Question

Looking for Lowmans or Franklins in Burke County, NC

Answer 1

Hi Laurie,

I'm a direct descendant of a Thomas Franklin who lived in Chester, SC in 1801. He might have moved there from Virginia? (Note that there were several Thomas Franklins in that area about that time.) If you have a male Franklin descendant also, I have taken a Y-DNA test at Family Tree DNA.

BTW, I also have an account M342450 on GEDMatch.com if you want to compare autosomal DNA.

Thanks,

Les

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I have never taken a DNA test..I'm a rookie at this and I love it.

The Franklin's that I am looking for are in NC..thank you for your answer.

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NC is between Virginia and SC. It's possible we are related or it's possible we are not. I'm a participant in the Franklin Family Genetics Project, and in that project, there may be up to 20 separate Franklin family lines. These lines have been determined by DNA tests. I'm in the FY02 subgroup. Here is the website for the project http://franklingenetics.org/.

Last May, the FY02 subgroup had a reunion in Southern Alabama. I met about 60 of my cousins I never knew existed. Through U.S. Census, birth/death, and marriage records, I have the paperwork to know my connection to 5 of those 60. I'm still working to try to determine my connection to the rest. At least I know were to look.

For the non-Franklin of my family, I took an autosomal DNA test and have transferred my DNA data to GEDMatch.com. Both where I took the test and at GEDMatch, I have lists of people to whom I'm related and can often contact them through email. The three companies that sell such a DNA test (autosomal) are 23andMe.com, Ancestry.com, and FamilyTreeDNA.com.

On a separate note, in getting family tree info from Ancestry.com, often people construct their trees without documentation and there are a lot more mistakes there than on WikiTree.com.

Good luck in your search.

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Thank you Les Franklin, that's awesome too!!  I have lots of relatives in Burke County, NC. My grandfather is from there.  He was in the sawmill business and he moved down here to Ga with the timber company that he worked for.  He had several brothers and sisters that stayed in NC.  His sister Dora Ann Lowman married Columbus Franklin, we called him Uncle Irc. I only met them once when i was a small child.  My parents hardly ever went to visit and that makes me sad because there are so many Lowmans that are still there and i am probably kin to them and i dont even know them.

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hi laurie. it's possible we might be related. my adams family has a margaret charlotte franklin hopkins, married to my great, great frandfather james laban hopkins of ok, but her family came from mo and nc. her father was jonathon freeland or freelin franklin, born in 1823 in wilkes county, nc. he died in 1909 in cheney , ks, which is where margaret charlotte was born and living when she met her husband james laban hopkins jr.  jonathon franklin's dad was david franklin born in 1801 in burke county nc. he died in mcminn county tn. he was married to rebecca collins schell and they had 12 children. and david's dad was john franklin b 1727, married phoebe parker in 1802. my email if you think we might be related.

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Hi Linda...Yes I think I do remember a Phoebe Parker on my list of relatives...I am sorry that it has taken me so long to see this..I haven't been on the g2g feed much...And I didn't get that email...I'm gonna check right now and see exactly how I'm related to Phoebe Parker...My E-mail is laurielowman21@gmail.com

Well I just found out that Phoebe Parker is my 5th great grandmother...But I have her marrying John Franklin Sr in 1758.. Was her mother's name Anna Cash Tyler?

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I am, I think, descended from Nancy Franklin of Burke County, NC whom I believe was the spouse of William N Stone Jr.

We know Nancy Married a Stone.

We know William Married a Nancy, and someone her age was accounted for in his census record of 1810 in Burke, NC, but he died before the 1830 census, and there's no 100% proof of this union, and no other names on the Censuses until 1850

I'm descended from their child Dolphous Stone (100% solid there)

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You and I both are in the same boat (Phoebe's my 6th GGM) , and yes, I have John Franklin Sr as her spouse and her mother's name Anna Cash Tyler.

I'm descenced from Pvt. John Edward Franklin Jr. , his daughter Nancy, and down through the Stones

Answer 2

That's me again!!  I'm not annonyous anymore.  Am I spelling that wrong??   

I love Wikitree!!  It seemed as if I was making some progress with Les, I think that was his name, but since it took me so long to reply back to him that I lost out and didn't get any further...

I'm still looking for Lowmans, see Lowman Name Study, and Franklin's and Dean's...

Answer 3

My GGGGreatGrandmother was Nancy Franklin Stone (Franklin-8444) b 1794 in Burke Co., North Carolina. Her father was John Stone Jr (Franklin-2614) I am looking for her husbands name and marriage sources

Beverly Stone