Remington Group- Background

Background

This project was started so that this well recognized surname would have a presence on the website. Hopefully, more Remington surname participants will be added to help administer and carry on the research efforts. DNA testing may help any Remington researchers break the bottlenecks that exist in the written records and push the lines of descent further back than possible with existing traditional genealogical sources. The surname descendants do have a fascinating history and connecting them to a common source or family may shed light on the ever increasing interest in people's personal history and connection with the ancestors. It is a fun hobby and I hope more become interested and help collect the wealth of information that science and research can bring together.

Members can access the order form for the Remington Group project by going to www.familytreedna.com. In the upper right corner, there is a box that says Search a DNA Project. Type in Remington. It will take you to a link to that project order form. We recommend at least the 25 marker test, but preferably the 37 or 67 marker tests.

There are multiple variants to this name, but the common modern spelling of this surname is Remington. One objective of this group is to try to link the several lines of the Remington family in the United States and determine a common origin or source within England. If anyone knows a male using the Remington surname, please sign them up so we can research DNA assumptions about migration patterns for origins.

We currently have four male line Remington surname participants with Y-DNA results.

Remington 3 is Haplogroup R1b, but may have some deviation in descent legitimacy between 5 and 7 generations back - so the source of that surname consistency may be in doubt. See profile at ysearch.org as KRP6R.

Two others can trace back to at least 1788 using the Remington surname in each generation. Both are Haplo I1 (formerly I1a Haplogroup)and deviate at DYS 390. The connection is presumed to be about 7-11 generations back (or possibly 200 to 300 years ago).

Remington 1 and 4 (identical matches) on this common haplogroup can trace use of the surname uninterrupted back to 1801 in Tenn. and probably back to 1788 in NC (profile FCBRC at ysearch.org). The common ancestry is in Indiana (near Tippecanoe and later Boone Counties) by 1829, having left Blount County, Tenn. about 1825-6.

Remington 2 in this haplogroup can trace the surname use back to Manlius, NY and with more work on Illustrious Remington likely back to the Warwick,R.I./Conn./Mass. line that supposedly descended from a John Remington who settled initially in Newbury, Massachusetts in 1637, then to Rowley, Mass. and then Connecticut.

This John may be the common ancestor to many of the Remington surname users in America. He and his wife and two sons are thought to have come in about 1637 from the Garrowby/Lund/ Lockington/Rowley area of Yorkshire, England. Some of the Remington family history in that area for the 1600s does talk about this family name and hints at possible religious disputes that may have led to immigration to America. We currently are testing a Yorkshire area Remington surname descendant to see if this line may be closely linked by DNA. Results will be posted. Another possible Remington surname descendant from the Yorkshire area may also join.

This early Mass. line was later involved in some witch trial claims in Mass. and may have seeded the Remington line that appears in the late 1600s in the Salem County area of southern New Jersey. Once this line got into Conn. and NY it spread out quite rapidly west by the 1800s.

Remington 2 results and contact info can be viewed at ysearch.org as profile 8T9ZJ.

A new Remington surname with only 12 markers joined with a resulting R1b1b2 haplogroup. This new one will be updated when confirmed. Kentucky origins likely, but will confirm tree as we can.

Lastly, a Remington who can trace ancestry back to David and Sybil in 1780 NH (Tories during Revolution) and likely further back to the Connecticut Remington lines was matched very closely trhough genetree. So the Northern Remington lines do seem to be close so far in the I1 haplogrouping.

We need more results from male line Remington surname descendants who can trace uninterrupted lines back in time. At present, the assumption is that this Remington line is dominated with Haplogroup I1 results. This would be consistent with a Viking or Angle association with settlements in the Northumberland area of England in the 600s to 10th century, but anything is possible on original sources for the first consistent users of this surname.

Please feel free to email JP57@Hotmail.com with any questions. Thanks and good luck.

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