I am very interested in the Beckett one-name study on Wikitree. I have been working on a separate but potentially overlapping one-name study through the Guild of One-Name Studies, and Family Tree DNA.
I would very much like to understand the origins of the Beckett branches listed on this website. I have lineages for a number of Beckett and Becket branches, which are part of a tree which originates in Ayrshire, Scotland. The main surnames in this tree are Bicket, Bickett, Becket, and Beckett. But I recognize that there are other Becket(t) lineages, probably originating in south-east England.
I have looked at a number of the lineages listed here on this Wikitree Beckett one-name site, but did not find any of them in my own database based on an initial check. But the overlap in locations between people in its lineages, and mine, is quite amazing, in the US. They include Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, in the same time frames. This could be circumstantial, reflecting common migration patterns in the colonies and States at the time. But it is also possible that there are genetic links. I have found that many genealogists for the different branches of the Ayrshire tree have grabbed the wrong ancestors for their trees once traced back to the UK. In the case of Ayrshire, it is particularly understandable because the area was a hotbed of people in our tree, but many/most of them were dissenters, so did not get their BMD events recorded in Church of Scotland records. I have seen similar issues with the few Becketts I have tried to trace which claim to come from England, with one lineage claiming descent from a particular person in Norwich - name misspelled - without any documentary support, whereas there were over a dozen people with the same name - correctly spelled - born elsewhere in England in the same time period who could equally have been the ancestor of that branch.
For our one-name study, we have been focusing our efforts on the Big Y test with Family Tree DNA. All 20 of the separate lineages we have tested have been shown to have a common ancestor within a genealogical timeframe. 19 of them have a common ancestor, with the same three signature SNP mutations, probably born around 1400. The 20th is related, but even further back. My personal view is that it probably represents an NPE in the 1400s among a small closed community in Ayrshire at the time.
I would be particularly interested in hearing about any Y-DNA testing any Becketts might be considering. Family Tree DNA tells me there is just one Beckett tester who has taken their Big Y test who in not in the Bicket DNA project. We need more Beckett Big Y DNA testers to start to unravel the mystery of how the different Beckett branches are related.
You can see more about the work we have been doing on the Ayrshire tree at https://bicket.one-name.net. (It needs an update for the last few branches contacted or tested, but should still give you a good overview.)
David Bicket
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