Given Names P thru T
Guthrie DNA Project · Family Directory
Ungrouped Guthrie Families · P–T
Explore the families, compare the evidence, and help document the next connection.
Twenty families remain ungrouped. Robert James Guthrie’s entry now points to GFG19.
Reading this directory: Ungrouped families await a supported connection to an established Guthrie Family Group. Participant paths, estimated dates, and proposed relationships remain visible; their inclusion does not prove every link.
DNA evidence: Y-DNA investigates a direct paternal line. Autosomal matches can suggest connections but do not, by themselves, identify a particular shared Guthrie ancestor. For a female Guthrie ancestor’s paternal ancestry, a suitable male-line relative of her birth family is needed.
Abbreviations: GP = grandparents; GGP = great-grandparents; 2×GGP = great-great-grandparents; MNU = maiden name unknown; FF = Family Finder. “+ more” preserves the submitted indication of additional generations not displayed. Research-tree links may require an Ancestry sign-in.
Patrick & Peter
Patrick Guthrie
County Clare and County Galway, Ireland & Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Born about 1825 in County Clare, Ireland to Patrick Guthrie & Bridget Collier
Died on 4 November 1905 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Spouse: Bridget Flaherty m. 24 Nov 1853 in Rahoon, Galway, Ireland
Children: 5
John (1854), Martin (1857), Patrick Joseph (1858), Bridget E (1863), Mary A (1871)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
Y-DNA Kit B974218 is a Y37 test from 2023, reported as R-M269. The current project update records no matches at Y25 or Y37. At Y12 there are 6,619 matches, including 21 bearing the Guthrie surname. Y12 matches alone do not establish a genealogical relationship or assign this family to a Guthrie Family Group.
The autosomal participant’s path includes Patrick’s reported parents, Patrick Guthrie and Bridget Collier. The Y-DNA kit represents this family, but a separate participant path has not been supplied for display.
DNA Participants
AncestryDNA Kit
Patrick Guthrie/Bridget Collier → Patrick Guthrie/Bridget Flaherty → Martin Guthrie / Nellie Whalen (GGP)
Y-DNA Kit B974218
Y37 (2023) · R-M269 · no separate participant path displayed
Peter Guthrie
Orkney, Scotland
Born about 1766 in Scotland
Died after 1834 in Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland
Spouse: Ann Cobban m. 6 Dec 1794 Kirkwall and St Ola, Orkney, Scotland
Children: 6
James (1795), Peter (1796; proposed identification with the Antrim ancestor), William (1798), Anne (1800), Mary (1805), Isabella (1815)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
The links from Peter Guthrie and Ann Cobban to the Irish families are participant-reported lineages. The identification of their son Peter, listed here as born in 1796, with the Peter Guthrie who married Elizabeth Nicholson remains unverified. Y-DNA comparison and documentary evidence are needed.
The separate Antrim profile reports Peter’s birth about 1797 in Ireland. These differing birthplaces and dates remain visible pending evidence that resolves the identification. Kits B520716 and B548854 appear in both entries to preserve the submitted paths; they are not four separate participants.
Compare the Antrim Peter Guthrie entry →
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Participants
Ancestry DNA Test
Peter Guthrie / Ann Cobban → James Guthrie (SCT → IRE) / Eleanor Reynolds → William Guthrie / Catherine Ann Dunlop → William Guthrie (IRE → PA) / Elizabeth Glass (GP)
Kit B520716
Peter Guthrie / Ann Cobban → Peter Guthrie / Elizabeth Nicholson → Daniel Guthrie / Jane Loughridge (GGP)
Kit B548854
Peter Guthrie / Ann Cobban → Peter Guthrie / Elizabeth Nicholson → Daniel Guthrie / Jane Loughridge (GP)
Peter Guthrie
County Antrim, Ireland
Born about 1797 in Ireland
Died on 14 May 1888 in Pharis, County Antrim, Ireland
Spouse: Elizabeth Nicholson m. about 1840 in Ireland
Children: 7
Robert (1841), Alexander (1844), Daniel (1853), Samuel (1854), Hannah (1855), Mary Jane (18??), John (18??)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
Participants propose that this Peter was the son of Peter Guthrie and Ann Cobban of Orkney. His reported Irish birth about 1797 differs from the Orkney son’s 1796 listing. The proposed connection is not established; both entries are retained for comparison.
