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I haven't been to the visit the Castle GenForum website in awhile and it is amazing to me to see how many post are here now. It use to be that all of the posts were at the Cassels GenForum website. You would think that with all of the posts of people interested Cassels/Castles that more would be having their DNA tested. I have been working on the Maternal side of my family (Spencer family) I had been stumped for years with two different options and no solid proof of which one it actually was. I contacted the testing project manager for the Spencers. The lab doing the testing is at this website. http://www.familytreedna.com/
She sent me the following Email:
Your Sharp Spencer b.abt. 1768 Abemarle, Co. VA is in DNA group 9, thus has no relation to any other Spencer line- including the 4 Brothers of Connecticut. Your Sharp Spencer was the son of John Spencer b.abt 1742 d.abt.1789 and Rosannah Graves. This John was the proven son of Abraham Spencer b.abt 1684 d.aft 1737 and Susannah Sharp.
Because I already proven to John and Rosannah Graves now I know which line to follow.
My Cassels are proven back to 1807 in Georgia but then their is a bump in the road that I can't seem to prove. I have been seriously thinking about doing a DNA "Y" chromo. test for my Castle/Cassel line and maybe it will point me in the right direction on this line.
I think that I am of the Cassels that came to Pennsylvania (via William Penn) fom Kreishiem, Germany and prior to that Norman French because Cassel is not a German name but French. Way back (I think) someone or more cassel(s) went to Scotland and introduced the name there. I know that the Cassels that came from Germany were Mennonites and Quakers. A Richard Castle formerly Richard Cassels, (find him at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Castle) a famous architect in Ireland came from Kassel Germany from Huguenot parents. So maybe the Cassels were protestant Huguenots who then became Mennonites and Quakers and came to Pennsylvania. Then from Yellis to Johannes to Peter to one of the many unrecorded children of Jacob Castle "The Hunter" in Virginia and one of his 8 indian wives. <just speculating>
Lets all wish each other luck. And lets think about having our DNA tested. I think if you visit the DNA testsite in a month my name will be include in the testing.
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