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The following is based on the work done by the Project Admin for the WillisDNA.com FTDNA Willis YDNA project. The data displays the genealogical relationships for one group of Willis descendants whose YDNA test results show that they share a relatively recent common ancestor.
The data identifies line specific "Patriarchs", who are the oldest known ancestor of the line. For the most part the lineages shown here are as provided by the kit owners through the Willis YDNA Project. The data is approximately ordered in terms of the DOB of the Patriarch. The eldest Patriarch currently s hown is "Stephen Willis" of Brunswick County VA. Examination of the dispersion ages of the other Patriarchs, as well as their location/dispersion, suggest that they may indeed all descend from Stephen, or at a minimum share a common ancestor only slightly further back than Stephen. It should be noted that the lineage
This parituclar set of descendant kits is designated the "Southern Group" in the WIllis YDNA project, and are characterized as belonging to the R1b1a2a1a1b4 haplogroup. This group contains the largest number of kits (other than those that do not any other kit) in this Project. The predominant dispersion pattern seems to be from Hanover County Virginia, southward, into southside Virginia and or the Carolinas.
| Presumed Patriarch(s)* | Descendants** | | Kit | Cluster | Locus
| | Stephen Willis b1703 in King William County, Virginia. | Person:Stephen Willis (5), born in 1725, lived Hanover County, Virginia, =Elizabeth Dabney | Person:George Willis (30), 1754 in Hanover County died 1827 Wilkes County, Georgia, | 250529, | Cluster 1 | King WIlliam, Hanover, GA
| | Stephen Dabney Willis born 1760 in Hanover County | 250704. | Cluster 1 | Hanover
| | Person:William Willis (57) b1725-1732 of Brunswick County, Virginia , d bef.1792 Mechlenburg, VA. First Wife and mother of all children ELizabeth Davis, second wife Mary
| Richard (moved to Spartanburg Co., SC) | | 209704 | Cluster 2 | Brunswick, Mechlenburg, SC
| | Person:Sterling Willis (1) bc1754/1758 d 1835/39; moved to Todd County, KY | | 149433 | Cluster 3 | KY
| | Sherod (moved to Jessamine Co., KY), | |
| | Person:Drury Willis (1) (moved to Madison County, KY), | |
| | Thomas (lived in Lincoln County, TN in 1820), | | 113965 | Cluster 3 | TN
| | Edward (moved to Garrard County, KY), | | 153703 | Cluster 0
| | John b1756 moved to Jessamine Co., KY; | John Augustine/James A. | 153009 | Cluster 5
| | Person:Richard Willis (20) b 1734, Brother of William b. c1725 | | |
| | Britton Willis (1758-1845) He moved to South Carolina when young, and at age 17 or 18, while living at Saluda Old Town, he was recruited as a Minute Man to serve "on the frontiers of Georgia." He remained in Georgia for several years after the Revolution before returning to South Carolina by 1790, where he settled in the Pendleton area. In 1806 he sold his lands in South Carolina and moved his family to Muhlenberg Co., Kentucky, where he died April 1845 in Muhlenberg County.
| James (b ca 1783 GA), to Marshall County, Mississippi by 1836 | | 129808 | Cluster 1 | SC, KY, Mississippi
| | Matthew G. (b 20 Sep 1785 GA/SC), Johnson County, Arkansas by 1840 | | 87203 | Cluster 1 | Arkansas
| | Thomas (b ca 1790/1794 SC), and his family settle in Hancock County, Illinois in February 1832. | | 155223 | Cluster 1 | Illinois
| | David Gillespie (ca 1799 SC), | | 246086. | Cluster 1 | SC
| | Peter Willis 1765-1840, lived Rutherford County, NC by 1790; to Franklin/Coffee County, TN by 1816. Married Frances, daughter of Jesse Tate of Rutherford Co.
| Joseph, | | 30700
Specific line not identified | NC | TN
| | Anderson F[owler?],
| | David,
| | William Bryson and
| | George,
| | Louden Willis b1783 Mecklenburg County, Virginia-1856 Greene County GA. His father may have been William Willis, who died the year he was born. He moved with his mother to Georgia. Married 1815 1) Priscilla Thompson in Greene County, Georgia. 2) 1819, in Greene County, Susan D. Terrell. | | | 248674. | Cluster 0 | Mechlenburg VA, GA
| | Robert Willis bc 1784 in Virginia; died 1857 Randolph County, Indiana. Father may have been from NC. Married 1806 1) Mary Blair, widow of Eli McVay; 1816 2) Mary Mumpower both marriages in Grainger County, Tennessee. Robert | Eli (b. January 24, 1815), moved to Van Buren County, Michigan, in 1864 or shortly after | | 99549
Specific line not identified | Cluster 4 | VA, TN
| | Benjamin A. (b. 1817), |
| | William Henry (b. January 31, 1828), moved to Van Buren County, Michigan, in 1864 or shortly after |
| | Thomas S. (b. May 9, 1829) moved to Van Buren County, Michigan, in 1864 or shortly after |
| William Willis of Pittsylvania County, Virginia;
[Parents commonly identified as William Willis=Isabel Palmer in which case he is said to have been born in......;
OR Richard Willis=Dorethe Willis in which case he is said to have been born in WarwickshireEngland]. was born in Pittsylvania County and died in Henry County, Kentucky. [DOB=1735/36;
| Joel W. Willis. | John W. Willis. | 177338. | Cluster 4 | Pittsylvania
| | Joseph Willis of Patrick County, Virginia married Sally Nowlin on June 4, 1794.
| Greenville, | Greenville's line stayed primarily in the Patrick/Floyd area, but some moved toKY, WV and Ohio | 51081.
