| Surnames N to R - Page 1: Shetland Y-DNA Surname Project |
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| NICHOLSON 13 23 14 11 11 14 12 12 14 13 13 29 18 09 10 11 11 26 15 20 29 15 15 16 17 (21693) R1b; Aboriginal Shetland - (Germanic / Scandinavian); Patronymic; None reported; William Laurence NICOLSON, born 1809, Bayanne, Sellafirth, North Yell, son of Olla NICOLSON and Ann IRVINE; In the YHRD there are 265 matches making this a very frequently occuring haplotype. As would be expected the matches are scattered from Portugal to Sweden, however the participant matches 3 of 69 Greenland Inuit (mixed). There are, however, only 5 matches at the 12/12 level with individuals in the FTDNA customer database. Refering to the Haplogroup Database confirms that this is a rare signature, and at the 11/12 level the only match is with someone from Italy (Sicily). At the two step mutational level there is a scattering of matches with the largely countries including Germany, Denmark and Sweden, and, significantly, none from Portugal or Spain as one sees in Celtic signatures. In addition, at the 3 step level there are matches in Norway and again a Greenland Inuit (European admixture). One high resolution match - 33/37 with LAURENSON (19078); Since it is expected that the Inuit signatures had their origin in Norway, it would appear that the weight of evidence suggests that this participant has one of the rare Norse signatures that can be attributed to Scandanavia. The match with LAURENSON is unlikely to be random and needs to be explored. |
| NISBET 13 24 14 11 11 13 12 12 12 14 13 31 (Awaiting markers) (21829) R1b; Scottish Mainland - Celtic / Pictish; Place name from the old barony of Nesbit in the parish of Edrom, Berwickshire. Name not found in Orkney. According to Beattie, "Mans Nisbet and Rollf Nesbet were in Yell in 1538. The name has always been closely associated with the islands of Yell and Unst"; None recorded; Peter NISBET, born 1772, Burraness, North Yell, married to Marion ANDERSON, and son of Peter NISBET; In the YHRD there are only 3 matches, none diagnostic. In the FTDNA customer database there is one match with an Adams. In the Haplogroup Database there are close matches from Portugal to Poland as is typical of Celtic haplotypes; Although rare this signature has a match profile that is best interpreted as native Scottish or Briton. |
| NICOLSON 12 23 15 10 13 15 11 14 11 12 11 28 16 08 09 08 11 23 16 20 28 12 15 15 15 (22359) I1a; Aboriginal Shetland - Norse: European; Patronymic; None reported; Robert NICOLSON, born mid 1700s, Walls, son of Nicol ROBERTSON; There is only one match in the FTDNA customer database and it is 24/25 with SMITH (33398) . In the Haplogroup Database the vast majority of matches are with Norway, and particularly Iceland, as well as the Faroe Islands. In the FTDNA REO Database there is an and unidentified individual whose ancestor is from Denmark who the participant matches 24/25 ; This is a classic Norse signature. The high resolution match with SMITH suggests an ancestor in common at some point in the past. Hopefully this matter can be explored with genealogical record sources. |