I haven't been active on this group, but wanted to update on some Y-DNA results from about a year ago. Myself and a distant cousin Richard Hackley had tested with FTDNA at the highest level (at that time) called Big Y. It analyzes thousands of mutations (SNPs). I then convinced another person, Ethan Hackley, who had tested with FTDNA but only at the Y-111 level, to test Big Y. The results of Richard and myself had matched to the extent that a new branch on the human Y-DNA was established. Ethan's results further refined this establishing that the three of us matched in a block now known as?BY75560 under the DF21 clade. Almost all of the subclades under DF21 are populated with people who claim English/Scottish ancestry. The good news is that Ethan's family tree is not in any way connected with the Virginia Hackleys. His research shows him descending from a different line that arrived about the same time from England, but settled in Connecticut/NY. This would seem to establish R-BY75560 as a Hackley surname haplogroup. Unfortunately, the haplogroup number is just one of a logjam of 38 SNPs (they name it after the first SNP discovered). So we need more male Hackley testers to further refine the haplogroup and perhaps start to put together lineages based on DNA. The take away from this is that Hackleys in Virginia and Connecticut who immigrated separately in the 1600s were most likely related 12-15 generations back. This would put all Hackleys in the US in the same phylogenetic group, name spellings notwithstanding. If Hockley surnamed males do not match with this haplogroup, then they are most certainly from a different male line. The similarity in name spelling does not mean they are related. There are other similar surnames as well, such as Ackley and Oakley.
Darrel Hockley