High Resolution Y-DNA Match Number 1: Among all the haplotypes emerging from the testing at Family Tree DNA (over 33,000 samples), other than Fauxes, cousins of various degrees (common ancestor 400 years ago) with the surname Faux having a 23 / 25 marker match with FTDNA testing, only one other match has surfaced. FTDNA informed me that I had a 24/25 marker match with a participant in the Payne DNA Surname Project (www.home.earthlink.net/~ppayne1203/) - that the information was not public, but that I had permission to contact the Project Administrator. In discussing the matter with the latter, and in examining the website for this Project, it became clear that my Y-DNA signature is very close to many individuals in "Lineage 1" whose origins are genealogically linked to one John Payne who died in Wymondham, Norfolk in 1408.
The only mismatch with the above participant was on marker DYS390 - he having 24 and I 25 (thus my cousin would also be a high resolution Payne match - the ancestral Faux haplotype is also 24. In the Payne DNA study some participants were tested with FTDNA (25 markers) and others with Ancestry.com (24 markers - the lab being Gelative Genetics). It so happens that I was also tested by Ancestry.com (who measure a different subset of markers than FTDNA). In looking at the first individual noted here from "Lineage 1", there was a 23 of 24 match - the participant having a 15 at DYS437, and I having 14. Paien (Payn) was a baptismal name like Falke. Considering the proximity factors between the Payne and Faux ancestors (the area close to Wymondham, Norfolk) I am prepared to assume that this is not a random match, that we share an ancestor in common, likely from that region.
High Resolution Y-DNA Match Number 2: Another major player in the DNA tsting business is Relative Genetics (www.relativegenetics.com) . Since I had also tested with them they informed me that I had a high resolution 23/24 match with a participant in the Wingfield DNA study (www.freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~leepreston/index.html). Again I had to decide if this was just a random match or one that could be significant. In checking out the above website, and e-mailing the Project Administrator, it became evident that my "match" likely originated at the time of the Norman Conquest where they took as their surname of the town where they resided - Wingfield in Suffolk, 25 miles or so from Wymondham (where the Paynes were living in 1400) and 25 miles from Worlingham in Suffolk (where the Falkes were residing in 1400). This may have been a coincidence, but the geographical proximity made the finding noteworthy.
Tentative Conclusion: The data lead to the conclusion that the Faux ancestral home is East Anglia probably for 6000 or more years - being Aboriginal Briton. Prior to that they likely resided in Iberia, having moved north from the Franco - Cantabrian Ice Age Refugium about 12,000 years ago. If we had a time travel capsule I would not be surprised to have seen the Faux ancestor move through Anatolia, across the Bosphorus into Bulgaria, along the Danube and from there moving westward until they reached the farthest reaches of Europe about 37,000 years ago being part of the Aurignacian Culture (known from archaeological evidence) and carrying the M269 R1b1c mutation along with a majority of the males in the region until historic times - the Basque Region perhaps preserving the Paleolithic DNA patterns to the present day. Thus when the Romans arrived in 43 AD, in all probability the ancestor of the Faux family of Suffolk and Norfolk was part of the Iceni Tribe of Celtic - Brithonic speaking people.
This conlcusion, based on the total evidence available is now known to be entirely wrong and is included here more as a warning to others not to follow that same path full of pitfalls but to rely more on the new research using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers which are not subject to mutation via convergence and divergence and are thus entirely trustworthy indicators of ancient ancestry.
Conclusions Based on Recent SNP Testing:
In the past few months my company, Ethnoancestry, has discovered that the SNP marker M222 on M269 (R1b1c) Y chromosomes which demarcates perfectly the lineage of Ui Neill of the Nine Hostages, the Irish dynasty of Northwestern Ireland. Two other SNP markers have been discovered and investigated. S21 which, considering its known distribution at this point, is very old (perhaps 10,000 years or more) and likely over - wintered in Italy during the last Ice Age, and moved north across the Alps to the North Sea where i it very common in the Netherlands (Fresland) and Saxony in Northern Germany. Based on its distribution and numbers in England it probably is "the" Anglo - Saxon R1b marker. Another SNP marker discovered soon thereafter is S28 which likely over - wintered in the Balkans and is found spread from Greece north to Poland, with a spur into Switzerland and Alpine Germany (the descendants of the Alamanni people from the Baltic Sea), and crossing the Baltic Sea north to Norway. In England to date all those who are S28+ can trace their ancestry to the Danelaw of Eastern England. The haplotypes are all over the map. The only consistency is inconsistency (likely due to the great age of of the marker). There are no Scots or Irish with this marker yet located (but thse will likely show eventually as descendants of the Norse who settled there but left relatively few descendants in the Y chromosome line). For example Falke is from East Anglia, one of the three areas of concerntration of the Danish Vikings. Another is the area of Lincolnshire near the Humber River where as an example a S28+ whose name is Johnson (reflection of a Scandinavian naming practice) resides. Unless there is some comlete reversal of the observations and trends then it seems very clear that the Faux Y chromosome which is S28+ (R1b1c10), arrived in East Anglia with the "Great Army", and was among those who in 879 at the treaty between Alfred of Wessex and Guthrum of the Danelaw decided to turn his sword into a ploughshare and was among those who in 880 AD benefited from the parcelling out of the lands there to the Danes. In other words the evidence is very strong that the Faux Y chromosome is DANISH VIKING and resided in the earlier years of the 9th Century in Fyn, Zealand, Sjaelland, Bornholm or Scana (Southern Sweden), the regions that at that time was Denmark whose armies attacked and eventually settled England in the area south of the Humber River. Earlier in time the ancestor would have been of the Irminones People that spawned many tribes such as the Marocmanni, Suebi and Alamanni. This is why genealogy is is important in that if one were to only know that one was S28+ this would not help except in tracing to the most ancient connections but S28+ could be German or English, but if English then if from the northern regions likely Norse Viking, if from the areas south of York then Danish Viking. History, genealogy and genetics converge to tell the story.
