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This page last updated Thursday July 21, 2011

The individuals listed on this page belong to what we tentatively call the "Limbo Davenports". Their genealogical status, at this point in time, remains in limbo. So far we have three surnames - Davenport, Woodruff, and Overton - who have ancestors living very close to each other - and who also have matching Y-DNA. Three of the Davenports were at one time believed to be James River Davenports. Three other Davenports are documented Pamunkey descendents who trace back to Davis > Martin > John. They descend from two different sons of John. Descendents of another of John's sons match the Pamunkey's. The Woodruff's match this group, but not other Woodruff's. The same can be said for the Overton. As more information is collected on these lines, we hope to pinpoint where the connections occurred.

 

Links

Listed below are some of websites dedicated to researching the "Limbo" Davenports.  Each represents the complete line or information about its progenitor. If you know of additional websites that might fit this same criteria - please contact the administrator at info@DavenportDNA.com.

A good place to start any Davenport research is Nevada Jack's Davenport Directory and Davenport site. It contains lists of hundreds of Davenport researchers and their interests.

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nvjack/davnport/

Michael Hébert's genealogy of Fielding Woodruff on Rootsweb.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mhebert&id=I56

 
 

 

  

Limbo Branches - Relationship Tree

We do not yet know what the branches of the James River Davenports are. So listed below are the branches of the matching participants. For our purposes a branch would begin with the sons of the 1st generation. If there was only one son then we would start with the sons in the 2nd generation and so on. We would like to test at lease one individual from each branch. The red highlighted entries are branches for which we have test participants. Of course we will accept any Davenport participants but especially need the non-highlighted branches.

If there are additional branches not listed or other changes need to be made - contact info@DavenportDNA.com

1st Generation

2nd Generation

3rd Generation

4th Generation

 Notes

Kit #

William 1805-1856

Horace 1833-1904

William 1880-1969

 

 

 41293

Charles Lewis ~ 1805-1848

William 1831-1907

Charles 1858-1886

 

 

70003

Charles Lewis ~ 1805-1848

William 1831-1907

William 1861-1955

 

 

92671

Davis 1660-

Martin 1682-1735

John ~1717-~1779

William ~1738-1801

96008

Davis 1660-

Martin 1682-1735

John ~1717-~1779

Richard 1750-1833

Jack Smith 1784-1836

92883

Davis 1660-

Martin 1682-1735

John ~1717-~1779

Richard 1750-1833

Jack Smith 1784-1836

75989

John Forbe Davenport 1828/38-1864

John 1860-1936

William (1884-1964)

 

 

 202730

Fielding Woodruff ~1795-1854

Daniel 1827-1908

Daniel 1888-1967

W001

Fielding Woodruff ~1795-1854

Daniel 1827-1908

Daniel 1888-1967

W006

Fielding Woodruff ~1795-1854

George ~1832-bef 1895

 

Fielding Woodruff ~1795-1854

Andrew ~1844-1906

 

George Woodruff ~1828-~1905

W008

Howell Woodruff ~1775-~1835

John 1828-1888

 

W014

William Overton~1849-?

27597
 

 

Y-DNA Test Results 

These are the Y-DNA results to-date of the participants we have placed in the Limbo Davenport branch. The different row colors represent the separate branches of the line.  Click on the Kit # to view more information about the individual Davenport linage.  Newer results have a purple block to the left of the kit number. The Modal haplotype is what we believe the Y-DNA of the Limbo Davenports looked like based on current results.  Red and blue cells show where an individual varies from the modal. Red indicates movement upward, while blue downward. Combined pink cells represent "connected" markers where the actual difference is counted as one.

The descendents of the Limbo Davenports

 belong to Haplogroup R1b1c*

 Note: Marker DYS 710 is treated differently than the others. The "repeats" (value) comes in two different sizes (bases) - two and four. If the mutation involved a two base mutation, an example would be from 35 to 35.2  A four base mutation would be something like 35 to 36 or 35.2 to 36.2  But a jump that looks like four (35 to 36) could also be two two-base mutations. The markers below, to the right of the purple line, represent a part of FTDNA's Advanced Marker selection. These markers  can be tested individually and in addition to the traditional 111 markers.  By increasing the number of markers tested we may be able to find additional DNA patterns enabling us to distinguish family branches.
  Locus 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111               Locus
DYS#
 

