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Francis and France Lines

France lines

Christian France of Muskingum, OH, USA

Francis Lines

Alfred Francis of New York State, USA

This R1A individual was born around 1813 in New York state. This line carries a 6-marker haplotype that is characteristic of Ashkenazi Jews, according to research by Ellen Levy-Coffman (www.jogg.info/11/coffman.htm). This line, along with the other R1A line, about whom we have no information, are the only two that seem to have this Ashkenazi signature, and are exceptions to the generally British nature of the line. Of course, either line might well have passed through the United Kingdom en route to the United States.

Charles Francis of Louth, Lincolnshire, UK

This I1-AS individual was born around 1850 in Louth, Lincolnshire, U.K.

Evan Francis, William Francis of Kentucky

This R1b1b2 line has five matching members in the project, which makes it tied for the largest group of related individuals in the project, even leaving out a second group of R1b individuals who appear to be slightly more distantly related. Unfortunately, little information has been provided to the project so far. One member claims descent from Evan Francis, who died in Bourbon County, KY after 1820. Another claims descent from William Francis, who was born in Pennsylvania and died in Boone County, KY in 1828. DNA testing has shown that Evan and William were somehow related, but it is not clear how at this time.

George Francis of Kent County, England

This R1b1b2 line descends from an individual born in 1810 in Kent County, England. The family is believed to be descended from an individual with a different surname and a 12/12 match with an individual named Hunt has been discovered.

Henry Francis of Frederick County, MD, USA

Henry Francis was born around 1735. After the apparent death of his father, he, his mother and two brothers were taken in by a Dr. Orlando Griffith. When his mother, Mary Francis died around 1749, the boys were bound to the doctor and stayed with them until their 21st birthdays. Henry served in the Virginia Militia in the 1750s as a private. Later, when the war broke out, he re-joined, fought in many battles and was promoted to captain. He died at the Battle of Shallow Ford in 1780.

Henry Francis of Warwick County, VA, USA

This R1b1b2 line is descended from Henry Francis, born circ 1805 in Warwick or York County, Virginia. The earliest found documentation of Henry was his 1822 Surry County, Virginia marriage to Polly Taylor. He first appeared in the census as Head of Household in Surry County, Virginia in 1830. Henry Francis died without a will in 1851 in the Southwark Parish of Surry County. It is believed his father was John or Thomas Francis, Revolutionary War pensioners of Virginia.

John Francis of Cornwall, UK (1)

The earliest known descendant of one of the members of one of the project's largest groups. He is related to Micajah Francis and John Francis of Campbell County, VA, but not, apparently, to the other John Francis of Cornwall. Click here for more information.

John Francis(2) & Ann Robert of Cornwall, UK

This R1b1b2a line descends from John, who was was born about 1811. He married Ann in 1837 and six of their eight children immigrated from the Channel Islands to New York City in 1853. One of them, Robert, was born in Guernsey, the Channel Islands.

John Francis of Campbell County, Virginia

This R1b1b2 line goes back to John Francis of Campbell City, Virginia and died in 1792. His date of birth is controversial. He is related to Micajah Francis, Thomas Francis of England, and the first John Francis of Cornwell. Click here for more information.

Leon Albert Francis of London

This R1b1b2 line descends from Leon Francis, born in 1846, in Lambeth, London, England. He was said to be the son of a French surgeon traveling on a French ship, but was raised by the Green family, which seems to have been his mother's. He founded a successful London company of Quantity Surveyors and died in 1928.

Micajah Francis

Earliest known descendant of one member of one of the largest R1b lines, Micajah Francis was born in Halifax, VA, some time around 1790 and died before 1849. Click here for more information.

Philip Francis - Wales to Pennsylvania

This R1b1b2 line is descended from Philip Francis, who was born in 1853 in Danville, Montour County, PA, USA. His parents were Welsh immigrants. His father was descended from Lewis Thomas, who was born about 1650, in Glamorgan, Wales (probably St. Fagans) and died Sept 1690 in S. Fagans. He hade one known child, Francis THOMAS who also used the name, Francis LEWIS. Francis THOMAS/LEWIS was born about 1675 possibly in St. George-super-Ely, Glamorgan, Wales. He had at least four sons and three daughters. The three daughters adopted the LEWIS surname. One son, Francis, adopted the THOMAS surname. Another son, William adopted the FRANCIS surname, and two sons, Lewis and John, also adopted the FRANCIS surname but used it interchangeably with the FRANK surname.

Robert Francis & Joanne Sibberance of Wethersfield, Connecticut

Samuel & Ann Francis of Baltimore County, Maryland, USA

This I1-N line is descended from Samuel and Ann Francis of Baltimore, who lived in Baltimore, MD soon after the American Revolution. This study has identified a string of genetic markers common to the descendants of this couple called a modal haplotype in four men.

Thomas Francis of England

The earliest ancestor of this line is believed to be Thomas Francis, who was born somewhere in England in 1655. He emigrated to the New World, where his son, Henry, was born around 1700 in Henry, VA. He is related to Micajah Francis, the first John Francis of Cornwall, and John Francis of Campbell County, VA. Click here for marker information.

Thomas H. Francis of Pike County, Kentucky

Thomas H. Francis (haplogroup E1b1b1) lived in western Virginia in the 18th century and is reported to be the ancestor of all Francises in Pike County, KY. One descendant of this line was Washington Vance, who was born around 1815 in Kentucky and was adopted into the Vance family (Irish R1b).Click here for marker information.

Thomas & Phebe Francis of Wales and Australia

This J2b line descends from Thomas Francis, who was born in Wales in 1806 and died in South Australia some time between 1857-1871.

Thomas Francis of Southhampton County, Virginia, USA

This untested line descends from Thomas Francis(1716-66). A descendant of his, Nathaniel Francis, was a slaveowner, who lost much of his family in the Nat Turner slave rebellion of 1831. Nathaniel's pregnant wife escaped, however, and bore a son, William Samuel Francis, on Sept 27, 1831.

Thomas Layland Francis

This J2 line descends from an individual who was born in 1886.

Woodson Francis of Missouri, USA

This I2b line line descends from an individual who was born around 1785 and died in Missouri in 1835.