My Golden line (R1b R-M269 R-U106 R-Z405 R-DF98 R-S18823 Y700: R-FGC20605 R-FGC20581 R-BY103979 R-BY61503)[1]Learn more Golden yDNA going back 5,000 years: https://goldengenealogy.com/wngb/our-dna-genetic-history/ — How did we get here? Where did we start? DNA and yDNA matching is helping stitch together that history. There are yet some loose threads.
!! If it were not for an unsourced Warren Family History then I would never have looked at Albemarle / Amherst / Goochland County, Virginia as a starting point for our Goldens or as the source of the 1760s branching that caused our Goldens to end up in Alabama, Kentucky and South Carolina >> certainly there was no written history to indicate kinship. DNA helped solve that puzzle.
>> General timeline: At some time prior to 1690 there was a Thomas Golden / Goalder family living in Middlesex VA area. After marriage in 1708 to Eliza Goare / Gore they moved to nearby Charles City County. By 1755 they moved on to the Goochland / Albemarle County area west of Richmond VA — this was a short stay as by late 1750s and by 1762 at latest the Golden family began branching in different directions. There were still Goldens in Albemarle in 1790 census (Archibald and Abraham Golden > no claimed descendants).
— My Thomas Golden Jr branch went to Newberry SC by 1760. Children Nellie (?) and William Golden. Probably migrated with the Rev James Warren family that settled on Cloud’s Creek. Nellie Golden married William (Charles William?) Warren (PNC
1738–1807) in 1762 while still supposedly in Virginia, indicating that she may not have migrated with possible father Thomas Golden, already in Newberry SC by 1760.[2]Nellie Golden married to William Warren : was she a daughter or niece of Thomas Golden? We know that Thomas had two children by 1762, names unknown. There was most definitely a secondary Golden … Continue reading There are still Goldens in Newberry today, but most resettled in Pickens SC area or moved off to Millegeville GA where Goldens are still plentiful in 2024.
— William Melton Golden and Mary Elizabeth ‘Polly’ Turner may have migrated with Thomas Golden but settled further west (briefly!) in Wilkes Co GA and then continued soon after to Madison Co, AL. Many Goldens there today.
— William Golden and Mary Elizabeth ‘Polly’ Maupin, parents to Alabama’s William Melton Golden, continued on to settle in Madison Co, KY. Many Goldens are in the Madison County area today.
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| ↑1 | Learn more Golden yDNA going back 5,000 years: https://goldengenealogy.com/wngb/our-dna-genetic-history/ |
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| ↑2 | Nellie Golden married to William Warren : was she a daughter or niece of Thomas Golden? We know that Thomas had two children by 1762, names unknown. There was most definitely a secondary Golden migration from Virginia to nearby Wilkes County, GA — although some family genealogies indicate this was really to South Carolina, no area specified. Thomas Golden could have left some family behind as he settled at Newberry and a daughter (Nellie Golden) subsequently married a William Warren that followed on to Newberry, Ninety Six District, settling on Cloud’s Creek. No records known to exist that finetunes this timeline. |