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Haplogroup; Proposed Origin: Surname - Y-DNA Signature; Meaning and Early Occurrences of Name - Shetland (Beattie), Orkney (Lamb), Scotland (Black); Traditions; Earliest Kown Paternal Ancestor; DNA Matches; Comments
(16401)
R1b1c; Scottish Orkney - Celtic / Pictish; Patronymic (but atypical for Shetland). Those of the HUTCHISON name seemed to be predominantly from Aberdeen, Mainland Scotland, from as early as 1466. There are many of the surname Hutchison in Orkney. It is not known at present when they first arrived. It is likely that by the 1500s one or more of this surname had emigrated to Shetland. Here a Robert ACHESSON appears in a court record of 1563, and another court document notes a Marion HUTCHONDAUGHTER of Papa Stour. The name of this participant may have been patronymic since even in Shetland Hutcheon wasused as a prename. For example, in the 1500s there were brothers Olaf and Hucheon Stevenson, Hutcheon Anderson, Hutcheon Isbister, Hutcheon Halcrow to name but a few; None recorded; Laurence HUTCHISON, born 1776, Whalsay who married Catherine ANDERSON; YSTR Database: 412 / 20,000 - matches widely scattered across Europe; in FTDNA Haplogroup Database there are no exact or one (i.e., 11 / 12) step mutations, making this a very rare signature with no consistency to the matches. In exploring the 10/12 matches they are almost all with those whose surnames suggest a Scottish origin ; A check of the Oxford Ancestor's database indicates that this Y signature is likely rare. Work is underway to determine the origins of the family prior to 1776. Alternative spellings of the name include Echisson and Achisson. Lamb considers that the surname "could be a native family name since the first name HUCHEON was in use at an early date". If that is true then the ancestral tie is more likey, based on the DNA evidence, to be Celtic / Pictish rather than Norse.
(16422)
R1b; Scottish Orkney - (Border Region); A place name - from Irving, Dumfrieshire or Ayrshire, Scotland. A William Irvine recorded in 1369 in Orkney. It is believed that the Orkney and Shetland Irvines originated in Drum, in Aberdeenshire. In Shetland there was one James Irvine, the father-in-law of Gabriel Robson, involved in a mortgage for Brebister Holm in 1569, but by 1577 the surname was widespread throughout various parishes of Shetland, so likely was established in Shetland from early days; A familiar story about 3 brothers coming from Scotland; John IRVINE, born 1818, Whalsay, son of Laurence IRVINE and Jane JOHNSON; There are only 8 matches in the YHRD database, with no pattern, and no Scandanavian matches. A 12/12 match in the FTDNA customer database with a McKenzie. There are four 23/25 matches with names that are not entirely clear as to origin (e.g., Rosenbluth) as well as Wright. A preponderance of matches occur with England. This participant does not match an Irvine from Orkney who is haplogroup I1b (Ysearch #T2UH5) so it is likely that we will find more than one Irvine signature in Shetland; Here is one instance where the data in relation to an R1b signature suggests, very tentatively, a connection with the Border Region of Scotland and England.
(83648)
R1b; Aboriginal Orkney - Celtic; According to Lamb, the surname is first found in the records of Orkney in 1492 with one Hucheon Inkster of Orphir. The surname is a place name relating to two locations, Inkster in Orphir and Innister in Rousay. The name is Norse from Inga and Setter. Beattie indicates that the family first arrived in Burra (where a James Inksetter was in Buray in 1611, Shetland from Orkney, then branches moved to Northmavine, Yell and Unst (where the first surname first appears in the 1790s. The first record on the surname in Shetland comes from 1577 when one Duncane Inksettar in Bressay registered a compaint against Laurence Bruce; Alexander INKSTER born 1770 in Burra, married to Margaret SCOTT, and son of Arthur INKSTER; This participant matches another INKSTER whose ancestors came from the Northern Isles 34/37 but also matches 5 others at this level most of whom appear to have Irish surnames (e.g., McCARTHY, SULLIVAN). There is a 35/37 match with a COFFEE from Ireland. It is very unusual to find 28 matches at the 34 or higher category - and the overwheming number being Irish. Looking at the 12 marker mathces there are 137 matches to those from Ireland and the next highest is England with 23. then Scotland with 17; It will be important to check the haplotype of an INKSTER whose roots are solely in Orkney to determine how ancient this connection is to Ireland. At the moment it is a mystery. The DNA pattern is identical to the "South Irish Cluster" identified by Ken Nordtvedt. It has unique qualities as do the "NW Irish" (Ui Neil) and "Irish Type III" clusters.
(40456)
R1a; Aboriginal Orkney- Norse; According to Lamb, a "vanished place - name Isbister in the tunship of Grimeston, Harray but also from Isbister in Birsay". Beattie indicates that the first recording of the surname in Shetland was in 1586, when "Alexander Isbister being an Orcadian married to a Shetlander. His heir was his brother David Isbister, alias Harray, whose son inherited the alias"; None recorded; Robert ISBISTER, born 1800, West Burrafirth, Aithsting, married to Agnes IRVINE, and son of Henry ISBISTER; Two 12/12 matches in the FTDNA Database to a Howard and two Johnsons. Only exact matches in Haplogroup Database is one each for Iceland and Norway. At the one step mutational level by far the largest number of matches is to the Altai of Siberia; This participant is a close match to the "typical" aboriginal Shetland hayplotype for R1a, despite being from Orkney. It does make sense of course that some of the families who settled Shetland has members who settled in Orkney.
