Happy Saint Patrick’s Day

My Irish Ancestry

Brown/Sanford/Parsons/Maben
Roberts/Scott

My Ancestry – 18% Irish, 82% “Great Britain”

I grew up being told I was English, Irish, and French. And modern DNA testing results have confirmed that.  Ancestry indicates that I am 18 percent Irish and the rest “Great Britain” which included England, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, and part of Germany.

I have discovered very few immigrant ancestors among my Ancestors. Only two that I know of were born in Ireland.  The first one is a sixth great-grandfather on my Brown line.

John Maben (1753-1813) was born in County Antrim, Northern Ireland in 1753[i]. He came to America and fought in the American Revolution. He served with Capt. Abner Hawley and Col. Peter Van Ness in the 9^th Regt., Albany County Militia[ii]. In 1781, he married Sally Pierce in Connecticut. He died in Lexington, Greene County, New York in 1813.

Interestingly enough Slemish, in County Antrim, is the location that Saint Patrick was a slave for seven years.

Descendants of John Maben include:

•             Robert Maben (1781-1843)
•             Deborah Buel Maben (1805-1874)
•             Mary Electa Parsons (1828-1888)
•             Marion Sanford (1846-1895)
•             Arthur Durwood Brown (1869-1928)
•             Richard Earl Brown (1903-1990)
•             My mother (Living)
•             Me

My second Irish ancestor is a seventh great-grandfather on my Roberts line.

James Scott (1719-1783) was born in Northern Ireland in 1719. His wife’s name was Ester and he died in Virginia in 1783. I have not researched him in depth, consequently, I know little else about him.

Descendants of James Scott include:

•             William Jarvis Scott (____-____)
•             John Scott (1784-1855)
•             Samuel Kinkade Scott (1809-____)
•             William Hunt Scott (1834-1903)
•             Samuel Vaden Scott (1863-1931)
•             Clora Dell Scott (1883-1945)
•             Bert Allen Roberts (1903-1949)
•             Hugh Eugene Roberts (1926-1997)
•             Me

Today, Saint Patrick’s Day, 2019, I raise a glass and toast my Irish ancestry.

ENDNOTES

[i] It is possible that John Maben was born in the town of Antrim in County Antrim.
[ii] Daughters of the American Revolution, “Ancestor Search”, DAR, Maben, John – Patriot: A072838.