New Big Y results; The Foster/Forrester ...........Wallace connection
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Hi All,
After hanging out with the?R-FGC910 branches for the last four years, through my Gleave surname and very small surname project, I decided to test my mother's paternal line and luckily managed to convince one of my male cousins to take the Big Y.
The Foster's originate from Western Scotland and moved to Liverpool, in around 1850. My Grandad was proud of his Scottish heritage (as well as Everton while we support Liverpool!!) and I even have an old Robert Burns song book in the Forrester/Foster green colours, which has been handed down through the family.
I have managed to trace the Foster's back to Greenock in Scotland but have a brick wall with my 3rd Great Grandfather as I cannot locate his birth certificate anywhere. The objective of the test was partly to see if I could break through this wall, as well as establish the origins of the Fosters.
The results have now come back and I have another line which is in the R1b-U106 brotherhood although this time in a completely different branch under R-DF98. The terminal Haplogroup is R-194282 and there is not one single Foster/Forrester match at any level of testing!! Six out of nine of the Big Y matches have a Wallace surname (although they are downstream of R-194282) while the STR testing results at 111 and 67 are also dominated by Wallaces.
Should we now change the Foster/Forrester colours on the Burns book with Wallace? Could this be a potential surname switch, a not the parent expected or some other explanation? I read Ian's excellent analysis on the King's cluster which provided great insight into this branch of the tree.?
If anyone can recommend any further reading on ancestry in Western Scotland, that would also be greatly received.
Many thanks and Best,
Mike Gleave
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