Anne Sharkly

Knolleys could be Knollys, Knowles, Nollis, or Looney.

In the book, Peck and Borden Ancestors and Descendants, by the Peck Historian, Jean Schaak Calume, wife of CB Calume, published posthumously and privately by Jean's daughter, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution via her father's line via Jacob Peck, wife Lydia Borden and their son Adam Peck, on page 37:

And, from my records, ancestors for Lavinia Adeline Peck and William C. Bewley: Subject (Julia Bewley, daughter) = 1. Her father, 2, her mother, 2 + 1 or 3.

Key:

1. 8= for George Anthony Bewley, to find his father, (2 x 8 or # 16 ), father is John Bewley, and his mother, (2X8+1=17) i.e. mother is Ann Kimble. ....

26 Patrick Sharkey RW:TyroneCo IR to Va:c.17, 527. Born abt 1720 in Tyrone Co Ireland. Patrick died in Boutetourt Co., VA in 1786, he was 66. Occupation: RW:Ensign,VA Militia.

27 Anne Looney, 528. Born abt 1720 in IR. Occupation: w>PatrickSharkey. .... Hope this is helpful.

Sincerely,

Sue

Susan Moore Teller DAR member via Jacob Peck and wife Lydia Borden, since 1987. http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.bewley/195.1/mb.ashx

Re: Anne Knowles/Knollys m. Patrick Sharkey/Shirkey; VA New xxSusanMooreTeller (View posts) Posted: 5 Jan 2003 2:57PM GMT Classification: Query Edited: 4 May 2005 7:02PM GMT Surnames: Knowles, Knolly, Looney, Sharkey, Peck Hi, Karen,

I believe the woman you refer to as Anne Knollys was actually Anne Looney. She married Patrick Sharkey, most believe, in northern Ireland. They were Presbyterians, Scotch/Irish. The Looney's owned land next to the Peck family. Their daughter, Elizabeth Sharkey married Adam Peck I. Patrick Sharkey, Jacob Peck (Adam I's father) and Adam were all patriots in the American Revolution.

Sue http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?o=20&m=517.1.6.2&p=surnames....

You said you are looking for the family of Elizabeth "Knollys", wife of Patrick Sharkey.

Ann's surname listed as Looney in family records: Adam Looney and Moses Looney said to be her brothers, were in same militia unit together with her husband, Adam Peck. If Moses Looney was her brother, then Robert Looney should be her father, but his name is not in the Knoxville TN records. .....................

Moses LOONEY BIRTH: ABT 1748, Looney Island, Mill Creek, Augusta Co. VA DEATH: 12 JUL 1824, Knox Co. TN Father: Robert LOONEY Mother: Margaret RHEA

Family 1: Sarah HOLSTEIN

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_Robert (Luney) LOONEY _ _Robert LOONEY _| | |_Elizabeth _____________ |
|--Moses LOONEY |
| ________________________ |_Margaret RHEA _| |________________________

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Notes Became prominent in TN about 1784 to 1789. An influential and wealthy man in Sullivan Co. TN and was joint or rather helped in the administration of Samuel Looney's estate.

On 21 May 1782, Court of Washington Co. VA. (Annals of SW VA by Lewis Preston Summers, page 1101) "On motion of Moses Looney in behalf of Ann Cross, Adm. of Samuel Looney deceased request that Sullivan Court choose guardians and settle with Adm."

.............. From: "Gerald Graves" <GravesConsulting@mail.com> To: "Susan Knight" <knightmare@enter.net> Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 7:01 PM Subject: Moses Looney house

(from SMT: My ancestor, Adam Peck, shared work at the mill with his brother, Moses, who remained there. My Adam Peck and his wife, Elizabeth (Gayle), widow of his brother, Patrick, moved on the Dahlonega, GA, where Adam worked as a surveyor in the County Court House (at Lumpkin Co., GA) and also looked for gold in that, the site of the first gold strike in the USA. He did not find gold. So he and his family lived in that house in Mossy Creek (later Jefferson City), Jeffferson Co. TN as well as that of Moses and his family).

