FamilyTreeDNA kit 194971 (Big Y-700)

Company

FamilyTreeDNA

Kit id

194971

Test type

Y

Project

Ferguson - North Uist Y-DNA Project

Unrelated surname (McLea/McLeay), same terminal SNP FT94064/FT93868 as the Ferguson kits. No documented surname/paper-trail link; shared ancestor predates all four families' written records or an undocumented event broke the surname-Y-DNA link. Declared line (sec 22b5ba): Murdo McLea (b.c.1766 Dingwall) m. Anne MacRae > John McLeay (b.1802 Dingwall - d.1883 Keith) m. Janet Mair > Alexander McLeay (b.1825 Cairnie - d.1906 Whitehills) m. Sarah Wood > Forbes McLeay (b.1876 Whitehills - d.1938 Whitehills) m. Alexandrina McKenzie > James McLeay (b.1901 Kiltearn - d.1969 Banff) m. Jane Raffan.