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Based on y-DNA results, we have
discovered that Elias Kaighn (9153) is not in fact genetically related to the
rest of the Kaighin family. After some
exhaustive research, we have discovered that Elias was not born a Kaighn, but
more likely was born with the surname Cain or a phonetic equivalent. Due to his proximity to other actual
Kaighns in Gloucester County, New Jersey and also likely due to his own
illiteracy, we theorize that record keepers began spelling it as Kaighn and
by the time literacy stuck in his children's generation, the spelling was
settled. Other researchers have in the
past attributed Elias parents as John Kaighn and Sarah McMullen, but this is
not the case. So most members of the
NJ Kaighn Branch are not genetically Kaighns, they are most likely Irish
Cains. We have also found that there
are three male lines of decent alive today who claim Elias Kaighn as an
ancestor. We have Y-DNA tested three
of these lines and have discovered that there are three separate and unique
Y-DNA haplotypes (signatures), so two of these lines comes from another
source and are therefore not actually descended from Elias. These are represented above as orange,
purple and green. Since descendants of
Elias' sons William and James match each other, we can conclude that Elias'
y-DNA haplotype matches that of Ray, David, William and Jim. |
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