Previous autosomal analysis showed a skew toward GFG2A matches. No new analysis has been reported. This remains a research clue and does not establish a paternal-line group assignment.
Compare the Orkney Peter Guthrie entry →
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Participants
Kit B520716
Peter Guthrie/Elizabeth Nicholson → Daniel Guthrie/Jane Loughridge (GGP)
Kit B548854
Peter Guthrie/Elizabeth Nicholson → Daniel Guthrie/Jane Loughridge (GP)
Rebecca & Richard
Rebecca Guthrie
of Ireland & Virginia
Born about 1725 presumably in County Armagh, Ireland
Died about 1800 in Virginia
Spouse: Thomas Nelson (1719-1789) m. about 1740s Ireland
Children: 6
Alexander (1749), John (17??), Thomas (17??), Jane (17??), Ellen (17??), Ann (17??)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
The County Armagh birthplace is presumptive. No new evidence has been supplied to establish a Guthrie Family Group connection. The participant’s lineage is retained without the unsupported GFG2A claim from the added background.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Participants
Kit B359212
Rebecca Guthrie/Thomas Nelson → Alexander Nelson/Elizabeth Ann Matthews → John Matthews Nelson/ Mary A Lewis Trimble → William Allen Nelson/Rebecca Margaret Kelly → Charles Quincey Nelson/Sallie Frances Morrow (GGP).
Richard Guttridge
of England & New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Reported birth: 26 August 1604, Elmstone, Kent, England (participant / online-tree sources; unverified)
Died 7 May 1676 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut
Possible earlier spouse: Unknown; inferred from the reported dates of Rachel and Lydia
Children: 2
Rachel (reportedly 1642), Lydia (reportedly 1644); birth documentation not found
Documented spouse: Dinah (MNU) · married 7 June 1646 in Connecticut
Children: 4
Bartholomew (1647), John (1650), Mary (1652), Elizabeth (1653)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
Richard married Dinah on 7 June 1646 in Connecticut. Rachel and Lydia are reportedly born in 1642 and 1644, respectively, but no birth documentation has been found. Those dates prompted the suggestion of an earlier wife; the dates alone do not establish either child’s mother.
Kit 17810 originally named Dinah as Lydia’s mother. The path below retains Richard and Lydia while explicitly leaving Lydia’s mother uncertain.
The exact English birth date and Elmstone identification derive from participant information and online trees. Neither the event type nor the connection to the Connecticut settler has been verified. Some trees give Guttridge as an alternate for Goodrich; this is a research lead, not proof that every occurrence of those surnames identifies the same family.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Participants
Kit 17810
Richard Guttridge / mother of Lydia uncertain → Lydia Guttridge/James Evarts → Mary Evarts/John B Munger Sr → John Munger Jr/Deborah French → Waitstill Munger/Lydia Kelsey → Lyman Munger/Elizabeth Coe → Betsey Munger/Samuel Massey → Frederick Massey/Sarah Ann Turner → Elizabeth Massey/Thomas Meredith (GGP).
Robert & Robert James
Robert Guthrie
of Block Island, Rhode Island
Born in 1620s-30s Scotland, presumably
Died 3 December 1692 in Block Island, Washington, Rhode Island, USA
Spouse #1: Margaret Ireland
Children: None Known
Spouse #2: Anna Alcock (1650MA-1723MA) m. 5 Jun 1689 RI
widow of John Williams with whom she had 6 children
Children: 1
Catherine Guthrie (1690)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
Robert’s Scottish origin remains presumptive. Accounts proposing that he arrived as a prisoner after Dunbar or Worcester and was sold to the Lynn or Braintree ironworks remain unproved. No new evidence resolves these theories.
The existing research notes report that he came from Braintree to the first settlement of Block Island in 1662 and was then a man of wealth and position. This reported history should be considered separately from the prisoner theories.
All listed participants descend through Catherine. At this generational distance, an autosomal match cannot reliably identify Robert as the source of the shared DNA. His daughter’s descendants do not carry his Y chromosome through her.
