Autosomal data come from both the  "Jarrell DNA” and GEDmatch’s “Jarrell DNA". FTDNA member are encouraged to also join the free GEDmatch group since it is larger and offers more tools for analysis. Unlike Y-DNA and mtDNA, FTDNA does not allow publicly posted autosomal results of privacy concerns.

1.William Jarrell and Susannah Parks Family.

This couple married in Rowen Co., NC in1770, lived in Burke Co., NC, and moved with their grown children to Floyd Co., KY shortly after 1800. Some members took a detour through Russell Co., VA. Their children were: Sarah  (child, no marriage); Susannah (m. Abel Crisp); Agga; Ancel; Elizabeth  (m. Henry Weddington); William, Jr.; Carroll (male); Mary (children, no marriage);and Vashti (m. Michael Crum). Parks Jarrell is often included, but was more likely a grandson. (See5.Haplogroup R-M269, Miscellaneous below for more information.) This group spread along the WV/KY boarder throughout the 19^th century. In addition, William had an earlier marriage to an unknown woman, with whom he had a son, Joseph, in Rowan Co., NC.

A. Jane Jarrell(b. 1786, VA; d. aft. 1870, Wayne Co., WV; 5 children, no marriages). Jane’s origins were long questioned, but DNA shows she was probably William Jarrell and Susannah Parks’ granddaughter. Her Jarrell parent was one of their two oldest children, Sarah or Susannah (jr.). Jane’s children were: John, Vashti (m. Samuel V. Damron), Rachel (m. David Webb), Harrison, and Samuel. Jane and her four oldest children first appeared in 1820 living among the William Jarrell/Susannah Parks family in Floyd Co., KY. By 1825, she had moved north and slightly east to Cabell Co., VA, now Wayne Co., WV, where her youngest son was born. See II. Y-DNA Results, below, for more on her sons’ paternity. Identifying Rachel’s father is more difficult without the Y-DNA shortcut to her male line, requiring a larger autosomal and X DNA database. No one from Vashti’s branch has joined the project thus far.

B. William F. Jarrell(b. 1790s, VA; lived Wayne Co., WV; d. 1888, Scioto Co., OH) was another 19^thcentury Cabell Co., VA/Wayne Co., WV mystery Jarrell. Autosomal DNA says he was related to the William Jarrell and Susannah Parks family. He should not be confused with William and Susannah’s son, William Jarrell, Jr., who lived in Floyd Co., KY. William F. Jarrell was probably Jane’s brother or cousin – he was too old to be her son, as some assume. A Y-DNA candidate would help us learn more. This William married 1st Maggie, and 2^ndMary Ann Chandler. His children were: Catherine (m. Thomas Adams), John, Martha Jane (William M. Stephenson), James, Joseph, George, Melcena (m. James McCallister), Minerva, Lucinda (m. William H. Chapman), Mary(m. Harrison Thacker) and Leander.

C. Eli Crum (b. 1828) is sometimes mistaken as a son of Vashti Jarrell and Michael Crum because his descendants show Jarrell matches. However, these only occur when the match is a descendant of a Jarrell/Crum union, indicating the shared DNA came through the Crum lines. Census reports infer that Eli was one of three children that Mary(Polly) Crum (dr. of Adam Crum)had with unknown fathers before her 1835 marriage to Pleasant Bannister in Lawrence Co., KY. Eli retained the Crum name and lived with his mother and step-father.

2.Pryor Garrell/”Gurl”

 Pryor Jarrell and his relatives lived in Cabell Co., VA/WV in the early 1800s and left or died after 1830. Pryor went to Illinois. His descendant has small autosomal matches to the William Jarrell and Susannah Parks. One of Pryor’s older relatives was Joseph Garrell. While no confirming connection can be made, it’s worth noting that  William Jarrell’s son from his first marriage was named Joseph Jarrell. Jane Jarrell and William F. Jarrell, above, overlapped with Pryor’s family for a few years. 

3.1. Joseph Jarrell / Josiah Jarreld (b.1820 and d. 1863, Petersburg, VA). The descendant cannot trace the line any further back.

The charts for the project’s Y-DNA result can be found in the “Results” link in the box to the left. Although haplogroup members share common ancestors, those ancestors may have lived tens of thousands of years ago, rendering them impossible to trace. For convenience sake, FTDNA defines a match as two men whose most recent common ancestor lived in genealogical time. By that definition, two men may be in the same haplogroup, but they are not considered a match because their common ancestor lived in the very distant past.

A1. Daniel Jarrell (b. Caroline Co., VA, 1740; d. 1804, Monroe Co., VA/VA)

Daniel Jarrell, son of James Jarrell, lived much of his life in Culpeper Co., VA. His siblings were: James Jr., Alexander, Richard, Elizabeth (no marriages),Jeremiah, and John. Daniel married Mary Davis in Culpeper Co. about 1770 and they relocated to Greenbrier/Monroe Co., VA/WV in 1782. Their children were: Gibson, Elijah, Simeon, John, Tomsey (m. Robert Gore),Betsy (m. John Harvey), Lemuel (not Samuel), Katey (m. James Browder), Benjamin, and Polly (m. William Humphreys). After Daniel’s death, many of his children settled in what became Logan, Boone, Fayette, and Raleigh Counties, VA/WV.

These donors are matches in the large, western European Haplogroup R-M269. The difference in their haplo nomenclature is due to subgrouping. Kit 243894 descends from Daniel’s son, John Jarrell. Kit 958255 is also a Daniel Jarrell Y descendant. Donors 107028 and 29418 descend from Francis Burrell (b. MD abt. 1679; d.1775, Prince George’s Co., MD), and all four men share a currently unknown common ancestor. One of the Burrell descendants has an unproven theory that Francis Burrell was part of an Essex Co., MA line. The common ancestor of these members is thought to have lived prior to Daniel’s father, James Jarrell, who was bornin 1702. The thought is these Jarrells were originally Burrells who changed the pronunciation slightly at some point. More testing and research will be needed to untangle this unexpected result.