Is this (picture he was viewing on the net) the house of Moses Looney or Moses Looney Peck? (from SMT: it was the home of Adam and Moses Looney Peck)

The Looney family were very early settlers in SW VA and I have a photo in my files of the family house and/or mill. Looney's Mill was a significent mill in the area. There was a Capt. Looney's Company of Botetourt Co Milita c. 1770-1783 and several Looney's in the area. Benjamin Peck was granted 83 A on Looney's Mill Creek east of Fincastle. Moses Looney (not Peck) received a land grant from NC in Sullivan Co, TN in 1788. Other Looneys also received grants in the Sullivan Co, TN area. So the families must have been well aquainted.

from SMT: back from the letter above to my data:

Some web pages today show Patrick Sharkey's wife Elizabeth name at birth as Knollys. I checked all on the net at the time I first noticed this, about a year ago, and found that there is absolutely no documentation available from anyone so far for the surname Knollys except material from one person, without documentation available. When I wrote and even called people I traced that data back to only one known source: a kinswoman of mine with whom I corresponded in the 1980's, Paulette MacBeath Ownsby. All of us shared data in that era, but frankly, most information came from Bernice White and Jean Shaack Calume, both long term Peck historians, and both now deceased. At the time, Paulette and I just picked up their records and both of us began pulling records over the years to document them and add to them. However, the old Peck records held in Knoxville, TN Library show Elizabeth's name as Looney at birth. I joined the NS DAR on the line of Jacob Peck, and my records passed their well know scrutiny.

The name Knollys IS part of the "Peck" line via Eliza Gayle Peck, daughter of Christopher Gayle and wife of two of Adam and Elizabeth Sharkey Peck's sons, Patrick, who died in the War of 1812, and Adam, my ancestor, Eliza's second husband and Patrick's brother.

Elizabeth Gayle's 6th Great-Grandmother IS Ann (Knollys) West, daughter of Sir Francis Knollys and wife of Sir Thomas West. When I contacted Paulette by phone this last year, she had her records stored and could not view them, but felt she had put down Knollys instead of Looney in error, as the Knoxville records held by the Peck family do state Looney as Elizabeth's name at birth. Then, the name Knollys seemed to fly across the web from site to site. I believe it is in error, and fear you will never find information for this woman without looking under the Looney line in Botetoute Co., (later Augusta) VA and prior to that, Ireland.

Hope this is helpful.

Sincerely yours,

Susan Moore Teller

http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?o=30&m=517.1.6.4&p=surnames....

Mitochondrial DNA: T2B5

Mitochondrial (mtDNA) Haplogroup T derives from the haplogroup JT, which also gave rise to haplogroup J. Haplogroup T is thought to have originated in Mesopotamia and/or the Fertile Crescent (modern Syria and Turkey) approximately 10,000-12,000 years ago, and then moved northwest in to Europe and east as far as modern Pakistan and India.

In his popular book The Seven Daughters of Eve, Bryan Sykes, who is himself in Haplogroup T, named the originator of this group "Tara," which means rocky hill in Gaelic. Sykes believes that: "Tara herself lived 17,000 years ago in the northwest of Italy among the hills of Tuscany and along the estuary of the river Arno."

The mitochondrial Haplogroup T is best characterized as a European lineage. With an origin in the Near East greater than 45,000 years ago, the major sub-lineages of Haplogroup T entered Europe around the time of the Neolithic 10,000 years ago. Once in Europe, these sub-lineages underwent a dramatic expansion associated with the arrival of agriculture in Europe. Today, we find Haplogroup T*, the root Haplogroup for Haplogroup T, widely distributed in Europe.

Haplogroup T originated in the Near East about 45,000 years ago, not long after humans emerged from Africa. The haplogroup mostly stayed in place until about 15,000 years ago, when the glaciers that had covered much of Eurasia during the Ice Age began to retreat. As Europe's climate warmed and its long-frozen landscape turned green, people began moving north into the Alps and beyond.

