tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post8754937671619434000..comments2024-02-25T06:58:41.332-05:00Comments on Brouwer Genealogy: The Family of George Brewer of Brunswick County, VirginiaChris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-59072042857744030022024-01-08T06:50:30.169-05:002024-01-08T06:50:30.169-05:00Mary Ellen Brewer b 1884 in Ar died 1967 in Louisi...Mary Ellen Brewer b 1884 in Ar died 1967 in Louisiana had two brothers, George and Henry Brewer. They came from Booneville Mo. Henry died in New Orleans and George in Plaquemine La. Mary raised them both. Unsure what happened to their parents. She married David Marion Barker, she had 3 children Louis,Myrtle,and James. David Marion Barker died. ,She remarried George Taylor had two children Mandy and George Taylor.. They are buried in Indian mound cemetery in La. Thank You Charla BarkerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-45442334935978549052023-05-27T06:51:46.505-04:002023-05-27T06:51:46.505-04:00Kelly, Try the email link for Foy that is found on...Kelly, Try the email link for Foy that is found on the main page of the Brewer DNA Project website - https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/brewer-dna/about/background. I have not had any correspondence with Foy in the past few years now, but he is still listed there as one of the co-administrators.Chris Chesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-26034870800994087452023-05-26T11:47:15.059-04:002023-05-26T11:47:15.059-04:00Does anyone know how to get a copy of Varner's...Does anyone know how to get a copy of Varner's book? I'm not sure if Varner is deceased, but email links in this blog no longer work. Thanks!Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578581196948120260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-6850279374247154462018-06-15T06:48:58.623-04:002018-06-15T06:48:58.623-04:00The Brewer DNA Project actually has a number of di...The Brewer DNA Project actually has a number of different families named BREWER with origins in the southern states during the colonial period. What types of relationships they had with each other is a matter of conjecture. Perhaps Ambrose was adopted into the George Brewer family or perhaps he was just another Brewer living in the same area, with no connection other than a common surname. We cannot say for sure.<br />Autosomal testing for trying to locate a common ancestor who lived in the 1700s is useless. None of us retain enough intact DNA from our ancestors that far back, and since we each have many lines of ancestry back to colonial times, some in common, there is no way to determine just which specific ancestor any common segments of DNA came from.Chris Chesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-62964452533480498512018-06-14T23:48:45.230-04:002018-06-14T23:48:45.230-04:00Thank you for clearing this up, Chris. So Ambrose...Thank you for clearing this up, Chris. So Ambrose does not descend from any of George's children's sons. I guess what has me confused is if he has the surname Brewer and he doesn't match the Y-DNA profile for the George Brewer folks, then that would pretty much have to mean he was adopted into the family, then, right?<br /><br />Is it possible from autosomal test results to find if there was a connection through a daughter, or are those tests worse than a crap shoot? It does seem I have building evidence from my matches that my connection through Sarah Frances Brewer connects to this family. That'd have to be a seperate project for someone else to start, though, for those of us who are descended from female Brewers.<br /><br />Also, thanks for pointing me to Foy and back to David. I'll follow up with them any questions I may have left.Chesirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09819014636416592643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-33763136817793210022018-06-14T07:20:38.456-04:002018-06-14T07:20:38.456-04:00Direct male descendants of Ambrose Brewer DO NOT m...Direct male descendants of Ambrose Brewer DO NOT match direct male descendants of George Brewer. There are sub-groups of both of these colonial period men within the Brewer DNA Project. Descendants of Ambrose Brewer test for haplogroup R-M269, while those descended from George Brewer test for I-M253 (Y-Chromosome testing). So, while there is no common genetic male ancestor of the descendants of Ambrose Brewer and George Brewer, it is believed by some, that there is a "familial" relationship between the two. That is to say that Ambrose is somehow related to George Brewer, but not as a direct male descendant, perhaps instead as a descendant through a granddaughter, or perhaps simply adopted into the family of a son or grandson of George Brewer. The Brewers of the southern states are a difficult group to research. Foy Varner is the expert on the Ambrose Brewer descendants and a co-administrator at the Brewer DNA Project, while David V. Brewer is the co-administrator focused on the descendants of George Brewer.Chris Chesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-77758694354125007172018-06-14T02:20:46.162-04:002018-06-14T02:20:46.162-04:00A bit of follow-up. I recently contacted an Ances...A bit of follow-up. I recently contacted an Ancestry match for whom the Brewers appear to be the only place we match. She traces her line back up to Ambrose Brewer (b.1573 Brunswick Co, VA). and then down to a son Joab, and then Isham, and then Anderson, and finally a Nancy (b.1872) before she marries into another line and the name is lost. Ambrose's son Joab ends up in Tenessee where this branch of the family continues down to Nancy. Specifically, the family stays in Hancock County, TN.<br /><br />If I'm connected to her only through the Brewers, than the only way we could be connected is if Ambrose is a grandson of George and Sarah as the legend goes. Ambrose would have to be from one of Sarah and George's sons, and the story is that he's Howell Brewer's son. Howell would have been the brother of my presumed Nicholas (Sr.).<br /><br />So, another piece of evidence. It appears that a lot of what's been "lost" may simply be the Brewers producing a lot more females than males. It makes it significantly harder to trace, sure, but it may be that the only way we eventually be able to connect all the Brewers is through simple autosomal DNA tests.<br /><br />So, I guess my questions to go along with my personal ones above is whether the folks in the Ambrose Y-DNA project match closely with the folks in the Lanier-Brewer project? How much progress has been made in connecting the Southern-decended Brewers to George and Sarah? It seems the working story with the projects is that Ambrose is actually in some way descended more directly from the Northern Brouwers, but is working story of the DNA or family lore? It seems to be that if we're working mostly on family lore that there is much more evidence tying Ambrose with the Lanier-Brewer line than any other group between Ambrose born in the same county George and Sarah lived in, and then the subsequent migration south and west.<br /><br />Anyway, it'd be interesting to discuss this with the leaders of the research focusing on the Brunswick County Brewers.Chesirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09819014636416592643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-40527418010818365632018-06-10T07:29:53.089-04:002018-06-10T07:29:53.089-04:00I'm really curious if anyone in the project ha...I'm really curious if anyone in the project has claimed ancestry from Nicholas? He's the one I believe I'm descended from, but after reading more it's basically a shot in the dark.<br /><br />As far as I can tell from all of the sites, no one seems to know where the Brewers in Georgia came from, except that everyone seems to havea story back to the Brewer-Lanier line begun in Brunswick County, VA. Anyone male descendants from the Georgia line take tests for this? Unfortunately, I'm through a female Brewer (Sarah Frances Brewer, b. 1837, Morgan County, GA). Sarah was the daughter of Drury Brewer, Jr. and grandaughter of Drury Medlock Brewer Sr., both of Georgia, though Sr. was from the coast (Brunswick, Glynn County, GA) and was born in 1779.<br /><br />But, I wonder if perhaps the Brunswick, Glynn County is a typo and maybe Drury Sr. was actually from Brunswick County, VA, which would make this connection more likely? It'd be nice to know if the two Drurys are in anyway related to the Lanier-Brewer line or are a totally different English set of Brewers so then I could look elsewhere.Chesirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09819014636416592643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-84353340955947829582017-10-17T12:41:45.596-04:002017-10-17T12:41:45.596-04:00Thank you so much for clarifying this Brewer line....Thank you so much for clarifying this Brewer line. Oliver Brewer (George's son) is my 7th great grandfather. I appreciate all of your hard work. Thank you..<br /> Shaylin Krone HeckmanAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16013218548109355165noreply@blogger.com