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Subject: Re: [DNA-R1B1C7] Dohertys and YCAab = 19-22
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:46:49 EST



In a message dated 1/21/2008 4:05:10 P.M. Central Standard Time,
writes:

David, I just had to respond to your information on the Ewing line. I am
doing research on my Laughlin line and I have many Ewing names in
connections with Laughlin and Milford families. One Nathaniel Ewing born
about 1695 and died in 1748 and was buried in the Laughlin burial ground on
Hugh Laughlin's property in Fayette Co. PA. We believe that Nathaniel Ewing
and Adam Laughlin came to the new world about the same time, 1725 from
Ireland.



You have one of the mystery Laughlin entries in our McLaughlin Surname
Project.

You're (KPX4T) an almost perfect match for another Laughlin (379QM) from
Tyrone (GD 1 at 37 markers). Other matches listed by FamilyTree DNA are:

GD 2 at 25 markers

Burns (2)
Mawhorter
Lominac

GD 4 at 37 markers

Manees

I've talked to your match in the project (379QM) and he believes his
ancestors were Scottish. I'll let him tell you more himself if he reads this post.
I don't really know if any of these matches are valid though - both you and
the other Laughlin sample have a couple of distinctive markers:

DYS 389 = 23
DYS 607 = 15

Otherwise you're an almost perfect match to the R1b1c7 modal so these
matches might be deceiving.

We have no idea which McLaughlin/Laughlin group you might fit into. Your
DNA is R1b1c7. You don't match any of the Mclaughlins from Donegal. We think
the Argyllshire Maclachlans are similar to the R1b-Scots modal which you
don't match. Another group of McLaughlins/McCloughans from Scotland also do not
match. It's possible there was yet another Scottish group of McLaughins we
haven't discovered yet, one that was R1b1c7, because we do have several R1b1c7
McLaughlins who state their ancestors came from Scotland.

Do you have a family tradition of coming from somewhere in Scotland to
ireland?

There is a tendency to assume that every McLaughlin in Scotland is a member
of the Argyllshire clan Maclachlans. Mainly because there is no
documentation on any other McLaughlin sept native to Scotland. One very early writer
(Buchanan of Auchmar) listed a number of identifiable McLaughlins branches in
Scotland in the early 1700s.

1. Maclachlan of Strathlachlan (in Argyle, "where most of the clan reside."
2. Maclauchlans of Craigintairrow, Inchchonell, and divers other heritors of
that surname in said shire
3. Maclauchlan of Auchintroig, in the shire of Stirling
4.sept of the McLauchlans residing in Morvern and Lochaber

No one, including the Clan Maclachlan Society, really know if these are
related or completely different McLaughlin septs in Scotland. They list the
same basic branches, which come down to Argyllshire, Lochaber and Stirlingshire
with offshoots from each.



John










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