The Browns associated with the Pophams *should *be in Group 10, as the Pophams were all in the same general are of LaGrange/Sperryville/Hazel River. The progenitor of that family was Job Popham who was born in 1738 in Westmoreland County, son of John Popham (d. 1740 Westmoreland) and his second (and much younger) wife Rachel Evins. The second husband of Rachel Evins was James Maxwell whose daughter Hannah Maxwell was the first wife of Matthew Hawkins. Rachel Evins was the "nearest relation and heir of Thomas Stonehouse" to a 1000 acre grant on the Hazel River tn 1728.
I have not done a thorough study of the Popham family, but they interweave quite a bit with their Hawkins cousins. So much so that one the Popham / Hawkins marriages was annulled by a jury on the grounds of consanguinity. (I think it was an easy way to just get a divorce, frankly.) The couple in question was Hawkins Popham and Rebecca Hawkins, and this was in 1823 and Rebecca promptly remarried to John Story. But I digress.
Craig
On Jul 10, 2014, at 8:38 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Bernie,
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> Records on the internet show that John S. Brown married Mary Popham in Rappahannock Co., VA versus in Rockingham Co., VA. Do you agree with that? I have confirmed that the other three Brown/Popham marriages that I mentioned before all involved Browns who were members of DNA "Group 10" (all were apparently out of Mordecai Brown "I" and Culpeper Co., VA), but my fellow Brown researchers and I are not sure about this John S. Brown. The Brown family of DNA "Group 47" was in Rappahannock Co., VA, so it is POSSIBLE that John S. Brown was a member of that Brown family instead of "Group 10"....but more research is apparently needed. Here is one file that I found on that line:
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> http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=edswoman&id=I72013
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> If a living male Brown from this line exists, he should take the 37 marker Y chromosome DNA test at the Brown Genealogy Society.
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> Bill Davidson
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