The Foley and Supple family’s, female genetic roots go back to a time when northern Europe was still covered in ice and no modern human foot had trodden it.
Research on our genetic roots using modern DNA sequencing has scientifically established that our maternal great great ------ grandmother was born about 45,000 years ago and lived near a place that would become the classical site of Delphi, in what became know as Greece. That’s about 2000 generations ago.
To overcome the clinical coldness of scientific nomenclature, Professor Sykes of Oxford University has given her the name of Ursula. She is one of seven women who have been scientifically identified by their Mitochondrial DNA (mDNA) as the Clan mothers of 95% of all Europeans.
Although all the offspring of Eileen Kelly, née Foley, will all have the Ursula mDNA, it is only going to be passed on by the females in the family. Therefore there is only one immediate family member who has it and that is Eaodine (hope I’ve spelled your name right my dear, my spell-check wants to spell it iodine).
We do have a near relation who also has the Ursula mDNA and that is our first cousin Maureen O’Brien. She will have passed it on to her daughter Anne Marie who will in turn have passed it on to her daughter.
These two young ladies now bear a huge responsibility in that they are the only ones who will be able to pass it on to their female descendents and continue our mDNA line of descent. Amazing considering that by my latest reckoning there are 43 surviving descendents of Eileen and Michael Kelly. Three are deceased and there are six adopted children in the family
It is of course possible, that the sisters and maternal aunts of our maternal grandmother Julia Foley, nee Supple, also had daughters and that they in turn had daughters. Sadly that part of our family history is unknown to me.
Should you wish to know more about Ursula and her descendents and how they found their way into north-western Europe and Ireland you can read Professor Syke's book The Seven Daughters Of Eve or click on;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Sykes
Gwen wants to know why I have left out the other female members of the family. Well, I think it highly unlikely that my two sisters Theresa and Sheila will have any more babies. But who knows what modern science can do. I excluded Kerry, Gail and Tina as I'm reluctant to ask them what their future family plans are. None of the other females in the family carry the Foley/Supple mDNA.
Ursula would have grown up in a society where the men hunted wild animals for protein and fat and where the women scratched around in the vegetation for edible roots, nuts and fruit. These people would become known to historians as hunter gatherers.
She would have lived 35,000 years before the invention of agriculture and the domestication of animals. She also lived in a time before man discovered and used metals. Her people would have used stone tools and would therefore be classified by historians as Stone Age people.
As the climate warmed up and the ice began to retreat, Ursula’s descendents began to migrate. It is believed that the route of migration was along the southern coast of Europe bordering the Mediterranean, eventually arriving in Iberia (modern Spain).
From there they turned north along the western coast of Europe bordering the Atlantic. They eventually arrived about 14,000 years ago in an area of north-west Europe, which as the glaciers and ice covering Europe melted and the sea level rose was to become an archipelago of islands in the north west Atlantic. This archipelago, known geographically as the British Isles from the original Celtic inhabitants, is today politically unacceptable. Political Correctness reigns supreme.
The skeleton remains of one of Ursula’s earliest descendents in the British Isles and now known as Cheddar Man, was found in a cave in Somerset in 1998. It has been carbon dated to be 9,000 years old.
I have searched the data bases for the same mDNA sequences as ours and found only two with an exact match so far. One is in Texas and she is from German descent and the other lives in Belgium. Interestingly Belgium got its name from the Celtic tribe called the Belgae, who occupied parts of Europe that later became known as England and France.
Ursula would have lived at a time when Neanderthals, a member of the genus Homo but not a modern human, would also have roamed in the same areas as Ursula’s bands. Although Neanderthal people eventually fade from history, scientists are not yet ready to declare if they interbred with Ursula’s people or were wiped out by them or otherwise. Political correctness would have us believe that it was our ancestors who wiped them out and by our connection to them our conscience would dictate that we must therefore be guilty of genocide.
Research on our genetic roots using modern DNA sequencing has scientifically established that our maternal great great ------ grandmother was born about 45,000 years ago and lived near a place that would become the classical site of Delphi, in what became know as Greece. That’s about 2000 generations ago.
To overcome the clinical coldness of scientific nomenclature, Professor Sykes of Oxford University has given her the name of Ursula. She is one of seven women who have been scientifically identified by their Mitochondrial DNA (mDNA) as the Clan mothers of 95% of all Europeans.
Although all the offspring of Eileen Kelly, née Foley, will all have the Ursula mDNA, it is only going to be passed on by the females in the family. Therefore there is only one immediate family member who has it and that is Eaodine (hope I’ve spelled your name right my dear, my spell-check wants to spell it iodine).
We do have a near relation who also has the Ursula mDNA and that is our first cousin Maureen O’Brien. She will have passed it on to her daughter Anne Marie who will in turn have passed it on to her daughter.
These two young ladies now bear a huge responsibility in that they are the only ones who will be able to pass it on to their female descendents and continue our mDNA line of descent. Amazing considering that by my latest reckoning there are 43 surviving descendents of Eileen and Michael Kelly. Three are deceased and there are six adopted children in the family
It is of course possible, that the sisters and maternal aunts of our maternal grandmother Julia Foley, nee Supple, also had daughters and that they in turn had daughters. Sadly that part of our family history is unknown to me.
Should you wish to know more about Ursula and her descendents and how they found their way into north-western Europe and Ireland you can read Professor Syke's book The Seven Daughters Of Eve or click on;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Sykes
Gwen wants to know why I have left out the other female members of the family. Well, I think it highly unlikely that my two sisters Theresa and Sheila will have any more babies. But who knows what modern science can do. I excluded Kerry, Gail and Tina as I'm reluctant to ask them what their future family plans are. None of the other females in the family carry the Foley/Supple mDNA.
Ursula would have grown up in a society where the men hunted wild animals for protein and fat and where the women scratched around in the vegetation for edible roots, nuts and fruit. These people would become known to historians as hunter gatherers.
She would have lived 35,000 years before the invention of agriculture and the domestication of animals. She also lived in a time before man discovered and used metals. Her people would have used stone tools and would therefore be classified by historians as Stone Age people.
As the climate warmed up and the ice began to retreat, Ursula’s descendents began to migrate. It is believed that the route of migration was along the southern coast of Europe bordering the Mediterranean, eventually arriving in Iberia (modern Spain).
From there they turned north along the western coast of Europe bordering the Atlantic. They eventually arrived about 14,000 years ago in an area of north-west Europe, which as the glaciers and ice covering Europe melted and the sea level rose was to become an archipelago of islands in the north west Atlantic. This archipelago, known geographically as the British Isles from the original Celtic inhabitants, is today politically unacceptable. Political Correctness reigns supreme.
The skeleton remains of one of Ursula’s earliest descendents in the British Isles and now known as Cheddar Man, was found in a cave in Somerset in 1998. It has been carbon dated to be 9,000 years old.
I have searched the data bases for the same mDNA sequences as ours and found only two with an exact match so far. One is in Texas and she is from German descent and the other lives in Belgium. Interestingly Belgium got its name from the Celtic tribe called the Belgae, who occupied parts of Europe that later became known as England and France.
Ursula would have lived at a time when Neanderthals, a member of the genus Homo but not a modern human, would also have roamed in the same areas as Ursula’s bands. Although Neanderthal people eventually fade from history, scientists are not yet ready to declare if they interbred with Ursula’s people or were wiped out by them or otherwise. Political correctness would have us believe that it was our ancestors who wiped them out and by our connection to them our conscience would dictate that we must therefore be guilty of genocide.
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