Kit #

 3
9
3		 3
9
0		 3
9
4
-
1
9		 3
9
1		 3
8
5
a		 3
8
5
b		 4
2
6		 3
8
8		 4
3
9		 3
8
9
-
1		 3
9
2		 3
8
9
-
2		 4
5
8		 4
5
9
a		 4
5
9
b		 4
5
5		 4
5
4		 4
4
7		 4
3
7		 4
4
8		 4
4
9		 4
6
4
a		 4
6
4
b		 4
6
4
c		 4
6
4
d		 4
6
0		 G
A
T
A
H
4		 Y
C
A
i
i
a		 Y
C
A
i
i
b		 4
5
6		 6
0
7		 5
7
6		 5
7
0		 C
D
Y
a		 C
D
Y
b		 4
4
2		 4
3
8		 5
3
1		 5
7
8		 3
9
5
S
1
a		 3
9
5
S
1
b		 5
9
0		 5
3
7		 6
4
1		 4
7
2		 4
0
6
S
1		 5
1
1		 4
2
5		 4
1
3
a		 4
1
3
b		 5
5
7		 5
9
4		 4
3
6		 4
9
0		 5
3
4		 4
5
0		 4
4
4		 4
8
1		 5
2
0		 4
4
6		 6
1
7		 5
6
8		 4
8
7		 5
7
2		 6
4
0		 4
9
2		 5
6
5		 DYS 710 4
8
5		 6
3
2		 4
9
5		 5
4
0		 7
1
4		 7
1
6		 7
1
7		 5
0
5		 5
5
6		 5
4
9		 5
8
9		 5
5
2		 4
9
4		 5
3
3		 6
3
6		 5
7
5		 6
3
8		 4
6
2		 4
5
2		 4
4
5		 Y
G
A T
A		 4
6
3		 4
4
1		 Y
G
G A
A T		 5
2
5		 7
1
2		 5
9
3		 5
9
3		 6
5
0		 5
3
2		 7
1
5		 5
0
4		 5
6
1		 5
5
2		 7
2
6		 6
3
5		 5
8
7		 6
4
3		 4
9
7		 5
1
0		 4
3
4		 4
6
1		 4
3
5		   DYF  399x 5
2
2		    

Kit #
  Modal 14 24 14 10 11 15 12 12 11 12 13 28 16 9 9 11 11 25 15 19 28 15 16 17 17 11 10 20 23 16 15 18 18 35 41 11 12 11 9 15 16 8 10 10 8 10 10 12 23 23 15 10 12 12 15 8 12 22 20 13 12 11 14 11 11 12 12 35               12 11 12 12   9 12 12 10 11                                                       20t 23c 26.1t 10     Modal
. 41293 14 24 14 10 11 15 12 12 11 12 13 28 16 9 9 11 11 25 15 19 28 15 16 16 17                                                                                     35                           12                                                             20t 23c 26.1t       41293
.

70003

 14 24 14 10 11 15 12 12 11 12 13 28 16 9 9 11 11 25 15 19 28 16 16 17 17 11 10 20 23 16 15 18 18 35 41 11 12 11 9 15 16 8 10 10 8 10 10 12 23 23 15 10 12 12 15 8 12 22 20 13 12 11 14 11 11 12 12 35                           12                                                             20t 23c 26.1t      

