Quincy Oakley Genealogy
Narratives about the genealogy of the Oakley family of Quincy, Illinois
By Burks Oakley II
e-mail:  burkso2 [at] gmail [dot] com

1 - Introduction - a short introduction to my research about my father’s ancestors

2 - Oakley Family History - highlights of our Oakley family ancestry

3A - Miller Family History - highlights of our Miller family ancestry

3B - Ezra Marvin Miller, Revisited - Using Ancestry.com ThruLines to confirm our Miller ancestors

3C - Ezra Marvin Miller's Middle Name - How did he get his middle name of Marvin?

4A - Darling Family History - narrative about my Darling ancestors, who came to America from Scotland in 1650

4B - Lucy Darling, Revisited - Using Ancestry.com ThruLines to confirm our Darling ancestors

5A - Wells Family History - using DNA to break through a brick wall on our Miller-Wells line

5B - Wells/Welles Ancestors, Revisited - Using Ancestry.com ThruLines to confirm our Wells/Welles ancestors

6A - Burks Family History - highlights of our Burks family ancestry

6B - William Burks, Revisited - DNA matches with descendants of William Burks

7A - Crawford Family History - highlights of our Crawford family ancestry

7B - Mary Jane Crawford, Revisited - Using Ancestry.com ThruLines to confirm our Crawford ancestors

8A - Griffey Family History - using DNA to break through a brick wall on Amy Griffey's line

8B - Amy (White) Griffey, Revisited - Using Ancestry.com ThruLines to confirm our Griffey ancestors

9A - Lester Family History - highlights of our Lester family ancestry

9B - Elmony Lester, Revisited - Using Ancestry.com ThruLines to confirm Elmony Lester's ancestors

10 - How the Oakley Family Got to Quincy - a summary of the events that brought the first members of the Oakley family to Quincy, Illinois

11 - The Oakley-Botsford Family Relationship - a narrative about how the Oakleys and the Botsfords are related

12 - Eaton Family Relationship - a narrative about how the Oakleys and the Eatons are related

13 - Homesteading in Chadron, Nebraska - a narrative about the Aaron Burr Oakley family's adventure (1885-1891)

14A - Deep Triangulation Confirms Our Oakley Lineage - narrative about DNA and our Oakley-Gardner ancestry  (expanded chart showing the different family lines)

14B - Triangulation on Chromosome 15 - DNA matches on Chromosome 15 involving my Oakley ancestors and their descendants)

14C - Links to narratives about my DNA matches on Chromosome 15

15 - Our Spencer-Whitbread Ancestors - narrative about DNA and our Spencer-Whitbread ancestry

16 - More Genetic Genealogy involving my Case-Spencer Ancestors - narrative about DNA and our Case-Spencer ancestry

17 - The Y-DNA of the “Quincy Oakley” Males - narrative about my Y-DNA match with other Oakley males

18 - Hannah Louise Tripp and the Mayflower Branch - more about the Tripp family line going back to the Mayflower

19 - More about our Tripp Family Heritage - tracing our Tripp family line back to Rhode Island and to the Mayflower

20 - Our Mayflower Ancestors - narrative about being descended from Francis Cooke, who came to America on the Mayflower

21 - Our Warren Ancestors - going back to the King of Jerusalem during the Crusades

22 - Descendants of Allen Miller and Hannah Louise Tripp - narrative about DNA and our Miller-Tripp ancestry

23 - Descendants of Joseph Mosher and Lydia Taber - narrative about DNA and our Mosher-Taber ancestry

24 - Tracing Abigail Mallory's Ancestors - narrative about Abigail Mallory's ancestors

25 - DNA and Burks Family Relatives - narrative about Ancestry DNA and my Burks family relatives

26 - Our Beers Family Ancestry - narrative about our Beers family ancestors

27 - Our Lyon Family Ancestry - narrative about Lyon family ancestors on my Oakley-Darling-Lyon line

28 - The Warner Branch - narrative about Warner family ancestors on my Burks family line

29 - Our Woodruff and Woodford Ancestors - our Woodruff and Woodford ancestors on our Miller family line

30 - Sarah Rust – tracing our ancestry back to Henry Rust (1613-1684)

31 - Burr Family Genealogy - tracing our Burr family ancestry

32 - The Sermon Preached at the Funeral of Hannah Case Miller - the original document from 1819, plus discussion