Specific line not identified | Cluster 3 | Patrick, KY, WV, OH
| | John,
| | James
| | William J. Willis was born about 1805 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Married sisters, 1) Judah Collins in South Carolina and 2) Amy Collins in Fayette County, Alabama.
| Eldest son, Jabez G., was born in 1830 in South Carolina. | James, born in Alabama in 1859. |
| | James Franklin. Fayette County, Alabama | John William, | 176129.
Specific line not identified | Cluster 2 | SC, Alabama
| | Rufus Braxton,
| | Zedic Hamilton/Thomas R.
| | William Sterling Willis was born in April 1829 in Kentucky (according to the 1900 census). Per the 1880 census, he was born in Kentucky about 1828 and his wife, Catherine Hopkins or Hoskins, was born about 1840 in Kentucky. | | | 153703. | KY
| Daniel Campbell Willis 1807 in VA, near Wash. D.C. His father is believed to be Robert. He had a brother, Robert. In 1814, his parents moved to southern KY near the TN border. Daniel later moved to Greene Co, IL ca 1826, where he
m.1) Elizabeth Green 2 Feb 1832.
m.2) Frances Fears, b. 25 Dec 1813, Grainger Co. TN, on 17 Nov 1834 in Greene Co, IL. Daniel
m.3) Martha Ann (Fears) Butler, 11 Jul 1869, also in Greene Co, IL. Daniel was a Methodist. He d. 17 Jul 1882 in Adair Co, MO. | Robert, b. Greene Co, IL | | 54942<br<Specific line not identified. | Cluster 4 | DC, KY, TN, IL
| | William, b. Greene Co, IL |
| | James b. Greene Co, IL |
| | John, b. Des Moines Co, IA |
| | Samuel, b. Des Moines Co, IA |
| | Luther, b. Adair Co, MO |
| | Alfred b. Adair Co, MO. |
| | Major Willis of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and Maury County, Tennessee married Mary Jones in Sumner County, Tennessee, in 1807. Major Willis and a William Willis are reported to have migrated from Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to Tennessee about 1800.
| Seaborn Willis. born about 1809 in North Carolina and died before January 1860 in Maury County, Tennessee, married Elizabeth Southall, daughter of John and Judie Flippen Southall of Williamson County, Tennessee. | William M. Willis (born about 1833, Maury County, Tennessee) | 150854. | Cluster 4 | Pittsylvania, TN
| | Henry,
| | Richard T.
| | John
| | William Austin Willis was born in 1808 in North Carolina. In 1850 he was living in New Madrid County, Missouri, where he is listed in the 1850 census with wife Sarah (age 39, born in North Carolina), William Austin married second to Lydia A. Arterbury, born 1830 Crittenden Co., KY; died between 1870-1876 | William Cicero Willis, born in Georgia between 1835 and 1843, | |
| | Henry Thomas Willis, born in Georgia between 1835 and 1843, | | 84019 | Cluster 6 | NC, GA, Missouri
| | Eli Samuel Willis born in Georgia between 1835 and 1843, | |
| | James Wesley Willis, born in Missouri after 1847 | |
| | John Harvey Willis, born 18 July 1860, | | 202117. | Cluster 6 | NC, GA, Missouri
| | Henry S. Willis of Scott County, Kentucky was born October 19, 1810 either in Virginia or in Kentucky. On April 7, 1836 he married Jane Parker Robinson. | Richard Perry Willis was born January 16, 1837, married Keturah Ann Yates in Alabama on January 16, 1860, | Julius Kendrick | 136256 | Cluster 0 | Ky, Alabama
| | Henry
| | William
| | Robert
| | James E
| | Austin Willis born c 1820 NC died 1880 NC. Lived in Company Shops NC (now Burlington) after marriage, working as a blacksmith for the NC Railroad. Served as a private in the Civil War in Company K, 47th North Carolina Regiment (Alamance Minutemen).
| John Willis, was born in 1850 and died about 1900 in Nottoway County, Virginia. | | 20880. | Cluster 6 | NC, Nottoway VA,
| | William Ira Willis of Iowa was born about 1835 in Iowa and died on August 6, 1907 in Louisville, Clay County, Illinois. He married Elizabeth Curtis.
| James Levi, | |
| | Anderson, | |
| | Joseph Oliver | |
| | William (AKA Wilbert) | |
| | David Wilber | William Vaughn | 48626. | Cluster 5 IOwa, Illinois
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