The B203487 and unnamed AncestryDNA paths now include the omitted Catherine Guthrie / John Sands II generation. The placement through Ray Sands / Ann Niles remains unresolved, as indicated by the question marks. Catherine/Catharine and Tredwell/Treadwell variants are retained where supplied.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Participants
Kit 251270
Robert Guthrie/Anna Alcock → Catherine Guthrie/John Sands II → Gideon Sands/Mary Sands → John Sands/Esther Palmer → Hester Ann Sands/Jeremiah Schureman → John F Schureman/Cornelia C Farrell → John F Schureman Jr/Mabel Evelin Whitcomb → Mabel J Schureman/Charles F McConnell (GGP)
Kit 350555
Robert Guthrie/Anna Alcock → Catherine Guthrie/John Sands II → Edward Sands/Hannah Tredwell → Ray Sands/Anna Niles → Anne Dickson Sands/John L Paine → Mary Ann Paine/Lyman Clark → Matilda Phebe Clark/Henry Gardner Jr (GGP)
Kit 370675
Robert Guthrie/Anna Alcock → Catherine Guthrie/John Sands II → Edward Sands/Hannah Tredwell → Ray Sands/Anna Niles → Anne Dickson Sands/John L Paine → Mary Ann Paine/Lyman Clark → Matilda Phebe Clark/Henry Gardner Jr (GGP)
Kit B6109
Robert Guthrie/Anna Alcock → Catherine Guthrie/John Sands II → John Sands III/Elizabeth Cornell → Richardson Sands/Lucretia Ledyard → William R Sands/Cicelia Saxton → Hampton Hank Sands/Susan Baldwin (GGP)
Kit B58915
Robert Guthrie/Anna Alcock → Catharine Guthrie/John Sands → Joshua Sands/Mary Smith → Elizabeth Sands/Samuel Wyatt → Nathaniel Wyatt/Amy Caverly → Mercy Wyatt/Hiram Rundell → Reuben Judson Rundell/Ruth D Melick (GGP)
Kit B170887
Robert Guthrie/Anna Alcock → Catherine Guthrie/John Sands → Nathaniel Sands/Mercy Sands → Sybil Sands/Benjamin Burling → Esther Burling/James Oldden → Mary Jane (Ann) Oldden/John George Simpson → Florence Perrine Simpson/Benjamin Prince Jr (GGP)
Kit B203487
Robert Guthrie/Anna Alcock → Catherine Guthrie/John Sands II → Edward Sands/Hannah Treadwell → ? Ray Sands/Ann Niles ? → Gideon Sands/Frances Hyde → Sarah Caroline Sands/Abraham Hutchings → William Hutchings/Margaret Jane Gallagher → Mary Emma Hutchings/Troy Snow Dugan (GGP)
Kit (AncestryDNA)
Robert Guthrie/Anna Alcock → Catherine Guthrie/John Sands II → Edward Sands/Hannah Treadwell → ? Ray Sands/Ann Niles ? → Gideon Sands/Frances Hyde → Sarah Caroline Sands/Abraham Hutchings → Frederick Crooker Hutchings/Anna Jane Mullen Clark (GGP)
Robert Guthrie
(Coachman) – of Ayrshire, Scotland
Born abt. 1790 (rough estimate) in Scotland
Died bet. 1831 and 1841 in Scotland, probably in Ayrshire
Spouse: Margaret Wilson (1795-1877) m. 6 June 1819 in Riccarton, Ayrshire, Scotland
Children: 5
James (1820), William (1822), Robert (1826), Sarah (1829), David (1831)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
Robert’s birth about 1790 is a rough estimate, and the reported death interval remains 1831–1841. No specific cause of death or migration history is established by the information supplied.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Participants
Kit (NJM-Ancestry)
Robert Guthrie/Margaret Wilson → James Guthrie/Jean or Jane Smith → Margaret Wilson Whitehall Guthrie / Robert Alexander McNeil (2xGGP)
Robert Guthrie
of Scotland and Somerset County, Pennsylvania
Born 1832-1835 in Scotland
Died on 24 October 1894 in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, USA
Spouse: Elizabeth Martin (1841-1906) m. about 1860
Children: 7
Mary / Moiren (1861), Adia Elizabeth / Edith (about 1864), Ellen ‘Ella’ (about 1865), Robert (about 1867–1868), Annie Elizabeth (about 1869), Jennie (1871), John W (1872)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
Adia Elizabeth / Edith was born about 1864; Ellen “Ella” appears to have been a year younger, about 1865. In the 1870 census Robert was aged two and Annie Elizabeth nine months. They were not twins. Robert’s age suggests about 1867–1868 rather than the former 1869 listing.
