Notes – Scoggins and Scroggins

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A Probable History of the Golden Family
of Newberry, South Carolina Since 1761
Updated 2024.12.26

 

The individuals below may appear in your DNA matches. 

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There are two distinct Scoggins and Scroggins families that are not related. They have different origins.

I track both families in my tree as both appear within DNA matches among all branches of our Golden family. Genealogic kinship to both is also possible via who, when and where.

Let it also be said that some Scoggin(s) and Scroggin(s) families do have the same origin. The name has morphed both directions over time among family members. ^[1]Morphing of the family name from Scoggins to Scroggins and visa versa has occured across many branches of the family. Example: Wayne LeRoy Scroggins, 1930-2006, descends from a Scoggins line who … Continue reading

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Most Recent Direction Connection

Bill Golden: DNA testing indicates that I am personally descendant on both my maternal and paternal line to the Scoggins family of York County, South Carolina. Am most recently kin via my maternal grandfather Brainard McDonald Percival (1904-1990), whose mother was Sarah Jane Scoggins Percival (1877–1959).

Consistently confusing are the clues via DNA matches known to be genealogically from my paternal line but identifying as of maternal line origin. It is certain that Scoggins DNA or some shared DNA inherited by both Scoggins and Goldens entered our bloodlines before 1750. All of our family lines are out of the Virginia and southern Maryland area from the late 1600s onward.

Scoggins Intermarriage from before 1800

Sarah Frances Golden (1796–1819) born at Newberry, South Carolina married to Peter Elijah Funderburgh (Funderburk) (1790–1872) has shared DNA matches with three or more Scoggins lines.^[2]See WNG038 for these DNA matches.

Isaac Golden line: known to have intermarried with the Scoggins of York County, SC in the early 1800s. Other Golden descendants of various William and Nelly Golden lines also show Scoggins DNA matches.

The probable intersection of DNA connectivity is probably with the Scoggins-Bates line of John Scoggins, 1752–1835, and wife Sarah Walker, 1762–1828, both of Virginia having settled in the York County, SC area. My maternal grandfather of the Scoggins line came from York County, SC.

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THESIS: There are multiple paths for Scroggin DNA matches to appear within our Golden family lines across branches that went their separate ways as far back as the 1780s.

• A primary path is via a shared Kirby-Tarrant descendant lineage: David Leonard Kirby, 1738–1811, and Rachel Elizabeth Tarrant, 1739–1811. Their daughter Sarah Ann “Sally” Kirby, 1769-1837, married Humphrey John Scroggins Jr, 1763–1845.
• Secondarily, there are DNA matches with kindred Scroggins upstream and back in time before the marriage of Kirby and Tarrant. Multiple matches exist via children of several wives of George S. Scroggin (Jackson, Russell), c1755 Halifax, Virginia, and passed in 1827 at Jackson County, Georgia, USA.

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Some Scoggin(s) and Scroggin(s) families appear to have the same origin. The name has morphed both directions over time among family members. ^[3]Example: Wayne LeRoy Scroggins, 1930-2006, descends from a Scoggins line who surname morphed from Scoggin to Scroggin in 1859.

However, there are indeed two distinct Scoggins and Scroggins families that are not related. They have different origins.

I track both families in my tree as both appear within DNA matches among all branches of our Golden family.

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DNA matches with Scroggins are plentiful. How and when our families connected is somewhere in the 5th-8th cousin range.

DNA matches with direct lineage Scroggins exists across almost all Golden lines descendant from William and Nelly Golden in the late 1700s.

There is one particular line that DNA matches seem to associate with, the family of Benjamin Rice, 1792–1857, and Margaret (Peggy) Scroggin, 1792–1859.

Parents of Margaret Scroggin were Humphrey John Scroggin II, 1763–1845, and Sarah Ann (Sallie) Kirby, 1764–1837. Both the Scroggin and Kirby line are probably contributory to our DNA admixture.

• Parents of Humphrey John Scroggin were George Scroggins, 1692–1769, and Elizabeth Warren, 1690–1750, from William and Mary Parish, Charles County in southern Maryland (SOMD). SOMD is far to drive by car from the Upper Neck of Virginia, which was one of the earliest areas settled in both Maryland and Virginia, but one area to the other by boat across the Potomac River is no more than five miles.
• Parents of Sarah Ann (Sallie) Kirby were David Leonard Kirby, 1738–1811, and Rachel Elizabeth Tarrant, 1739–1811. Tarrant family DNA matches are abundant across Golden lines. Author of this family history, Bill Golden is a direct descendant of the Tarrants with his 6th great-grandparents being Leonard Douthitt Tarrant, 1714–1791, and Mary Rose Hargrove, 1719–1755. ^[4]Descendency of Bill Golden to the Tarrants: Leonard Douthitt Tarrant ++10 1714-1791 … 6th great-grandfather James M. Tarrant ++7 Rev War VA Militia Capt 1753-1840 … Son of Leonard … Continue reading

 

TIMELINE

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~~~ 1660: Born at Pyckyawaxon or Charles, Maryland, George Scroggins, c1660–1697, married to Susanna Lowe, 1660–1700. Scroggin’s parents are unknown. Suggested parents are George Scroggin, 1630–1700 and Susan Hess, 1630–1700.

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~~~ 1763: WNGolden descendant lines have DNA matches that converge with the family of Jonah H. Scoggins, 1763–1845, and Anna Hightower, 1765–1850, and even more diverse Golden lines (pre-1800 branches) are DNA matches with Johah’s parents: Nicholas Scoggins, 1741–1826, and Elizabeth “Betty” Prince, 1744–1778.

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