY2574 which comes from ZZ7, L159, Z255, ZZ10, and R-DF13. This ydna pathway leads back to many of the Singleton family, particularly of Broughton Manor, Lancashire, England. Their last ancestor of Broughton was Thomas Singleton of Broughton Tower b1559 and died after 1602 who married Ellen Clifton, daughter of Cuthbert Clifton. The SingletonShingleton line came through the son of Thomas and Ellen named Cuthbert Singleton of Chipping who was born in 1580 at Broughton. Then the line was Edward b1600 of Ingolhead, Richard 1619 of Ingolhead, John Singleton b1644, James b1667, John William b1690 Berkshire and his brother b1688 named James II of Ribchester, Lancashire, England. This James of Ribchester came to Beaufort County, North Carolina colony and settled in next door county named Chowan right across the river. His son John was born there in 1710 and died in Edgecombe County, NC in 1763. This John had a firstborn son in 1728-29 named John II who lived in Edgecombe, NC. Second born was William called Shingleton in 1731. He lived in Beaufort County and had a son, William Singleton born in 1755 who remained in Beaufort County, NC. He had David Adam Singleton and his son David Adam II moved to Liberty, Mississippi, USA. This line eventually tested their Ydna lineage in about 2010 and found that they came from the Haplogroup R-L159 then R-ZZ7 leading down to R-BY2574 which is the Haplogroup for all the Singletons of the Broughton Manor, Lancashire, England. Another Singleton successor line to today taking the Ydna700 test but taking the spelling Shingleton from William born 1754 in Berkshire was from John Merle Shingleton b1796 in Culpeper, Virginia and died 1883 in Taylor, West Virginia. So the Ydna 700 tests have proven the singlular heritage of the line from Culpeper, VA and the one from Beaufort County and Edgecombe County, NC, USA.

The old way of enumerating the dna pathway for John Merle Shingleton is given at the profile and it is: R1b1a2a1a1b4f. The new method calculating the SNP pathway gives us the haplogroup R-L159 which is the same as the old designation above. To get to the terminal subclade the snp path goes next to: BY519 then ZZ7 then BY2573 and finally the BY2574 group.

Here follows a quote from our Family Tree Singleton Project: "James Singleton the elder had a first son in 1690 in England whom he named John William. This John then had a son in 1710 still in England and named John Shingleton, That son immigrated after the 1754 birth of his son William Shingleton in Bray, Berkshire, England. They settled in Culpeper County, Virginia and by then John spelled his surname, Shingleton. Remember by that time his first cousin was called William Shingleton(b1731) in the colonies. So John became a Shingleton and he gave the name of William Shingleton to his son after he came with him to America. Therefore, the two Williams born 2 different years 1754-55 were third cousins, one from Beaufort, NC and the other was brought as a youth to Culpeper, Virginia and eventually died in Taylor, West Virginia. The Shingleton line then became primarily a long time West Virginia family. This profile's William Shingleton had a son also named William, but he took back the ancient spelling of Singleton.