Mary / Moiren and Adia Elizabeth / Edith are retained as supplied name variants. The family’s precise Scottish origin remains to be established.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Participants
Kit (GS-Ancestry)
Robert Guthrie/Elizabeth Martin → Ellen ‘Ella’ Guthrie/Jacob Snyder (GGP)
Robert James Guthrie
of Scotland, Ontario, and Missouri
Now GFG19
Visit Guthrie Family Group 19 →
Born 1839 in Scotland
Died after 1900 probably in Missouri
Spouse: Katherine Ann Broomfield (1844ONT-1914MO) m. abt 1860
Children: 7
Walter C (1864), Robert James (1860), Katherine Margaret (1869), Eliza (1873), William Broomfield (1873), Edgar Esselmont (1876), Isabelle (1877)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
This family is now assigned to Guthrie Family Group 19. Kit 42462 is a Y37 test originally taken in 2005, with R-M269 displayed as its haplogroup. The supplied Haplogroup Story screenshot confirms that display. The former Niall of the Nine Hostages claim was incorrect and has been removed.
This entry remains as a directory referral so that the family and participant path can still be found here. Its current status is GFG19, not Ungrouped. The “+ more” notation in the submitted path indicates additional generations not displayed.
Y-DNA Participant
Kit 42462
Robert James Guthrie/Katherine Ann Broomfield → Edgar Esselmont Guthrie/Bertha Ione Lillard (GGP) +more
Samuel
Samuel Guthrie
of County Donegal, Ireland
Born 1780 Donegal, County Donegal, Ireland
Died March 1835 in North Township, Harrison County, Ohio, USA
Spouse: Susanna Kimmel (1797-1854) m. 7 Feb 1819 in Cadiz, Harrison, OH
Children: 6
Mary Ann (1819), Fredrick Kimmel (1822), John Addison (1825), James (1827), Susannah (1829), Henry Charles (1832)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
No further participant lineage has been supplied beyond Henry Guthrie and Hanna Sherrette. The place is County Donegal, Ireland; the county is not in present-day Northern Ireland.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Participants
Kit B3328
Samuel Guthrie/Susanna Kimmel → Henry Guthrie/Hanna Sherrette → No Further Lineage Info Provided
Samuel R. Guthrie
of North Carolina, Alabama & Texas
Born about 1798 in North Carolina – Reported death: June 1850, Smith County, Texas; see mortality-index note
Spouse: Margaret Mathers (1803-1851) m. 4 Nov 1821 Jefferson County, AL
Children: 5
L (1823-son), William J (1825), Isaac Newton (1829), Lydia J (1830), James W (1833)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
The supplied U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index identifies Samuel R. Guthrie, aged 52, born in North Carolina, in Smith County, Texas, with June as the month of death and 1850 as the schedule year. The R is documented by that index. Its cause-of-death field reads “INFL BLATTER.”
The directory’s reported June 1850 death is retained pending the original schedule. A mortality schedule’s census year should not automatically be treated as the calendar year of every death it records.
Margaret’s middle initial J appears in the participant path but has not been documented. Their son remains listed as L Guthrie; no expanded given name has been supplied.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Participants
Kit 326753
Samuel R Guthrie/Margaret J Mathers (J unverified) → L Guthrie/Mary Ann Calhoun → Elzie Calhoun Guthrie/Emily Jane Dodge → Colonel Elmer Guthrie/Lillie Isabella Ainsworth (GGP)
Samuel Guthrie
of Ballinteer and Ballykelly, Londonderry, Ireland
Born 1809 – Died April 1889 Sheephill, Ballykelly, Londonderry, Ireland
Spouse: Elizabeth Wray (1810-1901) m. about 1840
Children: 8
William (1842), Nancy (1848), Jane (1849), Robert (1850), Margaret (1851), Sarah (1857), Samuel (1861), Isaac (1862)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
The 1831 Derry census led to proposed fathers William Guthrie or Adam Guthrie. The name of Samuel’s eldest son supplies a naming-pattern argument for William, but does not prove the relationship. No new information resolves the parentage.