Representatives of haplogroup T were among those first post-Ice Age migrants into Europe. Today about 8% of Europeans can trace their maternal ancestry to the haplogroup, although some of them are descended from people who arrived after the advent of agriculture about 10,000 years ago.

Haplogroup T can still be found in the Near East as well, where it reaches levels of about 10% among Palestinians, Turks and Syrians. Over the years it has spawned a number of sub-haplogroups, some of which have notable histories of their own.

Royal T

The mitochondrial DNA of Russia's final Tsar, Nicholas II, falls into the the T haplogroup. According to his genealogical pedigree, which is well-established because of his membership in the European royal house, his maternal ancestry traces back to a 15th-century empress of the Holy Roman Empire who was born in Slovenia. This was established when genetic testing was done on his remains to authenticate his identity. Assuming all relevant pedigrees are correct, this includes all female-line descendants of his female line ancestor Barbara of Celje (1390-1451), wife of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor. This includes a great number of European nobles, including George I of Great Britain and Frederick William I of Prussia (through the Electress Sophia of Hanover), Charles I of England, George III of the United Kingdom, George V of the United Kingdom, Charles X Gustav of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, Olav V of Norway, and George I of Greece.

Haplogroup T2

An offshoot of haplogroup T, T2 has spread over the millennia from its birthplace in the Near East to northeastern Africa and throughout Europe, riding waves of migration that followed the end of the Ice Age and the origin of agriculture. At the tail end of the Ice Age about 13,000 years ago, one migration appears to have carried the T2 haplogroup from the Near East into northern Africa, especially Ethiopia and Egypt. The origin of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent – a horseshoe-shaped region encompassing Mesopotamia, the Levant and the lower Nile Valley – spawned a second migration that carried T2 deep into Europe. Today the haplogroup is widespread, albeit at low levels, in the populations of Scandinavia, Germany, France and Britain.

A particular version of the T2 haplogroup has been detected in 4% of the present-day Spanish population. The same version has also been found in DNA extracted from 7,000-year-old skeletons excavated in northeastern Spain, an indication that the distinctive form of T2 arrived in southwestern Europe about the same time as agriculture.

The Genographic Project states that early people with Haplogroup T were likely some of the first organized agriculturalists and pastoralists, and that they probably comprised the group which first brought settled agriculture and pastoralism on to the European continent, bringing the "Neolithic Revolution" to Europe; they write: "Although the haplogroup was present during the early and middle Upper Paleolithic, [Haplogroup] T is generally considered one of the main genetic signatures of the Neolithic expansions. While groups of hunter-gatherers and subsistence fishermen had been occupying much of Eurasia for tens of thousands of years, around ten thousand years ago a group of modern humans living in the Fertile Crescent-present day eastern Turkey and northern Syria-began domesticating the plants, nuts, and seeds they had been collecting. What resulted were the world's first agriculturalists, and this new cultural era is typically referred to as the Neolithic. Groups of individuals able to support larger populations with this reliable food source began migrating out of the Middle East, bringing their new technology with them. By then, humans had already settled much of the surrounding areas, but this new agricultural technology proved too successful to ignore, and the surrounding groups quickly copied these new immigrants. Interesting, DNA data indicate that while these new agriculturalists were incredibly successful at planting their technology in the surrounding groups, they were far less successful at planting their own genetic seed. Agriculture was quickly and widely adopted, but the lineages carried by these Neolithic expansions are found at frequencies seldom greater than 20 percent in Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia.

T2

Haplogroup T2 is one of the older sub-lineages and may have been present in Europe as early as the Late Upper Palaeolithic.

In AD 79, thousands of people were buried alive during the volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Some had maternal ancestry tracing to haplogroup T2.

DNA extracted from teeth and hair found at the original burial site of Jesse James indicates that the famous outlaw's maternal lineage derives from the T2 haplogroup.