70003
. 92671 14 24 14 10 11 15 12 12 11 12 13 28 16 9 9 11 11 25 15 19 28 16 16 17 17 11 10 20 23 16 15 18 18 35 41 11 12                                                                                                                                                                   92671
. 96008 14 24 14 10 11 15 12 12 11 12 13 26 16 9 9 11 11 25 15 19 28 15 16 17 17 11 10 20 23 16 15 18 18 35 41 11 12 11 9 15 16 8 10 10 8 10 10 12 23 23 15 10 12 12 15 8 12 22 20 13 12 11 14 11 11 12 12 35               12 11 12 12   9 12 12 10 11                                                       21t 23c 26.1t 10     96008
. 92883 14 24 14 10 11 15 12 12 11 12 13 26 16 9 9 11 11 25 15 19 28 15 16 17 17 11 10 20 23 16 15 18 18 35 41 11 12                                                             35                                                                                         20t 23c 26.1t       92883
. 75989 14 24 14 10 11 15 12 12 11 12 13 28 16 9 9 11 11 25 15 19 28 15 16 17 17 11 10 20 23 16 15 18 18 35 41 11 12 11 9 15 16 8 10 10 8 10 10 12 23 23 15 10 12 12 15 8 12 22 20 13 12 11 14 11 11 12 12 35.2                           12                                                             20t 23c 26.1t       75989
. 202730 14 24 14 10 11 15 12 12 11 12 13 28 16 9 9 11 11 25 15 19 28 15 16 17 17 11 10 20 23 16 15 18 18 35 40 11 12                                       12     13                                                                                                                      
. W001 14 24 14 10 11 15 12 12 11 12 13 28 16 9 9 11 11 25 15 19 28 15 16 17 17 11 10 20 23 16           11 12                                       12     13                                                                                                                     W001
. W006 14 24 14 10 11 15 12 12 11 12 13 28 16 9 9 11 11 25 15 19 28 15 16 17 17 11 10 20 23 16 15 19 18 35 41 11 12 11 9 15 16 8 10 10 8 10 10 12 23 23 15 10 12 12 15 8 12 22 20 13 12 11 14 11 11 12 12 34                                                                                         20t 23c 24.1t       W006
. W008 14 24 14 10 11 15 12 12 11 12 13 28 16 9 9 11 11 25 15 19 28 15 16 17 18 11 10 20 23 16 15 19 18 35 41 11 12 11 9 15 16 8 10 10 8 10 10 12 21 23 15 10 12 12 15 8 12 22 20 13 12 11 14 11 11 12 12                                                                                                       W008
. W014 14 24 14 10 11 15 12 12 11 12 13 28 16 9 9 11 11 25 15 19 28 15 16 17 17 11 10 20 23 16 15 18 18 35 41 11 12 11 9 15 16 8 10 10 8 10 10 12 23 23 15 10 12 12 15 8 12 22 20 13 12 11 14 11 11 12 12 35               12 11 12 12   9 12 12 10 11                                                       20t 23c 25.1t 10     W014
. 27597 14 24 14 10 11 15 12 12 11 12 13 28 16 9 9 11 11 25 15 19 28 15 16 17 17 11 10 20 23 16 15 18 18 35 41 11 12 11 9 15 16 8 10 10 8 10 10 12 23 23 15 10 12 12 15 8 12 22 20 13 12 11 14 11 11 12 12                                                                                                       27597
 

Kit #

 3
9
3		 3
9
0		 3
9
4
-
1
9		 3
9
1		 3
8
5
a		 3
8
5
b		 4
2
6		 3
8
8		 4
3
9		 3
8
9
-
1		 3
9
2		 3
8
9
-
2		 4
5
8		 4
5
9
a		 4
5
9
b		 4
5
5		 4
5
4		 4
4
7		 4
3
7		 4
4
8		 4
4
9		 4
6
4
a		 4
6
4
b		 4
6
4
c		 4
6
4
d		 4
6
0		 G
A
T
A
H
4		 Y
C
A
i
i
a		 Y
C
A
i
i
b		 4
5
6		 6
0
7		 5
7
6		 5
7
0		 C
D
Y
a		 C
D
Y
b		 4
4
2		 4
3
8		 5
3
1		 5
7
8		 3
9
5
S
1
a		 3
9
5
S
1
b		 5
9
0		 5
3
7		 6
4
1		 4
7
2		 4
0
6
S
1		 5
1
1		 4
2
5		 4
1
3
a		 4
1
3
b		 5
5
7		 5
9
4		 4
3
6		 4
9
0		 5
3
4		 4
5
0		 4
4
4		 4
8
1		 5
2
0		 4
4
6		 6
1
7		 5
6
8		 4
8
7		 5
7
2		 6
4
0		 4
9
2		 5
6
5		 DYS 710 4
8
5		 6
3
2		 4
9
5		 5
4
0		 7
1
4		 7
1
6		 7
1
7		 5
0
5		 5
5
6		 5
4
9		 5
8
9		 5
5
2		 4
9
4		 5
3
3		 6
3
6		 5
7
5		 6
3
8		 4
6
2		 4
5
2		 4
4
5		 Y
G
A T
A		 4
6
3		 4
4
1		 Y
G
G A
A T		 5
2
5		 7
1
2		 5
9
3		 5
9
3		 6
5
0		 5
3
2		 7
1
5		 5
0
4		 5
6
1		 5
5
2		 7
2
6		 6
3
5		 5
8
7		 6
4
3		 4
9
7		 5
1
0		 4
3
4		 4
6
1		 4
3
5		   DYF  399x 5
2
2		    

Kit #

 

Participants

The following people are participating in the Davenport Surname DNA Project.  You may view more detail for some by clicking on the link in the Ancestor column.    The cell under each name is the email address to contact the participant. Replace the "at" with @.

