DNA Group Z – Groups of 1

Xref Status Rowland DNA Groups of 1

The “Groups of 1” are Rowland Y-DNA test-takers who have not been matched with any other test-takers. Once they get a match with another member of the Rowland Project, they will be “grouped with each other” and assigned their own unique group identification.

Earliest Known Ancestors – Descendant Trees

Four of these 1-person groups have large descendant trees as identified in the right-hand column above. See Rowland DNA Group Untested for other potential groups and trees.

McMinn County, Tennessee

• 690 descendants in WikiTree (as of 10 Jan 2024).
• Earliest Known Ancestor: Andrew Roland (c1770-a1850) was born in Maryland and lived in Ashe County North Carolina before settling in McMinn County, Tennessee. He married Maria Margaret Hartzel.
• Descendant Locations: North Carolina (Ashe, Madison), South Carolina (Spartanburg), Tennessee (Hamilton, Knox, McMinn), Texas (Bosque, Hardeman), Virginia (Smyth)

Macon County, Missouri

• 269 descendants in WikiTree (as of 10 Jan 2024).
• Earliest Known Ancestors: Younger W Rowland (1770-b1850) was born in Virginia and died in Macon County, Missouri has 139 descendants in WikiTRee. He married Rachel Hensley. One of his descendants assimilated into the Cheyenne Tribe at Tongue River, Montana. John Younger Rowland (1776-1839), with 130 descendants in WikiTree, is probably his brother.
• Descendant Locations: California (Sonoma), Idaho (Ada), Illinois (Williamson), Kansas (Republic), Montana (Big Horn), Missouri (Grundy, Jasper, Macon, Randolph), Texas (Travis)

McNairy County, Tennessee

• 198 descendants in WikiTree (as of 10 Jan 2024).
• Earliest Known Ancestor: William Rowland (1797-c1840) was born in North Carolina (possibly Randolph County) and settled in McNairy County, Tennessee before the 1840 census. He married Frances Rodgers.
• Descendant Locations: California (Tulare), Kansas (Kingman), Missouri (Dallas, Greene, Polk), Oklahoma (Muskogee, Sadie Sequoyah), Tennessee (Chester, Madison, McNairy)

Manchester to Yonkers

• 42 descendants in WikiTree (as of 31 Dec 2023).
• Earliest Known Ancestor: John Rowland Sr (1827-1891) was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England, and died in Yonkers, Westchester, New York. He married Mary Hampson.
• Descendant Locations: England (Lancashire), New York (Westchester)

Group Z versus Untested

The DNA Untested page lists more than 20 known Rowland lines with Descendant Trees documented in WikiTree. To the best of our knowledge, none of the thousands of Rowland male descendants in any of these trees has taken a Y-DNA test.

The approximately 30 Y-DNA kits listed on this page represent Rowland males who have taken a Y-DNA. However, they do not have any Y-DNA matches with any other members of the Rowland Project. Each is a potential new Rowland Y DNA Group, although since they do not have any matches, each one is a Group of 1.

A small subset of these have provided enough information to allow us to construct a descendant tree for their Group of 1. This helps identify potential branches where a living male Rowland could take a Y-DNA test, match up, and convert the Group of 1 into a full-fledged Rowland Y-DNA Group.

At this time, we have no reason to believe that any of the Y-DNA testers above belong to any of the DNA Untested descendants trees. We would love to be proven wrong, so if you know of any that can be linked, then please let us know.

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