33 - David Oakley Jr. and Eunice Oakley - narrative about double first cousins in the Oakley family who married each other

34 - Wind Up in Traer - narrative about Elisabeth Oakley Smith and her husband Gordon Smith

35 - LaVerne C. Miller - musings about Cousin Dick

36 - DNA Triangulation on our Woodruff-Woodford Ancestors - narrative about DNA and our Woodruff-Woodford ancestors

37 - My DNA Matches with Quincy Oakleys - details about some of my closest DNA matches

38 - DNA Matches with Descendants of James Alfred Burks & Mary Jane Cameron Crawford

39 - My DNA Match with Brett M. Struck - An Oakley Relative

40 - The Levi Burks DNA Circle - details about my DNA matches with descendants of Levi Burks

41 - New DNA Matches with Oakley Descendants - details about my DNA matches with Brenda Coleman and Timothy Bever

42 - Stephen Slane - A Burks Cousin - details about my DNA match with Stephen Slane

43A - Rose Hubbard - We Share Six Sets of Common Ancestors - details about my family tree matches with Rose Hubbard

43B - Accounting for my DNA Match with Rose Hubbard - details about my DNA match with Rose Hubbard

44 - Joseph West and Jane Owen - additional details about my fifth-great grandparents

45 - George Carpenter - A Burks Family Relative - details about my DNA match with George Carpenter and other Burks family descendants

46 - Debra Coleman - A DNA match on my West-Lewis line

47 - Reserved

48 - Richard More - immigrant - Richard More – Another one of my ancestors who came to America on the Mayflower

49 - Some of My Ancestors Who Were European Nobility - details about my European ancestors who were nobility during the Middle Ages

50 - My Ancestral Lines to King Edward I - details about my ancestral lines going back to King Edward I of England

51 - Going Back on One of Elmony Lester’s Ancestral Lines on Geni.com - Sir Gilbert Talbot and beyond

52 - My Scrope Ancestors in the Middle Ages in England - details about my Scrope ancestors who were English noblemen in the late Middle Ages

53A - Jane Phippen's Ancestors in the Middle Ages in England - details about my ancestors going back from Jane Phippen

54 - William Marshal - Knight from the Middle Ages in England - details about my ancestor Sir William Marshal

55 - My Ancestors Who Were Sureties of the Magna Carta - details about these English ancestors

56 - My Ancestral Lines Going Back to Sir William Champernon - details about 8 separate ancestral lines

57 - Capt. George Lamberton – My Eighth-Great Grandfather - immortalized in Longfellow's poem Phantom Ship

58 - My Cousin George Carpenter’s Ancestors (and Mine) on Geni.com - our common ancestors going back to England in the Middle Ages

59 - Sgt. Ephraim Wheeler, My Eighth-Great Grandfather - details about my English immigrant ancestor

60 - My Welsh Quaker Ancestors - details about John Owen and his father Robert Owen

61 - My Welsh Ancestors - Part 1 - details about some of my Welsh ancestors who were nobility

62 - My Ancestral Lines Going Back to Sir Roger Pilkington II, Knight - details about my connections to Sir Roger

63 - Margaret Vernon - My 14th-Great Grandmother - and Her Ancestors in England - details about some of Margaret Vernon's ancestors

64 - My DNA Match with Josh Cocanougher – A Burks Relative - details about my DNA match with Josh Cocanougher

65 - My Revised Ethnicity Estimate on Ancestry.com

66 - Anna Mosher, My Fourth-Great Grandmother - clearing up some confusion with Anna Mosher

67 - My Throckmorton Ancestors in England - details about some of my Throckmorton ancestors

68 - My DNA match with Laura LaChance - details about my DNA match with this Miller descendant

69 - My De Carteret Ancestors on the Island of Jersey - going back to the Middle Ages

70 - William de Tyson, Lord of Alnwick - one of My English Ancestors from the Middle Ages

71 - Henry de Percy - one of My English Ancestors from the Middle Ages

72 - My Ancestral Lines Back to Hugh de Moreville - one of My English Ancestors from the Middle Ages

73 - My Ancestral Lines Back to Hywel Dda ap Cadell, King of the Britons - one of My Welsh Ancestors from the Middle Ages

74 - Going Back to Sir John de Gray, Knight of the Garter - one of My English Ancestors from the Middle Ages

75 - My Ancestors Who Lived in Leeds Castle - and some of Them Even Owned It!

