Re: Elizabeth Fermin married a John Cooley
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In reply to:
Elizabeth Fermin married a John Cooley
B Cooley 11/19/04
Some further information on this.
Elizabeth Firmin married William Cooley. This fact is noted in Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania:
http://ancestraldata.com/ahnentafel/256/elizabethfirmin.htmlhttp://ancestraldata.com/ahnentafel/256/elizabethfirmin.html
Their deaths are recorded in the family bible of their son Jonathan.
Further proof of the false Dutch Cooley claim is found in DNA. You can compare the DNA of several Cooley families here:
http://ancestraldata.com/ahnentafel/256/12markers.plhttp://ancestraldata.com/ahnentafel/256/12markers.pl
The Dutch Cooley line implicates four of these Y-DNA groups. (There would only be one if the connections were true!) The groups are CF01 (Our Cooleys), CF04 (Francis Cooley), CF10 (William and Elizabeth Firmin Cooley) and eight testers of the NY Dutch Cool/Kool line (D.C. on this page.) A descendant of someone else mentioned in the "Dutch Cooleys" is now tested. I think he is probably of CF02. We'll soon find out Again, this test we results would be impossible if all of the stated names were related.
Our John Cooley lived in Virginia and served in the French and Indian War. He was probably married to Sarah Matthews. I suspect they went to NC in the late 1760s. Their eldest was William Matthews Cooley, who was probably the first of the brothers to go to Kentucky.
I'm a VP of the Cooley Family Association of America and a coordinator of the Cooley DNA Project. I've spent literally thousands of hours on this. My webpage for John Cooley is at http://ancestraldata.com/ahnentafel/256/http://ancestraldata.com/ahnentafel/256/ . There's an ongoing discussion of this family at http://ancestraldata.com/listarchive/johncooleylist/http://ancestraldata.com/listarchive/johncooleylist/ and 13 male Cooleys of our clan have DNA tested. I'd love to enlist you guys in our efforts.
I hope to hear from you.
-Michael