Discovery of Swiss Immigrant ancestors On My African American Paternal Grandmother's Side

 I just recently discovered that my paternal grandmother Mary Alice Gaines was a descendant of Swiss immigrants that lived in New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina in the early 18th Century. 

my Genealogical Ancestry

I was born 1971 in San Francisco, California.

PATERNAL SIDE:

father Lawrence Nolan Scott born 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana

paternal grandfather Nolan Scott born 1909 in Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

paternal grandfather's father Ivory Scott born 1891 in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

paternal grandfather's paternal grandfather William Daigle: African American born 1866 in Assumption Parish, Louisiana with other roots in District of Columbia - Y DNA haplogroup: E-BY101982 (a E2-M85 haplogroup)

paternal grandfather's paternal grandmother Maria Lilly: African American born 1869 in Assumption Parish, Louisiana with other roots in North Carolina

paternal grandfather's mother Carrie Johnson born 1895 in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

paternal grandfather's maternal grandfather Harvey Johnson: African American slave born 1857 in Southern Louisiana with other roots in Missouri

paternal grandfather's maternal grandmother Rosanna Hester: African American slave born 1864 in Lafourche Parish with other roots in Alabama and Virginia

paternal grandmother Mary Alice Gaines born 1913 in Morgan City, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana

paternal grandmother's father Lawrence Gaines born 1886 in Napoleonville, Assumption Parish, Louisiana

paternal grandmother's paternal grandfather Willis Gaines: African American slave born 1857 in Louisiana with other roots in Virginia and Georgia

paternal grandmother's paternal grandmother Jeanette Riley: African American slave born 1858 in Louisiana with other roots in South Carolina and Kentucky

paternal grandmother's mother Priscilla Cross born 1894 in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana

paternal grandmother's maternal grandfather James Cross: slave son of a European American man of English, Acadian (French in Nova Scotia), German, Polish, Danish ancestry and African American woman born 1853 in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana with Colonial roots in Southern Louisiana, Virginia, and North Carolina as well as Acadia

paternal grandmother's maternal grandmother Mary Johnson: African American slave born 1854 in St Mary Parish, Louisiana....Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup:L3e1

MATERNAL SIDE:

mother Cynthia Renee Andrews born 1954 in Oakland, California

maternal grandfather Everett Joseph Andrews born 1935 in Bryte, Yolo County, California

maternal grandfather's father Peter Andrade born 1904 in Broderick, Yolo County, California

maternal grandfather's paternal grandfather Denis Andrade: Cape Verdean (Portuguese and West African) immigrant born in 1873

maternal grandfather's paternal grandmother Dominga Gomes: Cape Verdean (Portuguese and West African) immigrant born in 1883

maternal grandfather's mother Marian Isabelle Ocacio born 1921 in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California

maternal grandfather's maternal grandfather Jose Juan Ocasio-Afanador: Puerto Rican (Spanish, Taino, and West African) born 1881 in Utuado, Puerto Rico 

maternal grandfather's maternal grandmother Maria Pereira-de Frietas: Hawaiian daughter of Madeiran (Portuguese with some West African) immigrants born in 1889....Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup:L0a2a2

maternal grandmother Beverly Floy Walker born 1934 in San Francisco, California 

maternal grandmother's father Harold George Walker born 1914 in Milton, Umatilla, Oregon

maternal grandmother's paternal grandfather John Franklin Walker: European American of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German ancestry born 1881 in Drywood, Bourbon County, Kansas with Colonial roots in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York with other roots in other roots in Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama....Y DNA haplogroup: J-Z37545 (a J2-L70 haplogroup)

maternal grandmother's paternal grandmother Floy Mae Kasinger: European American of English, German, Scottish, Swiss, Irish, Welsh, Dutch, Frisian ancestry born 1893 in Millersville, Cape Girardeau, Missouri with colonial roots in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, New Jersey as well as Bermuda with other roots in Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Illinois

maternal grandmother's mother Ruth Rosenthal born 1913 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska

maternal grandmother's maternal grandfather Max Rosenthal: Ashkenazi Jewish immigrant born 1886 in Romania.....Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup: K1a1ba

maternal grandmother's maternal grandmother Rachel Hosias: Ashkenazi Jewish immigrant born 1888 in Courland in the area of the Russian Empire that became Latvia in 1918 ....Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup: J1c14