A2. Daniel Jarrell (b. Caroline Co., VA, 1740; d. 1804, Monroe Co., VA/VA)

Kit 956809 has a solid paper trail leading back to Daniel Jarrell’s oldest son, Gibson, so it was a surprise when he did not match others in this group. This points to anon-parental event, where a male with the Jarrell name was not a genetic Jarrell son. Others will need to test to learn more, but either Gibson was not Daniel’s genetic son, or the break came after him. I-M253 is primarily a Scandinavian group that includes some men of Scottish descent. Given the demographics of both Culpeper County and West Virginia, a Scottish link is more likely, but even that is speculation at this point.

B1.Deep South A: I-M253.

At least two Jarrell lines joined the migration to Georgia, Louisiana and Alabama in the 1830s and 1840s, spurred by the growth of the cotton industry. The first line is haplogroup I-M253.I-M253 is heavily Scandinavian, but includes some Scottish men. Again, the immigrating ancestor is more likely to have been Scottish than Scandinavian, but the line has not been confirmed back to the immigrating ancestor.

B2.Deep South B: R-M269. See2, above, for background. R-M269 is a large, western European haplogroup that includes men from the British Isles. Deep South B includes a family that does not carry the Jarrell name due to a non-parental event, but matches male Jarrells in this line. One member names William P. Jarrell (b. 1776) of Culpeper Co., VA as his most distant ancestor.

C1.Jane Jarrell (b.1786, VA; d. aft. 1870, Wayne Co., WV): sons John Jarrell and Samuel Jarrell. See “2. Jane Jarrell” in I. Autosomal Results for background. Descendants of Jane’s three sons submitted Y-DNA tests which presents possibilities for one son and confirmed another’s paternity.   

a. John Jarrell (b.1806, VA; d. 1884, Wayne Co., WV) was quoted as saying his father was Lazarus Damron, who crossed paths with the Jarrell family for many years. Kit 65231 (37 marker) was submitted to the FTDNA Damron Project over 10 years ago, which confirmed the statement. Since that donor is now deceased, his son, Kit 895495 (Big Y), also tested to provide the project with a higher level of data.

b. Samuel Jarrell (b. July 1825, Cabell Co., VA; d. 22 Apr. 1908, Wayne Co., WV) did not state who his father was, though he looked very much like his older brother, John. Kit B716158 shows that Samuel was fathered by a Damron, but which Damron is not clear. The Jarrell DNA Project is working with FTDNA’s Damron project to try to discover more.

C2.Jane Jarrell (b.1786, VA; d. aft. 1870, Wayne Co., WV). Son Harrison Jarrell (b. 1819, Floyd Co., KY; d. aft. 1890, Martin Co., KY)  did not leave clues about his father. Kit 941193’s matches show that Harrison’s father was a member of one of the two Crum families (Adam Crum and Henry Crum) in Floyd Co. in 1819, or less likely, a member of the Click family. The Crum families were closely related, so the current data cannot exclude either one. Our donor had Adam Crum matches, and Kit 6953817 is a descendant of Henry Crum who consented to test for the project. Nonetheless, more data is needed to narrow the field further.

 D. Haplogroup E-M35: Jarretts. This group is comprised of Jarretts. One member is an American who traces his line back to Killian Jarrett, born in Rowen Co., NC, 1773. The other is English, and traces his line to William Jarrett, born 1738 in Kent. The common ancestor is not yet clear, and neither member matches anyone else in the Y-DNA group. Whether they may be related to Jarrells is still somewhat unclear.

E. Haplogroup R-M269, Miscellaneous.

Although these men share a haplogroup, they are not closely related enough to match each other or any other Y-DNA members of the project.  

A. Canadian line: Kit B332059represents a Jarrell line that immigrated to Canada later than the United States lines, and from Canada into the U.S.

B. Unknown: Kit 836564represents a line that does not carry the Jarrell name, but has distant FitzGerald matches.

C. Parks Jarrell (b.1801, Burke Co., NC; d. 1881, Elliott Co., KY). Kit 915171 represents Parks Jarrell who was probably a grandson of William Jarrell and Susannah Parks (see I. Autosomal Results). While Parks’ precise relationship to William and Susannah is unclear, the donor has many FitzGerald matches. William was known to sometimes sign his name “FitzJarrell”, leading to the theory that Parks’ Jarrell parent was one of William and Susannah’s sons. If that is correct, then the candidates for his father are Agga Jarrell and Ancel Jarrell.

Maggie (d.by 1835), 1st wife of William F. Jarrell (1798-1888) in I. Family Finder and Other Autosomal Results, is represented by kit B12950. Little else is known about Maggie, other than the couple’s oldest children were born in Indiana. Whether Maggie ever lived in Cabell Co., VA, where William married his second wife, Mary Ann Chandler, in1835 isn’t known.

Jane Jarrell (1786-aft.1870) is represented by kit 932915. The donor descends from Jane’s daughter Rachel Jarrell in I. Family Finder and Other Autosomal Results. Jane’s mother is suspected to have either Sarah or Susannah Jarrell, the two oldest daughters of William Jarrell and Susannah Parks, above. It is possible that the same woman was also the mother of William F. Jarrell since both Jane and William were born in Virginia. A search for a documented mtDNA candidate from Susannah Parks’ line for comparison has been unsuccessful so far.