For that matter, there could be a re-marriage somewhere in the line and the children/child took the step-father's name.  This happened in my own family and we have only recently determined the original parent.  We have not, however, confirmed it with DNA testing yet.   

Cynthia McDaniel

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Are you sure he wasn't adopted or could he have been apprenticed to him and
assumed his surname.My husband matches two different men so one had to either
assume a name or was adopted.I have a cousin line that changed their name when
they moved across the Ohio from Ky to Illinois.Look around to see if you can find
adoptions or apprenticeships in the area where they lived.

On Wed   , Sally Phillips  sent:
>We can trace my husband on paper back to one George Phillips, sea captain
>on the Pamunkey in Virginia in 1680.  However, when my husband had his DNA
>tested for a lark, he came back as a Fitzhugh.  The definitive biography
>of William Fitzhugh the Immigrant back in the 1600s gives the information
>that William Fitzhugh used one George Phillips as his sea captain to ship
>his tobacco to London.  The book includes several letters Fitzhugh wrote
>to Phillips.  It also explains that Fitzhugh enjoyed socializing with his
>sea captains and their families.   
>We'll never be able to prove it, but it looks to us like William Fitzhugh
>socialized just a little too closely with Mrs. George Phillips, possibly
>while her husband was at sea with his tobacco!  We would never have known
>without the DNA test. 
>Sally Phillips

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