Records found in the existing research name Samuel’s wife Elizabeth, or on one occasion Eliza. Margaret and Margaret Elizabeth occur in trees without a supporting original record identified. Wray, Rea, and Ray remain useful surname variants.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Participants
Kit 234658
Samuel Guthrie/Elizabeth Wray → Nancy Annie Guthrie/James Black (GGP)
Kit N7876
Samuel Guthrie/Elizabeth Wray → Nancy Annie Guthrie/James Black → Sarah Ann (Sadie) Black/Samuel Speers (GGP)
Sarah & Sylva
Sarah Guthrie
of Cumberland, PA & Nelson, KY
Born about 1734 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Died about 1823 in Nelson County, Kentucky, USA
Spouse: Samuel Brown (1731-1799) m. about 1756
Children: 14 previously listed, plus James in participant trees (placement unverified)
Nancy (1756), Nathaniel (1758), Samuel (1759), Jenet (1762), Mary (1764), Sarah (1766), Elizabeth (1768), John L (1769), Ruth (1770), Nancy (1772), Johnson (1772), Isabella (1774), Margaret (1776), Rebecca (1778)
Additional reported son: James Brown (dates unknown), husband of Elizabeth Samuels
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
James Brown, husband of Elizabeth Samuels, is added because all three submitted participant paths descend through him. He is not listed in Samuel Brown’s 1797 will. His placement remains unverified; omission from that will alone does not settle whether he was a son.
The fourteen previously listed children are retained, including Nancy in 1756 and Nancy in 1772. No new evidence resolves those repeated names. Shared birth years do not establish twins.
Existing analysis reports matches to this Guthrie–Brown line, a few to GFG2A, and others to Ungrouped Guthrie families. Cumberland County is associated with GFG2A–Branch E, descendants of Robert Guthrie and Bridget Dougherty, but their children born in the 1730s are reported as born in Ireland and fairly well documented. Geography and these autosomal matches do not establish Sarah’s parentage or group.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Participants
Kit B116020
Sarah Guthrie/Samuel Brown → James Brown/Elizabeth Samuels → Hugh B Brown/Nancy M Barnes → Lou Nettie Brown/Joseph Diffey → Nancy Elizabeth Diffey/David Franklin Taylor → Mary Josephine Taylor/Joel Jefferson Walker (GGP)
Kit B150881
Sarah Guthrie/Samuel Brown → James Brown/Elizabeth Samuels → Hugh B Brown/Nancy M Barnes → Lou Nettie Brown/Joseph Diffey → Nancy Elizabeth Diffey/David Franklin Taylor (GGP)
Kit B150901
Sarah Guthrie/Samuel Brown → James Brown/Elizabeth Samuels → Hugh B Brown/Nancy M Barnes → Lou Nettie Brown/Joseph Diffey → Nancy Elizabeth Diffey/David Franklin Taylor (GGP)
Sylvania ‘Sylva’ Guthrie
Virginia / Alabama / Texas
Born about 1822 in Virginia, USA – Died after 1880 in Texas, USA
Spouse/s: Unknown
Children: 4 Known
George Guthrie (reported 1835; conflicting census dates), J Adolphus (1850), John Guthrie (1852), James (1855)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
The 1870 census gives Sylva’s age as 48, supporting a birth about 1822. Her reported death remains after 1880 in Texas. She was born into slavery in Virginia; her children’s fathers have not been identified.
George’s birth date is inconsistent across sources: Find a Grave gives 1 October 1835; the 1910 census implies about 1834; the 1900 census gives October 1842; and the 1880 census implies about 1844. The earlier dates would make Sylva approximately twelve or thirteen at his birth. These conflicting records remain unresolved.
The 1850 slave schedule for J. S. Guthrie lists females aged 33 and 6; males aged 13, 8, 4, and 2; and a male infant aged six months. The schedule classifies the first six people as Black and the infant using the historical term “Mulatto.” These are the record’s classifications, not independent identification of the individuals.
The woman aged 33 would have been born about 1817, which differs from Sylva’s 1870 census estimate. No known probate or estate record specifically names Sylva. The proposed identification with this household remains a hypothesis.
The project’s working theory is that Rev. James Smith Guthrie and Lethe Burns brought Sylva’s family to Texas, with the enslaved people coming through inheritance on the Burns side. The locations and the name Burns Guthrie, one of George’s freeborn sons, are research clues. George is reported born in Alabama and Sylva’s younger sons in Texas. Lethe died in 1850 and Rev. Guthrie in 1856; Sylva’s family is found in Garden Valley, Smith County, Texas, in 1870. Their intervening history remains uncertain.
