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

A few 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.

France (to Nebraska and Idaho)

• Earliest Known Ancestor: Louis Bonaparte Rolland (1851-1924) was born in Pennsylvania, while his parents were born in France. He married Adelia Kappers in Lancaster County, Nebraska and died in Gem County, Idaho.
• 10 descendants in WikiTree (as of 31 Dec 2024)
• Descendant locations: Idaho (Gem, Washington), Oregon (Linn)

Henrico County, Virginia

• Earliest Known Ancestor: Zachariah Rowland (1739-1802) was born in Norfolk County, Virginia and died in Henrico County, Virginia. He married Sarah Arnold.
• 79 descendants in WikiTree (as of 31 Dec 2024)
• Descendant locations: Alabama (Autauga, Bullock, Dallas, Jefferson, Montgomery), Georgia (Richmond), Louisiana (Franklin, Ouachita, Winn), South Carolina (Laurens)

Manchester to Yonkers

• 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.
• 42 descendants in WikiTree (as of 31 Dec 2024).
• Descendant Locations: England (Lancashire), New York (Westchester)

Macon County, Missouri

• Earliest Known Ancestors: Younger W Rowland (1770-b1850) was born in Virginia and died in Macon County, Missouri has 140 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 234 descendants in WikiTree, is probably his brother.
• 374 descendants in WikiTree (as of 31 Dec 2024).
• Descendant Locations: California (Sonoma), Idaho (Ada), Illinois (Williamson), Kansas (Republic), Montana (Big Horn), Missouri (Grundy, Jasper, Macon, Randolph), Texas (Travis)

McMinn County, Tennessee

• 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.
• 820 descendants in WikiTree (as of 31 Dec 2024).
• Descendant Locations: North Carolina (Ashe, Madison), South Carolina (Spartanburg), Tennessee (Hamilton, Knox, McMinn), Texas (Bosque, Hardeman), Virginia (Smyth)

McNairy County, Tennessee

• 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.
• 340 descendants in WikiTree (as of 31 Dec 2024).
• Descendant Locations: California (Tulare), Kansas (Kingman), Missouri (Dallas, Greene, Polk), Oklahoma (Muskogee, Sadie Sequoyah), Tennessee (Chester, Madison, McNairy)

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.

If you are a Rowland or have a Rowland in your family tree, then you need to subscribe to the Rowland Genealogy Newsletter.