Page 24 - The Ancestry of Francis Bryan (1770-1863)

And there it was......
On the opposite page is a chart of the connection between Margaret Bryan's children by her first husband, Joseph Love, to me, a descendant of Francis Bryan. And on the next page after that is a chart from my sister's ThruLines.
My siblings and I have autosomal DNA matching to all three of Margaret Bryan's children by her first marriage. Between my two siblings and myself I have found matches to 6 descendants of Joseph Love and Margaret Bryan. The amount of centimorgans (cM)
of the matches is small, from 7 to 11 cM. This is to be expected from such distant cousins.
Paper trails are all verified, but not always correct. On page 13 I will describe the mistakes that some of my matches have made on their trees as they appear on these two charts.
So, we are connected. And I currently cannot find any other possible pathway that connects these matches to any other branch of my tree. Without the paper trail I would not necessarily trust these matches.
And...as I was in the middle of discovering Margaret Bryan, something serendipitous occurred. I was able to recruit another descendant of Francis Bryan to assist me in my research, Andrea Headley Stine, a fourth cousin once removed. She has been able to verify the findings that I have presented above with her DNA matches on Ancestry.com. She also has matches to the descendants of Margaret Bryan and Joseph Love.
I would estimate that sometime between 1758 and 1769 Margaret married Francis’ father, as Francis was born in 1770. My guess is that she married him closer to 1769. DNA suggests that Francis Bryan and his sister, Peggy Bryan Alexander are half siblings. I therefore believe that Margaret Strode Bryan is not the mother of Peggy Bryan.Peggy Bryan's birth date has always been written as 1771. If so, then she married at 14. This was not uncommon in those days.
Since Ancestry.com DNA suggests that Francis and Peggy are not full, but rather half siblings and Margaret is the mother of Francis but not Peggy, I have come to believe that Peggy was born before, not after Francis. There is further evidence later in the book to suggest that this makes the most sense because of Francis' relationship to two of his younger brothers.There is no written documentation of Peggy’s birth date, nor is there a headstone reflecting any actual date of birth. I now place Peggy's birth date around 1768.
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