My Chromosome painting

 My DNA is phased with my mother's DNA.  Top chromosomes are maternal and bottom chromosomes are paternal.  Blue/Green segments are European. Red segments are Sub Saharan African. Yellow segments are Indigenous American. The orange segment is Filipino&Austronesian. The Purple segment is Anatolian. 

In regards to the segments of similar color on paternal Chromosome 9, the shorter segment that is orange is Filipino/Austronesian that a French man B. Portier with a paternal grandmother born in Madagascar matches me on, and the longer segment that is yellow is Indigenous American that some African Americans match me on. B. Portier's MyHeritage family tree shows that his paternal grandmother had royal ancestry in Madagascar that included Malagasy. My Combined Filipino&Austronesian/Southern East African Chromosome 9 segment is connected to a Colonial mixed African/European American Turner family in Marion County, South Carolina. John Turner (born in 1730s or 1740s) was son of his owner English American Thomas Weathersbe and an African American slave. His wife Patience (born in 1730s or 1740s) was the daughter of a half Sub Saharan African/half European man and a European American woman named Rachel Smith, and she had Irish ancestry.  Patience bought her already husband John from Thomas Weathersbe in 1769 in Halifax County, North Carolina.  Some of John and Patience's children married into European American families which led to many European American descendants with some of them showing up as my paternal DNA relative matches. There have been rumors of Native American ancestry in the Turner family. Some of my paternal Indigenous American chromosome 9 segment African American matches have no Louisianan ancestral roots. One of them has Native American ancestors in her family tree, and she has no Louisianan ancestral roots. 

From checking DNA relative matches at GEDmatch, I have determined that my paternal chromosome segments that came from my Acadian ancestors are paternal European Chromosome 5 segment, paternal European segment at the end of paternal Chromosome 8, paternal European Chromosome 15 segment, and paternal European Chromosome 20 segment. My paternal grandmother Mary Alice Gaines' maternal grandfather James Cross was the son of African American slave Laura Woods (born in Virginia) and European American James P. Cross (born on Orange Grove Plantation in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana) who was the son of English American plantation/slave owner Benjamin Cross (born in Gates County, North Carolina) and 3/4 Acadian Anastasia Bourgeois (born in Plattenville, Assumption Parish, Louisiana).  Benjamin and Anastasia's daughter Priscilla was married to Charles M. Gillis who owned a sugar plantation with slaves in Lafourche Parish.  After being freed from slavery in his birthplace Lafourche Parish, 3rd Great Grandma Laura's husband Chas Boney (later became Bonnie Barrow after 1870 Census taken) relocated with his wife, their children, and 2nd Great Grandpa James to St. Mary Parish where 2nd Great Grandpa James met and married my 2nd Great Grandmother Mary Johnson. Born in Morgan City, Grandma Mary was a 3rd generation St Mary Parishioner with her mother Priscilla and grandmother Mary born in St. Mary Parish. 

 The Acadians are so endogamous that all people with Acadian ancestry are related through at least one 17th Century French couple that settled in what is now known as Nova Scotia, Canada. Everybody with Acadian ancestry is his/her own cousin multiple times. Many Acadians married non-Acadians in Canada and United States. 

My Autosomal One-To-One Comparison with Aunt Carrie who is my father's maternal half sister.

She matches me on some of my Sub Saharan African segments and European segments, and one of my Indigenous American segments.

