Pedigree as suggested by DNA, documents and my
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DNA testing proves my ancestors were native Irish and the DNA of ancient remains found in Co Fermanagh, Sligo and Clare prove were were in Ireland 4200 years ago and before that our ancestors live somewhere in and around Yorkshire England. More recent DNA matches. records, and family tradition stories handed down for many generations suggest that my ancestors in more recent times were Irish Monarchs and Kings, that we are the O'Kelley of Bregia located around the Hill of Tara in Ireland. We did not descend from the Hy-many O'Kelleys as Alethea Jane Macon suggested in her book, we must go back 4500 years to find the grandfather we share with the O'Kellys of Hy-Many and that was 3500 years before the O'Kelley and later O'Kelly surnames came into use. Thomas Dean O'Kelley and Rev James O'Kelly may have been brothers . The possibility that Rev James O'Kelly and Thomas Dean O'Kelley were brothers is supported by "Lives of Christian ministers: over two hundred memoirs" by Peter Jeferson Kernolde P 1909 where the author claims that Rev James O'Kelly was the ancestor of Thomas Dean O'Kelley's sons Rev James O'Kelley, Rev John O'Kelley and grandson Rev Francis Dean O'Kelley but I can find no proof, they never live close to each other and Rev James O'Kelly lived in Mecklenburg Co VA at the time Charles and Francis lived there and they both appear in documents at Elon University proving Charles and Francis knew Rev James O'Kelly but Thomas does not appear so how Rev James O'Kelly is related is still not yet know. If Charles actually named his first born son William as Macon claimed then combined with US Census documents and naming traditions that makes it more likely that the father of Charles Dean O'Kelley was William Dennis O'Kelley perhaps the older brother of Rev James O'Kelly but it should be noted that Francis named his first born son James and the descendents of Francis feel certain the James O'Kelley is the name of the man who married Elizabeth Dean and was the father of Charles and Francis. If this is true then DNA proves the James O'Kelley that Dr Thomas K O'Kelley claimed in his family pedigree was the father of Benjamin is a different man than the one who married Elizabeth Dean.
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It is from "A Patchwork of Memories, a Knowles/O’Kelley genealogy" a 1976 book published by Judith Ries a descendent of Dr Thomas K O'Kelley that we learn that James O'Kelley his ancestor was a minister likely born around 1710. It is claimed in the Dr Thomas K O'Kelley Family Pedigree dated in the early 1900s that James O'Kelley married (Nancy) Anna Dean about 1727 and I reference her as Nancy because Anna was a nickname for Nancy and Nancy is the name that appears with some grandchildren. Nancy Dean the monther of Benjamin was likely the daughter or sister of a Thomas Dean and there are two, one Thomas Dean is found in the records living on the James River near the Huguenot settlements and the other in Prince George Co where the Crowders lived. In Lunenburg County, VA i the 1750s is found a Charles Dean a sizeable land owner who was likely the brother of Elizabeth Dean and the reason she named my 4th great grandfather Charles Dean O'Kelley. When the eastern half of Lunenburg was named Mecklenburg Co, Charles Dean O'Kelley and Francis O'Kelley are found living in Mecklenburg County as young men during the Revolutionary War. There is no proof that Thomas Dean was the name of Elizabeth Dean's father, Thomas Dean could have been the name of her grandfather and Charles or Francis Dean could have been the name of her father.
In 1936
John Daniel McCurry
a descendent of Rev
James O'Kelly created a family pedigree chart which gives the names of
3 of his brothers, William D,
Thomas D and John
but I am certain that John Daniel McCurry's pedigree isn't
complete, that many of Rev James's siblings are missing and
until a traceable male descendent of Rev
James O'Kelly does a Y-DNA test we have no method to know
how accurate McCurry's chart might be. John Daniel McCurry gives Rev James as born in Mecklenburg Virginia but I don't think that can be supported.
DNA Results The Y-DNA test of male descendents of Thomas Dean, Charles Dean and Benjamin all indicate these three men were cousins and not brothers. Because the Irish reused forenames even in the same families it is possible that all three men had brothers by these names and that is how these three men became confused as brothers and not cousins and the grandfather they share was likely born between 1600 and 1650. Thomas Dean O'Kelley was said to have been born about 1750, his descendent Samuel Joseph O'Kelley tested 111 markers Y-DNA his results returned Feb 13, 2017. A second descendent, Ronnie O'Kelley also tested. Charles Dean O'Kelley ** said to have been born about 1756, this is my 4th great grandfather and I first tested 37 markers in 2010 then upgraded the test to 111 markers Y-DNA and completed a Big Y test. Charles's father's name was likely Lt William Dennis O'Kelley or possibly a James O'Kelley who was a different man than the James O'Kelley who was the faither of Benjamin and it seems certain Charles's mother was Elizabeth Dean as Charles named his first born daughter Elizabeth Dean O'Kelley and because she went by Betsy I believe that indicates that Elizabeth Dean lived with Charles and Mary and their daughter was called Betsy as to not cause confusion. There are reasons to believe that Charles father may have died in the Revolutionary War and that his mother was alive and moved with the family to Georgia in the early 1800s. Benjamin O'Kelley said to have been born about 1758, his descendent James Thomas O'Kelley tested 111 markers Y-DNA and his results returned Aug 11, 2022. His results indicate that Benjamin was a 7th to 8th cousin to Thomas Dean and 4th or 5th to Charles Dean. Rev James O'Kelly (Family Pedigree of Rev James O'Kelly) founder of the Christian Church has long been a mystery. In the records we find that he has many contacts with Charles and Francis but without a DNA test of one of his male O'Kelley descendents I can not confirm that he was a relative.
Records Francis O'Kelley. Married Delilah Crowder, her ancestor George Crowder was one of the Founding families of America and shared a great grandfather with Thomas Jefferson. Her old Sister Mary married Charles Dean O'Kelley and Charles Dean and Francis O'Kelley lived on land just south of Comer Georgia that Francis received in the Georgia Land Lottery an indicator that Francis and Charles Dean were brothers. John O'Kelley proven by Rev James O'Kelly Pedigree and Mecklenburg Marriage record with Charles Kelley as second. I believe he may have been the younger brother of Charles Dean and Francis as John married Frances, the younger sister of Mary Crowder who married Charles Dean and Delilah Crowder who married Francis. Elizabeth O'Kelley - proven by 1860 Census likely a youger sister of Charles Dean and Francis and named after their mother Elizabeth Dean. Nancy O'Kelley - I believe Nancy named her son James O'Kelley Daniel Tucker after her father and her father-in-law proven by 1860 Census Daniel Tucker's ancestor was one of the Founding families of America. Nancy is likely the younger sister of Charles Dean and Francis and like named after her great grandmother Annie Dean. Annie is a nickname for Nancy.
Based upon DNA and Records I believe: Lt William Dennis O'Kelley or James O'Kelley (note - if Elizabeth Dean's husband was James O'Kelley DNA proves that he would be a different James than the father of Benjamin) married Elizabeth Dean and they had the following children: I am certain there were other children who died or became lost in time. |
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Source: Rick O'Kelley **Source for Dean being the middle name of Charles O'Kelley is the Whiteheaddna.com website, I have found no proof nor can the Webmaster tell me his source. |
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