Kit B59169 is the only kit for this line currently in the project. Of 1,673 autosomal matches in the reported review, only two list Guthrie ancestry and none bear the Guthrie surname. One descends from GFG2A–Branch A, the family lineage of Rev. James Smith Guthrie; the other descends from GFG11. These matches do not identify a particular shared Guthrie ancestor or prove the proposed connection to the enslaving household.
No Y-DNA kit for this family is officially part of the project. The former statement excluding established Guthrie Y-DNA groups was unsupported and has been removed. The family used the Guthrie surname after emancipation; the circumstances of its adoption are not established.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Participants
Kit B59169
Sylvania ‘Sylva’ Guthrie (born into slavery)/Partner UNK → George Guthrie/Adeline Peacock → Dennis Hopkins Guthrie/Arrila Roberts (GGP)
Thomas
Thomas Guthrie
of Berwick & Midlothian, Scotland
Born about 1762 in Scotland
Occupation: Cooper
Died: 5 Jan 1837 in St Cuthberts, Midlothian, Scotland
Spouse: Isabella Thornton (1774-1813)
Children: 2
Thomas (1801), Elizabeth (1802)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Participants
Kit 523586
Thomas Guthrie/Isabella Thornton → Thomas Guthrie/Catherine Brown → William Guthrie/Mary Gowans → James Guthrie/Mary Shaw → Elizabeth Margaret Guthrie/George Mackinlay Mackay (GGP)
Thomas Guthrie
of Berwick, Scotland & Cornwall, England
Born about 1766 in Hutton, Berwickshire, Scotland
Occupation: Weaver and Quarter Master Sergeant of Royal Fusiliers
Died about 1844 in England
Spouse: Amy Styles Sturtridge (1781–1871) · married 10 May 1803, St Mary’s, Truro, Cornwall
Children: 6
Jane (1805), Petronell (1806), Amy (1809), Thomas (1814), Ann (1821), Elizabeth (1826)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
The marriage to Amy Styles Sturtridge took place on 10 May 1803 at St Mary’s, Truro, Cornwall.
Chelsea Pensioners’ Discharge Documents dated 7 November 1813 identify Thomas Guthrie as Quarter Master Sergeant of the Army Depot Staff, associated with the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), 7th Foot. The supplied reference is WO121, Box 0176.
The document records his birth parish as “Huton,” his age as 47 (consistent with about 1766), and his trade as weaver. His description gives a height of 5 feet 9¾ inches, dark hair, grey eyes, and a brown complexion. The directory’s Hutton spelling is retained while the document’s parish spelling is noted.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Participants
Kit 289235
Thomas Guthrie/Amy Styles Sturtridge → Thomas Guthrie/Ann Groves → Ann Guthrie/William Henry Hunter → Robert James Hunter/Flora Bellshaw (GGP)
Thomas Guthrie
of Dromore, County Down, Ireland
Born about 1766 in Ireland
Died after 1799 presumably in Ireland
Spouse: Jane Henry m. before 1784 Dromore, County Down, Ireland
Children: 4 reported; Mary’s placement remains proposed
Elizabeth Jane (1785), Isabella (1787), Alice (1791), Mary (1799)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
Mary Guthrie Ginn’s proposed parentage remains unverified, consistently with her K–O directory entry. Her birth about 1799 in Ireland is supported by the records discussed there; no new evidence establishes that Thomas Guthrie and Jane Henry were her parents.
The participant path is retained as submitted with an explicit qualification at the proposed parent–child link. The reported daughters’ names and dates remain visible without converting the proposed family reconstruction into proof.
Mary Guthrie / James Ginn in K–O →
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Participants
Kit B5484
Thomas Guthrie/Jane Henry → [proposed parentage] Mary Guthrie/James Ginn → Mary Ann Ginn/Wright Devitt → Isabella Devitt/George Reynolds (GGP)
Thomas Guthrie
of Yorkshire, England
Born about 1771, presumably in England
Death recorded in the April–June quarter of 1846, Hunslet, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Spouse: Hannah Bradford (1771-1847) m. 8 Dec 1794 in St Peter, Leeds
Children: 5
William (1795), Thomas Gawthorpe (1800), Mary (1803), Ebenezer (1806), Elizabeth (1812)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
Thomas Gawthorpe Guthrie’s birth year is corrected from 1880 to 1800.