Even though Aunt Carrie is African American with over 80% Sub Saharan African, our longest matching segment is my entire paternal Acadian-matching European segment on Chromosome 5. She also matches my entire paternal Acadian-matching European segment on Chromosome 15.  Therefore, I know that those paternal Acadian-matching European segments came from Grandma Mary and that she had Acadian ancestry. Aunt Carrie doesn't match me on my paternal Acadian matching-European segments on Chromosomes 8 and 20, and so I don't know that they came from Grandma Mary. They may have come from my paternal Grandfather Nolan Scott who was an African American born in Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish. He was a 4th generation Lafourche Parishioner. Both his parents Ivory Scott and Carrie Johnson were born in Lafourche Parish. Great Grandma Carrie's mother Rosanna Hester and maternal grandmother Therese Palmer were born in Lafourche Parish.  Both of Great Grandpa Ivory's parents William Scott (originally Daigle) and Maria Lilly were born in Assumption Parish which was where Grandma Mary's father Lawrence Gaines was born. Both of 2nd Great Grandma Maria's parents Patrick Lilly and Margaret Caldwell were born in Assumption Parish.  According to 1880 Census, my 3rd Great Grandparents Patrick and Margaret along with their children were neighbors of Great Grandpa Lawrence's parents Willis Gaines (born in Louisiana) and Jennette Riley (born in Louisiana) as well as Jennette's parents Edward Riley (born in South Carolina) and Daurtyand (born in Kentucky) and Jennette's siblings in District 099 (Sixth Ward, 7th Ward Town of Labadieville) in Assumption Parish.  The Lilly, Gaines, and Riley families are listed on the same page.  The Lilly family was listed lines 47-50 on page 22 and then continued  lines 1-3 on page 23.  The Gaines and Riley families lived next to each other.  They were listed lines 42 - 49 on page 23. My Lilly ancestral family clearly knew my Gaines and Riley ancestral families. I wonder if they were related. They even shared names in common.  Clarence was the first name of both Grandpa Nolan's paternal half brother and Great Grandpa Lawrence's brother. Ivory was the name of both Grandpa Nolan's father and Uncle Clarence Gaines' son.  Both Great Grandpa Ivory and Great Grandpa Lawrence had sisters named Pinky. Alberta was the name of Grandpa Nolan's paternal half sister and Great Grandpa Lawrence's sister. 

Aunt Carrie also matches me on my entire paternal European Chromosome 4 segment that British and Irish people are matching on at MyHeritage, and so those segments come from Grandma Mary. She also matches my entire paternal European Chromosome 6 segment and my entire paternal Indigenous American Chromosome 6 segment, and the segments are right next to each other. Therefore, Grandma Mary had some Native American ancestry. She doesn't match me on my paternal Indigenous American segments on Chromosomes 5 and 9, and so I don't know they came from Grandma Mary. They may have come from Grandpa Nolan.  Aunt Carrie also matches me on my paternal European segment at beginning of Chromosome 7, my entire paternal European segment at beginning of Chromosome 8, and my paternal European segment on Chromosome 16. Therefore those segments come from Grandma Mary.  She doesn't match me on my paternal European segments on Chromosome 1, 2, the end of Chromosome 4, and 17. Therefore, I am not sure if they came from Grandma Mary. They may have come from Grandpa Nolan. 

There is a European American woman named Cori that matches Aunt Carrie and me on the European Chromosome 6 segment at GEDmatch, FamilyTreeDNA, and MyHeritage.  She is also an AncestryDNA match to Aunt Carrie and me. I was checking AncestryDNA matches that she shares with Aunt Carrie, and I noticed that they are sharing matches that descend from Kinsey families.  

I extensively checked out Aunt Carrie's DNA matches that she shares with Cori, and I noticed that there was significant matching involve Kinsey. I checked out all of Aunt Carrie's matches that have Kinsey ancestors. I found that Aunt Carrie has 60 AncestryDNA matches (59 of them are European Americans) that have Kinsey ancestors. 44 of them descend from John Ripley Kinsey (1698 - 1752), and they include 39 that descend from John's son Joseph and 5 that descend from John's son Absalom. 

