Fry Name Study

Profile managers: Kelly Moores [send private message] and One Name Studies WikiTree [send private message]

How to Join

1. This is an open public project there are no requirements to join. Anyone can view all of the information in this project but only the Trusted List can edit it.
2. One Name Studies project page - This is a link to the general information page about how Wikitree One Name Study projects work.
3. Add one_name_studies to your list of followed tags. That way you will see any general discussions about One Name Studies in G2G.
4. Add Fry to your list of followed tags. That way you will see all Fry discussions in G2G
5. Please contact the project leader Kelly Moores or post a comment at the foot of the page. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks!

Goals

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about one surname and the variants of that name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.

Fry One-Name-Study Sticker

It is not necessary to put the Fry One Name Study sticker on every Fry profile. The sticker is basically a means of advertising / promoting the Fry Name Study and guiding others to it via an embedded link. In the Fry study we will use these stickers as follows:

• On Fry patriarchs whose descendants have participated in the Frey-Fry-Frye-Vry Project at Family Tree DNA.
• On profiles of the Wikitree Genealogists actively working on the Fry surname
• On Fry profiles being worked as part of their study, such as their direct ancestral Fry line
• On Fry profiles that are end-of-line heads of families, or "brick walls", etc.
• On the profiles of all "Notable" Fry's

Adding this to any profile:

{{One Name Study|name=Fry}}

Will result in the sticker here:

This profile is part of the Fry Name Study.

Y-DNA Lineages

Participants in the Frey-Fry-Frye-Vry Project at Family Tree DNA have allowed us to begin to sort out one genetically distinct Fry line from another.

This is how it stands so far.

• Haplogroup E - Lineage I - descendants of Johann Valentine Frey
• Haplogroup I - Linage I - descendants of Christian Frey, b. 14 Sept.1833, Württemberg
• Haplogroup I - Lineage IV - descendants of Christoph Frey b. 1721, Hornbach, Zweibrucken, Germany, d. 30 Jul 1785, Warwick, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, m. Anna Margaretha Beyer
• Haplogroup R - Lineage II - descendants of Heinrich Frey & Anna Catherine Levering
• Haplogroup R - Lineage IV - descendants of Johannes & Johaneva Frey & Henry Fry Sr. of Abbotts Creek
• Haplogroup R - Lineage IX - descendants of Nicholas Frye

Geographical Groupings

There are many lines of Frey (Fry,etc) throughout the world. Some have been well researched, others are less carefully defined. The DNA lineages are technically only as good as the genealogical research informing the ancestry links, and so it will advance several projects at once to try to clarify the various lines.

Pennsylvania

The first german immigrant in Pennsylvania is said to have been Heinrich Frey, who emigrated to New York around 1675 and settled in Philadelphia around 1680, and about whom much is known. There are quite a number of other Fry/Frey immigrants to Pennsylvania in the late 17th and throughout the 18th century.

Known Arrivals

Lehigh Co.

Lehigh County was formed out of Northampton County on 6 March, 1812 (which was itself formed from Bucks County 14 October, 1751).^[1]

• Heidelberg Township early Frey residents: Henry Frey was granted a land warrant (64 Acres) on Jan 26 1749, John Frey (25 acres) and Jacob Frey (33 Acres) both were granted land warrants on May 18, 1768.
• Lynn Township early Frey residents: A record on March 17,1762 deals with the orphaned children of "Conrad Fry, late of Lynn Township. Who died leaving a widow Hester, and the following named children: Jacob, Sarah, Esther, Moses, Aaron, Hannah, Joshua"