76 - My Ancestral Line(s) Going Back to Poland in the Middle Ages - connecting me back to Polish nobility

77 - Michael Strahan is my Distant Cousin - details about how Michael and I are related

78 - Karen Turnbell - a Burks Relative

79 - Julie Freeman - an Oakley Relative

79B - Florence Messina and Others - a continuation of Chapter 79

80 - My Ancestral Lines to Bolesław the Brave - King of Poland in the Middle Ages

81 - My Ancestral Lines to Eric the Victorious - the First King of Sweden

82 - Oakley Family DNA Matches with Brittany Bunce

83 - Dunrobin Castle, Lord William Moray, and Some of My Scottish Ancestors

84 - My Ancestral Line(s) Back to William “The Lion”, King of Scots

85 - My Ancestral Lines to Welsh Kings - ROUGH DRAFT ONLY

86 - My Ancestral Line(s) to the Stewart Clan in Scotland

87 - Jill Severn – A Burks Relative

88 - Dianthe Case - My Oldest Relative Who Lived in Adams County, Illinois

89 - My Ancestral Lines to Robert de Ferrers - 1st Earl of Derby, Lord of Tutbury

90 - Some Interesting Facts about Two of my Great-Grandaunts Going Back on my Oakley Line

92 - A Possible Origin of my Nigerian Ethnicity

93 - At Long Last - A DNA Match with the Allen Miller Oakley Branch of Our Family

My New DNA Match with Randy Risto (going back on my Crawford line)

My New DNA Match with dannysize45 (and where it took me)

My New DNA Match with James Hourigan

Who is Oakley Burks and Am I Related to Her?

My DNA Match with Heather L. DesChene - A Burks Family Relative

My New DNA Match with Nora Rosena Slane - A Burks Family Relative

Samuel Perry Burks - One of Our Distant Burks Cousins

More About Our Family’s Roots in New England

Another Burks Cousin - Arley Odell Burks

My New DNA Match with Bill Earls (and where it took me)

Jeffrey Johnston - My DNA Match with a Wisdom Relative Going Back on Amy Griffey’s Ancestral Line

Ashley Zdenek - Another Distant Relative with the Oakley-Gardner DNA Segment on Chromosome 15

My DNA Match with Sheryl Finch (née Parker)

Oakley Family DNA Matches with Frank Paton (Going back on the Miller branch of our family tree)

Mary Louise Miller - A Really Interesting Miller Cousin

Victoria Vought – Another Oakley Descendant Likely to Have the Oakley-Gardner DNA Segment on Chromosome 15

My Efforts to Learn More about Burr Oakley and his Family

My DNA Match with Tracey Moore (née Ford)

My DNA Match with Brooke Kressel - I’ve never been so mystified

My DNA Match with Randy Chrisley (and where it took me)

My New DNA Match with Amanda Colwell (and what are the odds?)

My New DNA Match with Bridget Boss

My New DNA Match with Joyce Purdy - Our Common Ancestors Go Back to the Early 1600’s

More About My DNA Matches On Chromosome 15 With Oakley-Browne Descendants

My DNA Matches with Iola May Oakley’s Descendants

My DNA Match with Shannon Wiley (and where it took me)

My DNA Match with William Edwin Oakley

My DNA Matches with Descendants of Margaret Ann Oakley (1831-1887)

My New DNA Match with Gail V. Fenneman (née Brocka)

My New DNA Match with Betty Fitterman (and where it took me)

My New DNA Match with Jeffrey Bruce

My DNA Match with Randy Pearson - It wasn’t what I expected to find

What Happened to the Oakley-Browne DNA Segment in the Quincy Oakley Line?

Roberta Vorobel - An Oakley-Browne Descendant

My DNA Matches with the Descendants of Mary Ida Lemonds (1868-1950)

My New DNA Match with Debra Stuart (and where it took me)

Dwelle Descendants with the Oakley-Browne DNA Segment on Chromosome 15

B.S. - Yet Another Oakley-Browne Descendant

Why Does Burks Use the Terminology Oakley-Browne DNA Segment?

My Thompson-Addington DNA Relatives

The Sypher Branch of the Oakley Family Tree

Florance Robinson (née Hatch) - An Oakley Relative From Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

My Thompson-Addington DNA Relatives - An Update with a Major Correction

Updated 28 May 2025