John Ripley Kinsey (originally Kuenzli) was born in Bern, Switzerland around 1698. He died in Craven County, North Carolina in 1752. His descendants owned slaves in Craven County and Jones County. The Kinseys were not an ancestral family on my European American paternal 3rd Great Grandfather James P. Cross' side, and so one of my African American 3rd great grandparents on Grandma Mary's side descended from this Colonial European American slaveowning family. John's parents and three of his five siblings were killed in the Sept 22, 1711 massacre that was committed by the Southern Tuscarora, Pamplico, Cotchechneys, Cores, Mattamucskeets, and Matchepungoes who attacked settlers at several locations in and around the city of Bath, North Carolina. Hundreds of settlers were killed, and many more were driven off.

I checked out any MyHeritage DNA relative matches in Switzerland that Aunt Carrie has, and she has two.  One of them happens to triangulate with Aunt Carrie, Cori, and two Kinsey family descendant matches J.L. Woodward and L. Duran on Chromosome 6.  J.L. Woodward is a descendant of 1800s couple David Harrison Gross and Olivia Kinsey.  L. Duran is a descendant of John Ripley Kinsey's son Absalom Kinsey and Ridley Hobbs. 

I can conclude that there was Swiss ancestry on both my grandmothers' sides. My maternal grandmother Beverly Floy Walker descended from a Neuschwanger family from Switzerland on the side of her paternal 2nd Great Grandfather Peter Francis Hartle whose ancestry was German Pennsylvanian.  My maternal 8th Great Grandfather Ulrich Neuschwanger was born in 1692 in Switzerland. He immigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 21, 1742.  He died before 1752 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  

The Kinsey ancestral family wasn't an ancestral family of my European American paternal 3rd Great Grandfather James P. Cross. This has to be an ancestral family of one of my African American slave 3rd great grandparents on Grandma Mary's side. All my other paternal 3rd great grandparents were African American slaves in Louisiana.

Through my previous checking of DNA relative matches involving my European segments on paternal Chromosomes 4 and 10, I discovered that there are other Colonial European American ancestral families that were not my 3rd Great Grandfather James P. Cross' ancestors. Therefore, they had to be ancestors of at least one of my enslaved African American paternal 3rd great grandparents. Aunt Carrie matches me on my European paternal Chromosome 4 segment, and so some of these Colonial European American ancestral families were Grandma Mary's ancestors. She doesn't match me on on my European paternal Chromosome 10 segment, and so there is a possibility that some of these Colonial European American families are on my paternal grandfather Nolan Scott's side. One of Grandpa Nolan's paternal grandmother Maria Lilly's sisters Elizabeth was recorded as being mulatto in 1910 Census.

I have European American DNA relative Chromosome 10 segment matches at GEDmatch, FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritage and AncestryDNA. Two of them are descendants of Colonial British Virginian couple Henry Pleasant Jeter (1744-1821) and Elizabeth Bell (1746-1833).   J. Swanson is Henry and Elizabeth's 4th Great Granddaughter, and C. Overstreet is Henry and Elizabeth's 6th Great Grandson . J. Swanson and C. Overstreet are 5th Cousins, 2nd Removed.  Henry Pleasant Jeter was a militia officer with the rank Lieutenant, Revolutionary War Patriot and a slaveowner.