Kit #

Participant

Current Residence

Earliest Known Ancestor plus more

41293

William Davenport

Florida

William (1805 Virginia - 1856 Missouri) > Horace (1833-1904) > William Lawrence (1880-1969)

41293 "at" DavenportDNA.com
70003

Gene Davenport

 North Carolina

Charles Lewis Davenport (bet 1800/1810 Virginia - abt 1848 Tennessee) > William Lewis (1831 Tennessee - 1907 Kentucky)> Charles L (1858 Kentucky - 1886 Kentucky) > Charles Miles (1879 Kentucky - 1932 Illinois) > John Clyde (1907 Illinois -  1986 Arizona)

70003 "at" DavenportDNA.com

92671

Rodnie Davenport

Kentucky

Charles Lewis Davenport (bet 1800/1810 Virginia - abt 1848 Tennessee) > William Lewis (1831 Tennessee - 1907 Kentucky) > William Marion (1861 - 1955) > Governor Bradley (1897 - 1949)

92671 "at" DavenportDNA.com

96008

Mark Davenport

North Carolina

Davis Davenport (b. abt 1660) > Martin (Virginia) > John > William > Presley > Marshall > Elisha > John > Luther > Buford (1908-1980).  (Note - line is being re-researched since paper trail leads to Pamunkey Davenports)

96008 "at" DavenportDNA.com

92883

Robert Davenport

 

Davis Davenport (b. abt 1660) > Martin (Virginia) > John > Richard > Jack Smith > William > John.  (Note - line is being re-researched since paper trail leads to Pamunkey Davenports)

92883 "at" DavenportDNA.com

75989

Robert Davenport

Illinois

Davis Davenport (b. abt 1660) > Martin (Virginia) > John > Richard > Jack Smith > Peter > Ulysses.  (Note - line is being re-researched since paper trail leads to Pamunkey Davenports)

75989 "at" DavenportDNA.com

202730

Gene Davenport

 

John Forbes Davenport (1828/38 Alabama - 1864 Virginia) > John Edwin (1860 Alabama - 1936 Alabama) > William > Emmett

A0001 "at" DavenportDNA.com

W001

Woodruff

 

Fielding Woodruff (abt 1795 Virginia - 1854 Illinois) > Daniel Webster (1827 Kentucky - 1908 Illinois) > Daniel Webster (1888 Illinois - 1967 Illinois) ( Note - W001 and W006 are brothers)

 

W006

Woodruff

 

Fielding Woodruff (abt 1795 Virginia - 1854 Illinois) > Daniel Webster (1827 Kentucky - 1908 Illinois) > Daniel Webster (1888 Illinois-1967 Illinois) ( Note - W006 and W001 are brothers)

 

W008

Woodruff

 

George Woodruff (abt 1828 Georgia - abt 1905 Alabama)

 

W014

Woodruff

 

Howell S Woodruff (~1775 Virginia - ~1835 Tennessee) > John McNairy (1828 Tennessee - 1888 Tennessee) > William Hamilton (1883 - 1923)

 

27597

Overton

 

William Overton (~1849 Illinois - ?)

 

 

 

Other Surnames

 

In most cases when any of our Davenport results have had a high resolution (37 or 67 marker) match - it was with another Davenport. However, there have been a few other surnames that came very close to the Davenports. For our purposes, very close means they match on 33 out of 37 markers or better, or 62 out of 67 or better. The surnames listed below are those that are very close to this Davenport line on the 37 or 67 marker test.

This does not necessarily infer that they had a common ancestor.  But it may be worth looking into the possibility. The first step is to determine if the ancestors lived in the same vicinity at the same time. When viewing the "prospects" - give the 67/67 a higher priority, then 66/67, and 65/67, and so on.

 

Surname

67 Marker

Surname

37 Marker

Overton

67

Tiry

34

Woodruff

67

 

 

Flowers

62

    
       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Analysis

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