Do You Have Peaslee/Peasley/Peisley/Paisley/Pasley/Pacley in your family?

Question

If you have any of these surnames in your family tree, we'd love to have you join us in the Peasley and Paisley Name Studies.

PEASLEY PEASLEE PEISLEY PAISLEY PASLEY PACLEY 

The Peasley/Paisley ONS is registered with the Guild of One-Name Studies

There is also Paisley DNA Project on Family Tree DNA

Answer here to join the project, make sure to let me know which one you would like to focus on: Paisley or Peasley.

There is a lot to do, check out the Research Pages section of the study page:
*https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Peasley_Name_Study#Research_Pages
*https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Paisley_Name_Study#Research_Pages

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Glad you are starting the ONS. I am not volunteering as I have too many Littles to do! But I did add some notable Pasleys/Paisleys in the Anglo- Scottish Borders with a Little connection. See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Paisley-576 for example.

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Thanks, Chris! Adding the ONS sticker. Charmaine started it back in 2016, due to the similarity with Peasley, I joined in 2020.

Answer 1

Jane Paisley is related to me but I am not exactly sure how.  I have a DNA connection but I have yet to work out the paper trail.

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See also her husband Charles Watt and son Joseph whose relationship to me is speculative.  Joseph may be a place holder for the actual father of Alonzo Culp

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Hi Michael!
I've one of those types of profiles as well, so frustrating!
Here's the Paisley Study Page if you'd like to put yourself down as a member of the study?
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Paisley_Name_Study#Membership
It would be great to have you join!
az :)

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Thanks for the offer to join but life these days is too unpredictable.

thanks for starting this project however!

Answer 2

Not offering to volunteer but thought this info might be of help.

John Piesley  / Peisley  ,* the Australian Bushranger is my first cousin 4x removed. However his father was baptised as Thomas Peasland and was transported to Australia with that name. Thomas was called Peisley (also spelled Piesley or Peasley ) as an AKA in Australian  convict records. Back in England the name of his family is recorded mostly  as Peasland but I've seen Pasenall and Pasewell on records.  None of the family were literate and I imagine had thick local Midland accents ;clerks wrote down what they heard.

Thomas Peasland/Peisley's descendants in Australia  continued using  Peisley/Piesley. 

*John was already on the tree with the alternative spelling so I have adopted the new one and have proposed a merge. 

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Hi Helen,
Thanks for the information, adopting the profile, and submitting a merge of those profiles!
az

Answer 3

Congratulations on your study. I'd like to add that Peasley et al. is often thought to be related to Beasley et al. In my research, I'm finding no such connection. In my research, it seems possible that there is an etymological relationship between Peasley and Paisley but I can't verify that. OTOH, I'm not seeing a relationship between Beasley and Baisley, however. I have had a Peasley apply to the Beasley YDNA study and I'd be happy to share with him information about your study. While I'm not in a position to participate in your study, nor am I asking you to participate in mine, I'd be happy to discuss questions of etymology and surname history.

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Thanks Douglas, that would be great!

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I just reviewed my previous contacts. The one with whom I had been in contact was [[Peasley-315|Takoda Peasley]]. He is also co-admin of the Paisley/Peasley project at FTDNA and has taken a YDNA test. I see that his Peasley lineage has been connected with one that goes back to the 1500s. There is already a YDNA test listed there that matches the Haplogroup. Their EKA is in the mid 1600s. I also notice in the FTDNA project that there is a significant matching group of Paisleys harking back to a Paisley clan in Scotland. They are all of the R-M269 Haplogroup where the Peasley tests mentioned above (coming from England rather than Scotland) are of the I-M253 Haplogroup. This would suggest to me that Peasley and Paisley might not be of the same origin, though more DNA data would be important as well as the etymological question. I have contact Takoda referring to this G2G post.

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Here is the link to the Paisley Public site for FTDNA: https://www.familytreedna.com/public/paisley?iframe=ycolorized

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Ah... now I see that your mother is in this Peasley lineage I'm referring to.

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Thanks, Douglas, yes, Takoda and I are in contact and are working on several aspects of the ONS and the DNA project together.

Answer 4

Hello, I have Peasley, Peaslee's in my direct family tree. I am very new at Wikitree and not sure how this all works.  Would love to work on a project to learn more.

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Hi, Penny
Welcome to WikiTree! Joining a project is a great way to learn more about WikiTree and how to use it!
I'm sending you a private message, if you don't see it in a bit, check your junk or spam folder.
:) az

Answer 5

I've been working on sourcing and see quite a large number of the family that have birth records for both Amesbury, MA and Newton or some other town in NH. How do we determine which,  if there are no other family records during the time period? One example is Abigail Peaslee, Amesbury, MA and Newton, NH The only time I've seen this is when someone moves to a town that wants all births registered but they usually put the real place of birth, not act as if they were born where they are migrating too.

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Yeah, that area is always hard. Since it was Amesbury at the time of her birth, that's what I'd go with.
"Newton was originally part of Salisbury, Massachusetts; later, part of Amesbury, Massachusetts; then part of the West Parish of Amesbury; then part of New Town or South Hampton, Massachusetts" - Newton, New Hampshire on Wikipedia

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Oh, that's a shock. I didn't realize part of the original Massachusetts settlements became part of New Hampshire. I've see a lot of border changes but didn't expect that with Amesbury. Thanks, Azure.

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You're so welcome, happy to help! Thanks for all your hard work on the project.
az :)

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Well, I thought that would be the end of my questions about location but after researching the border changes, it seems that Newton, New Hampshire was born 1741 , previously having been Amesbury, MA. Abigail was born 1760 so there should not be an Amesbury record for her. If she were born very near 1741 I might expect a record in both locations but this is two decades later. Please read the section I added to her bio regarding border changes to make sure I'm correct. [[Peaslee-162|Abigail Peasley]] I would say she was born in Newton, NH but don't know how to explain the Amesbury record.