Aunt Carrie and I have European American DNA relative Chromosome 4 segment matches at GEDmatch, FamilyTreeDNA, and MyHeritage. She and I also have Chromosome 4 matches in the United Kingdom and Ireland at MyHeritage. There are none at AncestryDNA due to the Timber algorithm which supposedly removes so-called pileups. Two of our FamilyTreeDNA European American DNA relative Chromosome 4 segment matches named J.B. Martin and S.Lewallen are 4th Cousins with both of them being 3rd Great Grandsons of Anderson Harbin Payne (1827 - 1905) and Nancy Jane Weaver (1833 - 1883) , and both of them were born in Georgia.  S. Lewallen's family tree has Anderson's parents as John W. Payne (1788-1880) and Julia Hall (1802-1885), and they were born in Georgia with parents born in Virginia. S. Lewallen's family tree has Nancy's parents as Wiley Greene Weaver (b.1807) and Nancy Allen (d.1844), and they were born in Georgia with parents born in Virginia. Their ancestors were in Virginia in the early 1600s.  Other ancestral surnames are Echols, Sturgill, Jones, Yancy, Hendricks, Ashley, Holcomb, Evans, Cave, McDaniel, and Robinson.

English, French, and Swiss weren't the only European ancestries that my father Lawrence Nolan Scott had.

My 4th Great Grandmother Anastasia's father was Michel Jerome Bourgeois Jr who was a first generation Southern Louisianan  son of expelled Acadians Michel Jerome Bourgeois Sr and Anne Landry who took refuge in Saint-Domingue. My 4th Great Grandmother Anastasia's mother was Marie Desiree Stubens who was born in an Acadian refugee camp in Chantenay, Nantes, France and was the daughter of William Stubens who was a sailor and Acadian Marie Babin who was born in an Acadian prison camp in Southampton, England.

According to an Acadian Genealogy site that has listing of Acadian marriages in Chantenay, Nantes, France 1775-1785

William Stubens and Marie Babin were married on January 2, 1783.

William's parents were Sanislas Stubens and Anne Scalsen

Marie's parents were Simon Babin and Anne Anastasie Teriau

http://www.acadian-home.org/Chantenay.html

From the records I have checked out:

Sanislas is a Polish first name

Stubens is a German last name

Scalsen/Skalsen is a Scandinavian name that I found in records mainly in Denmark. 

Therefore, my paternal 6th Great Grandfather William Stubens had Polish, German, and Danish ancestry.

Over 3 years ago, I discovered that my father had Danish ancestry. I have a European paternal Chromosome 1 segment near the middle of the chromosome that 23andme has shown as being Scandinavian at the time but is now shown as French/German, and a Danish man named Frits with 4 Grandparents born in Denmark matches me on it. He, an African American mother&daughter, and I match each other in the location where I have paternal European paternal segment that was previously shown as Scandinavian.  A Danish woman named Maiken matches me on that same location as my aforementioned 23andme matches at MyHeritage. Maiken, three people with high amounts of Sub Saharan African ancestry, and I match each other in the same location on the same European paternal Chromosome 1 segment that used to be shown as Scandinavian. Aunt Carrie doesn't match on any of my two paternal European Chromosome 1 segments, and so I cannot tell which of my paternal grandparents that the segments came from. Considering that my 7th Great Grandmother Anne Skalsen had Scandinavian ancestry, the European paternal Chromosome 1 segment that 23andme used to show as being Scandinavian could have came from Grandma Mary and not Grandpa Nolan.

 

Here are my facebook notes going over my Danish DNA relative matches.

Danish Ancestry on My African American Father's Side Part 1

https://www.facebook.com/notes/357917688782370/  

Danish Ancestry On My African American Father's Side Part 2

https://www.facebook.com/notes/700232470585488/

This is an article about information about the Swiss and Palatine settlers in North Carolina

https://www.ncpedia.org/swiss-and-palatine-settlers?fbclid=IwAR07PE257xX3yd7oBis_9ACstgo1BCjkxr9CWFuitAlC3wMXC8YOJgfndQo

Information about my paternal ancestral Kinsey family is in the book

Palatine German Immigration to Ireland and US. collection 1654-1878

Volume II

by Hank Z Jones Jr and Lewis Bunker Rohrback

https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view35529:62327