There's something very wrong with the traditional genealogy on this
family. I believe I mentioned in the first post on this topic that the
line is said to have been descended from Ensign Benjamin, but the testers
DNA is a closer match to ours than his.
The lineage looks good going back to John W, but there may be another
explanation from that point. There was a another Cooley family in Ogle
county, the patriarch having come from Ireland. He had a son John W
Cooley, although he was considerably older than Ernest's father. There was
also another Cooley family in Bradford county PA, one that appears to have
descended from Daniell Cooley of Maryland, which also does not match ours.
Ernest had several brothers. I think the tester should try to find some
DNA back-up to make sure things are good to that point.
You've done good, Mary. But I think there's a hornet's nest there. Chances
are good that Ernest was related to the James of Jack county, but the
genealogy is going elsewhere--and we already know the genealogy to be bad!
I've created a page for this line at
http://ancestraldata.com/ahnentafel/256/lineages/ernest-desc.html
-Michael
> I don't know if this is significant or not - but I found Rufus M Cooley on
> the 1850 & 1860 census in Ogle Co., IL living next door to John & Eliza
> Cooley. But I found another Rufus Cooley in 1860 in New Hudson, Allegany
> Co., NY enumerated with Daniel & Roxanna Cooley family. These are the
> census information:
>
> 1860 United States Federal Census
> Name: Rufus Cooley Cooley
> Age in 1860: 75
> Birth Year: abt 1785
> Birthplace: Massachusetts
> Home in 1860: New Hudson, Allegany, New York
> Gender: Male
> Post Office: New Hudson
> Value of real estate: View image
> Household Members: Name Age
> Daniel Cooley 38
> Roxanna Cooley 38
> Melville D Cooley 16
> Adelia O Cooley 14
> Ruel A Cooley 7
> Oscar E Cooley 3
> Rufus Cooley Cooley 75
>
> This is strange - found in the same book as the other births in
> Sunderland,
> Mass but on a different page:
> Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, 1620-1988
> Sunderland > Births, Marriages and Death
> Page (Unreadable), C names:
> ---Rufus Son to Rufus Montague Cooley Son to Martin and Irena Cooley was
> born June 29th A D 1784 [this is the birthdate given for Rufus Montague
> Cooley in the previous lists that I sent]
>
> This is the Rufus M Cooley who is listed next door to John & Eliza Cooley
> in
> both 1850 & 1860 in Ogle Co., IL:
>
> 1850 United States Federal Census
> Name: Rufus M Cooley
> Age: 66
> Birth Year: abt 1784
> Birthplace: Massachusetts
> Home in 1850: Eagle, Ogle, Illinois
> Gender: Male
> Family Number: 6
> Household Members: Name Age
> Rufus M Cooley 66
> Mary Cooley 40
> Joseph Cooley 7
>
> 1860 United States Federal Census
> Name: R M Cooly
> [R M Cooley]
> Age in 1860: 76
> Birth Year: abt 1784
> Birthplace: Massachusetts
> Home in 1860: Flagg, Ogle, Illinois
> Gender: Male
> Post Office: Lane
> Value of real estate: View image
> Household Members: Name Age
> R M Cooly 76
> Mary Cooly 66
> Joseph Cooly 16
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Mary Cooley
>
> --
> <a href="http://newsummer.com/distlist">distlist 0.9</a>
> See http://ancestraldata.com/listarchive/johncooleylist/ for list
> information.
>
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Second VP, the Cooley Family Association of America
President, the Genealogy Club of Humboldt State University
Administrator, the Eldridge Family DNA Project
Administrator, the Ashenhurst Family DNA Project (in the works)
Administrator, the alt-McDowell DNA Project
Co-Administrator, the Cooley Family DNA Project
Instructor (upcoming this fall), "Genealogy and Family History" at
the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), through HSU
Received on Wed Aug 08 2012 - 12:00:00 MDT