Charles Harvey

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My Harvey Family History

By Charles William Harvey, My Y- DNA haplogroup is R- M269. See below what this means.

I share a paternal-line ancestor with Niall of the Nine Hostages.

R-M269 common ancestor 10,000 years ago

The Uí Néill Dynasty

The spread of haplogroup R-M269 in northern Ireland and Scotland was likely aided by men like Niall of the Nine Hostages. Perhaps more myth than man, Niall of the Nine Hostages is said to have been a King of Tara in northwestern Ireland in the late 4th century C.E. His name comes from a tale of nine hostages that he held from the regions he ruled over. Though the legendary stories of his life may have been invented hundreds of years after he died, genetic evidence suggests that the Uí Néill dynasty, whose name means "descendants of Niall," did in fact trace back to just one man who bore a branch of haplogroup R-M269.

The Uí Néill ruled to various degrees as kings of Ireland from the 7th to the 11th century C.E. In the highly patriarchal society of medieval Ireland, their status allowed them to have outsized numbers of children and spread their paternal lineage each generation. In fact, researchers have estimated that between 2 and 3 million men with roots in north-west Ireland are paternal-line descendants of Niall.

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Harvey Name Meaning.

English and Scottish: from the Breton personal name Aeruiu or Haerviu, composed of the elements haer ‘battle’, ‘carnage’ + vy ‘worthy’, which was brought to England by Breton followers of William the Conqueror, for the most part in the Gallicized form Hervé. (The change from -er- to -ar- was a normal development in Middle English and Old French.) Reaney believes that the surname is also occasionally from a Norman personal name, Old German Herewig, composed of the Germanic elements hari, heri ‘army’ + wig ‘war’.Irish: mainly of English origin, in Ulster and County Wexford, but sometimes a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAirmheadhaigh ‘descendant of Airmheadhach’, a personal name probably meaning ‘esteemed’. It seems to be a derivative of Airmheadh, the name borne by a mythological physician.Irish (County Fermanagh): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchaidh ‘descendant of Earchadh’, a personal name of uncertain origin. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press.

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Origin and Migrations of Haplogroup R-M269

My paternal line stems from a branch of R-M343 called R-M269, one of the most prolific paternal lineages across western Eurasia. R-M269 arose roughly 10,000 years ago, as the people of the Fertile Crescent domesticated plants and animals for the first time. Around 8,000 years ago, the first farmers and herders began to push east into Central Asia and north into the Caucasus Mountains. Some of them eventually reached the steppes above the Black and Caspian Seas. There, they lived as pastoral nomads, herding cattle and sheep across the grasslands, while their neighbors to the south developed yet another crucial technology in human history: bronze smelting. As bronze tools and weaponry spread north, a new steppe culture called the Yamnaya was born.

Around 5,000 years ago, perhaps triggered by a cold spell that made it difficult to feed their herds, Yamnaya men spilled east across Siberia and down into Central Asia. To the west, they pushed down into the Balkans and to central Europe, where they sought new pastures for their herds and metal deposits to support burgeoning Bronze Age commerce. Over time, their descendants spread from central Europe to the Atlantic coast, establishing new trade routes and an unprecedented level of cultural contact and exchange in western Europe.

The men from the steppes also outcompeted the local men as they went; their success is demonstrated in the overwhelming dominance of the R-M269 lineage in Europe. Over 80% of men in Ireland and Wales carry the haplogroup, as do over 60% of men along the Atlantic Coast from Spain to France. The frequency of R-M269 gradually decreases to the east, falling to about 30% in Germany, 20% in Poland, and 10-15% in Greece and Turkey. The haplogroup connects all these men to still others in the Iranian Plateau and Central Asia, where between 5 and 10% of men also bear the lineage.

Generation No. 1

1. Charles William8 Harvey (John Thomas7, George Washington6, John Thomas "General"5, Alexander B. "Ellick"4, Elijah Henry3, William2, William1)

He married (1) Neva Elnora Layton January 18, 1959 in Jerusalem Christian Church, Fulton Co., PA, by Rev. Ray Mallow.

She was born August 15, 1937 in Amaranth, Fulton Co., PA, and died March 24, 2009 in at Home, Hagerstown, Washington Co., MD.

He married (2) Janice Irene Orr Ryan June 19, 2010 in Hagerstown, MD, daughter of Orr and Swaim.

Notes for Charles William Harvey:

Charles William " Bud " Harvey

Bud and Neva lived in Rockville, MD, 1959 to 1961, Dickerson MD, 1961to 1965,

Germantown, Montgomery Co., Maryland 1965 to 1989. Moved to Boonsboro, Md. 1989, and in Hagerstown, Maryland as of Sept. 2000.

Janice ( My new wife ) and I also live in Hagerstown, MD as of Sept., 2011.

More About Charles William Harvey: Education: 9th grade

Fact 1: Bet. 1944 - 1947, School- Front Royal, VA

Fact 2: Bet. 1947 - 1950, School- Elk Garden, WV

Fact 3: Bet. 1950 - 1951, School- Karmer Jr. High, SE Washington, DC

Fact 4: Bet. 1951 - 1952, School- Levittown, Long Island, NY

Fact 5: Bet. 1952 - 1953, School- Granby High, Norfolk, VA

Fact 6: Bet. 1953 - 1954, School- Kempville High, Norfolk, VA

Fact 7: Bet. 1954 - 1956, School- Princess Ann High, Norfolk, VA

Fact 8: Bet. 1956 - 1957, William & Mary Technical Institute, Norfolk, VA

Occupation #1: Bet. 1957 - 1961, Auto Mechanic, Rockville Ford Motor Co., Rockville, Montgomery Co., MD

Occupation #2: Bet. 1961 - 1986, Auto Mechanic, Montgomery County Board of Education, Rockville, Md., retired 1986 at the age of 48.

Retirement: 1986, As Automotive repair Supervisor, MCPS Division of Transportation, Clarksburg, MD

Sources

• First-hand information. Entered by Charles Harvey at registration.

Harvey-2679

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/212627223/charles-william-harvey