Families with Possible Parallel Histories to Blackard

All of these families originate in the eastern midlands of England and are found later in proximity to the Blackard family in colonial America. Many pass through southside Virginia, and some through Barbados, in the 17th century. Many appear in either Edgecombe or Granville Bute, NC in the early 18th century. Four families have the J2 y-DNA haplogroup which is fairly rare in the UK (1-3% in scattered areas).

BLACKARD
J2 y-DNA haplotype; 11/12 match to Judkins
Lincolnshire Eng 1562-1650
Barbados 1655-1723
Lancashire Eng 1688
Prince George, Va 1649-1748?
Edgecombe NC 1748
Granville/Bute, NC
(false Scottish origin story)
family left Lincolnshire after English Civil War

JUDKINS
J2 y-DNA haplotype; 11/12 match to Blackard
Rutland, Northampshire, Wiltshire, Lincolnshire Eng 1504-present
Lincolnshire in 1600s
Surry, Va c1650-present
Barbados 1683
Edgecombe NC 1740
Granville/Bute, NC
(false Scottish origin story)
said to originate in Suffolk where celtic Coritani tribe originated
surname from crusades era=children baptized in water from the Jordon

WILLOUGHBY
Lincolnshire Eng 11th century-1650 (Francis Willoughby)
Barbados 1650-18th century
Bertie NC (adj Edgecombe)
Namesake of Willoughby Blackard, Willoughby Ownby
Francis Willoughby namesake of Francis Blackard & Francis Judkins of Barbados?
Danish surname=from farm of Willows

OWNBY
Rutland, Eng 1156-present
Lancashire Eng 1670
Granville/Bute, NC
(false Scottish origin story)
Danish surname

LANGSTON
J2 y-DNA haplotype
Rutland Eng
Lincolnshire in 1600s
Granville, NC 1749
Danish surname

KITCHEN
J2 y-DNA haplotype
Laceby, Lincolnshire Eng
Sussex(Surry) Va
Edgecombe NC

BALL (only 1 line)
J2 y-DNA haplotype
Northampshire, Wiltshire, Eng
Immigrated to Virginia

TROUSDALE
Lincolnshire Eng
John Trousdale left Lincolnshire after English Civil War
family legend connects Blackard family

MANGUM
J2 y-DNA haplotype
Yorkshire, Eng (1620 William Mangham)
Surry, Va
Granville/Bute, NC
Early Granville Mangum deed mentions Charles Blackard
Mangum in Orange Co NC

SEARCY
Yorkshire, Eng
Granville, NC
Bondsman of Charles Blackard II