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Here are the mysteries we are investigating so far with Y-Chromosome DNA testing.
To answer these questions, we need several Pitcock/Pidcock derived surname males per question to guard against unsuspected anomalies like lost generations in the genealogical record, adoption, and erroneous paternity. Please spread the word. If you select the Y-25 test, your DNA results may help solve more than one of these puzzles.
Financial sponsorship, no matter how small, can help underwrite the cost of kits for individuals who qualify genetically and have a willingness to participate but lack the discretionary funds. You can direct your contributions as incentives to help find individuals needed to answer specific mysteries by clicking here.
1. Are all Pidcocks/Pitcocks and families with similarly derived surnames related?
Minimal Test: 12 marker Y DNA kit
Commentary: Show | Hide Results: No
2. Are Derbyshire Pidcocks of Anglo-Saxon descent ?
Minimal Test: 12 marker Y DNA suggests Haplogroup
Commentary: Show | Hide Results: Yes... but Nottinghamshire Pidcocks are of Celt descent!
3. Are the 3 clusters of Pidcocks in Derbyshire, England: the Darley Dale/Bakewell cluster, the Matlock cluster and the Ashbourne/Wirksworth cluster related?
Minimal Test: 25 marker Y DNA kit
Commentary: Show | Hide Results: ?
4. Did John Pidcock, who married the widow Mary Mee (nee Bradley) at Ratcliffe-on-soar, Nottingham on 17th November 1701 belong to the Derbyshire Pidcocks?
Minimal Test: 12 marker Y DNA kit, may choose to upgrade to 25 later
Commentary: Show | Hide Results: No
5. Is the oral tradition that the Bucks Co. PA, Pidcock line is of Scots-Irish ancestry correct?
Minimal Test: 25 marker Y DNA
Commentary: Show | Hide Results: ?
6. Are Pitcocks and Pidcocks who trace their roots to early 18th century Pennsylvania related?
Minimal Test: may choose to upgrade to 25 later
Commentary: Show | Hide Results: No, but Pitcocks may descend from William Pidcock who arrived 1679 Burlington NJ on the Friends Adventure.
7. John Pidcock, who settled along the Delaware in Buck Co, PA before 1680, does not appear on any ship passenger lists. Was he a mariner who returned temporarily to England in 1684 to settle his affairs ?
Minimal Test: 25 marker Y DNA kit
Commentary: Show | Hide Results: ?
8. At the turn of the 17th century John, Emanuel, Benjamin, Robert and William Pidcock lived along the Delaware in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Are these men related?
Minimal Test: 25 marker Y DNA kit
Commentary: Show | Hide Results: Emanuel & John & William appear unrelated.
9. Jonathan Pidcock (1729-1812) married Ankey. Was Ankey a Lenape Indian or was Ankey his wife's maiden name?
Minimal Test: mitachondrial DNA kit
Commentary: Show | Hide Results: ?
10. John Pidcock emigrated to Ohio in 1812 when he was 15 years old. Did he emigrate with his older brother Gilbert ?
Minimal Test: 25 marker Y DNA kit, may choose to upgrade to 37 later
Commentary: Show | Hide Results: ?
11. Did the ancestors of William Hazelgrove Pidcock (1832-1906) of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire derive somehow from the Derbyshire area where more Pidcocks are prevalent ? We seek male Pidcock descendents of William Hazelgrove Pidcock's uncle, William Pidcock (1789-1825) who married Anne Burton in 1813 at Mansfield to take the test.
Minimal Test: 12 marker Y DNA kit, may choose to upgrade to 25 later
Commentary: Show | Hide Results: Probably not
12. William Hazelgrove Pidcock (1832-1906) had 4 wives and 33 children. Were they all his?
Minimal Test: 25 marker Y DNA kit, may choose to upgrade to 37 later
Commentary: Show | Hide Results: Yes, so far male descendents of 3 of the 4 wives have tested and match.
13. Are Yorkshire & Lancashire Pidcocks related to Derbyshire Pidcocks?
Minimal Test: 25 marker Y DNA kit, may choose to upgrade to 37 later
Commentary: Show | Hide Results: ?
14. Can we recognize different migrations of our family & trace their paths across the North American and Australian continents?
Minimal Test: 25 marker Y DNA kit, may choose to upgrade to 37 later
Commentary: Show | Hide Results: ?
15. Your personal family puzzle.
Minimal Test: 12 marker Y DNA kit to identify your Pitcock/Pidcock family; 25 markers to determine the probability of a common ancestor within genealogical time frame; may choose to upgrade to 37 later
Commentary: Show | Hide Results: ?
16. Could Anthony Pidcock, bachelor, who died in 1658 at sea on the "John and Thomas" been enroute to Pennsylvania and been accompanied by Bucks Co. PA settler, John Pidcock or his father?
Minimal Test: 12 marker Y DNA kit to identify your Pitcock/Pidcock family
Commentary: Show | Hide Results: ?
17. Could the first Pidcock in England have been a Flemish Wool Merchant living in the late 13th century?
Minimal Test: Flemish descent with any surname and 25 marker DNA matching any Pidcock/Pitcock DNA pattern.
Commentary: Show | Hide Results: ?
18. Were the three earliest Darley Dale Pidcocks mentioned in the Parrish records: Henry married 1541, John married 1558, and Anthony married ~ 1562, related?
Minimal Test: 12 markers would confirm the family, 25 markers would help trace it
Commentary: Show | Hide Results: ?
19. From which son of Jonathan Pidcock (grandson of the 1680s PA trader) does Donald C. Pidcock Jr. descend?
Minimal Test: 37 markers
Commentary: Show | Hide Results: ?
20. How does Gary Lee Johnson from North Carolina fit in with the Pidcock line ?
Minimal Test: Descendant Charles Moe has tested extensively -contact administrator for specific tests
Commentary: Show | Hide Results: ?