Kit 419428 is a Y67 test resulted in 2015, with a Family Finder test added in 2024. Its currently listed haplogroup is I-Y5282, replacing the earlier I-M223 display.
The reported match review records two Y67 matches, both to men with the Dresser surname, at genetic distances of four and six steps. Four Y37 matches are also to men with that surname, at distances of one to three steps.
A documented paternal-line descendant of another son of Thomas and Hannah would provide a valuable comparison. These results alone do not establish a surname change, its date, or which generation might be involved.
Y-DNA & Family Finder Participant
Kit 419428
Thomas Guthrie/Hannah Bradford → Ebenezer Guthrie/Mary Ann Land → George William Guthrie/Margaret J Morley (GGP) +more
Thomas Y. Guthrie
of Tennessee / Alabama
Born about 1803 in Tennessee
Occupation: House Carpenter
Death estimated 1875–1880, reportedly in Madison County, Alabama; last known record 13 May 1875
Spouse #1: Elizabeth Luttrell
Children: 5
John B (1836), William A (1839), George W (1839), Thomas Jefferson (1842), Richard B (1845)
Spouse #2: Emeline Markham
Children: 8
Virginia Ann (1850), Elizabeth (1852), Matthew James (1854), John Byron (1856), Andrew Jackson (1858), Robert Hall (1862), Washington (1863), Jim Henry (1866)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
Census records support the middle initial Y. No source spelling out “Yoner” has been found. That name is retained as a reported, unverified expansion in the participant paths.
The last known document is a mortgage dated 13 May 1875. Thomas has not been found in the 1880 census, giving rise to the estimated 1875–1880 death interval. Census absence does not establish a definite death date or prove that he died before enumeration.
The closest reported autosomal matches for Kit 364845 are to GFG2A–Branch K, associated with South Carolina and Alabama. This is a research lead, not a confirmed group assignment. The shared 1839 birth years for William A. and George W. do not establish twin births.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Participants
Kit 364845
Thomas Y. Guthrie (reported as “Yoner,” unverified)/Emeline Markham → Jim Henry Guthrie/Mary M Butler → Joe Dauson Guthrie/Dorrie Gertrude Hames (GGP)
Kit N105961
Thomas Y. Guthrie (reported as “Yoner,” unverified)/Emeline Markham → Virginia Anne Guthrie/James Bonds → Edward Zack Bonds/Pearl Teleda Luster → Luvernie Bonds/Henry W Johnson (GGP)
Thomas Guthrie
of Moate, Westmeath, Ireland
Born: Early 1800s in Ireland
Occupation: Shoemaker
Died: Before 29 Nov 1874 in Moate, Westmeath, Ireland
Spouse: Mary/Maria Mannion
Children: 7
William (1855), Mary (1856), Thomas (1860), John (1863), Theresa (1866), Jane (1869), Andrew (1872)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
A proposed association with Laheen appears to have originated with the participant. No proven Laheef–Guthrie shared DNA or documented connection has been established for this family.
The broader claim linking Guthrie with Lahiff and then Laheen is not adopted here as evidence for this pedigree. The specific surname history and any application to this Moate family require verification. The participant’s theory remains recorded without presenting a surname change as fact.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Participants
Kit B840617
Thomas Guthrie/Mary Mannion → Thomas Guthrie/Mary Rooney (GGP)
Thomas Gutteridge
of Leicestershire, England
Born 16 Jun 1751 in Walton, Leicestershire, England
Died after 1796 probably in England
Spouse: Ann Hammonds m. 22 Dec 1782 Walton on the Wolds, Leicester
Children: 5
William (1783), Ann (1786), Elizabeth (1788), William (1794), John (1796)
Open for family notes & participant lineages
Evidence & Research Notes
The concern about the participant’s separate Ray line remains unresolved: it does not appear to be the Ann Guthrie / Archibald Rhea line identified in the submitted tree. That discrepancy is retained as a research warning; it does not establish a replacement pedigree.
Both children named William, listed in 1783 and 1794, are retained. No death is inferred from the reuse of the name.
Family Finder / Autosomal DNA Participants
Kit B181323
Thomas Gutteridge/Ann Hammonds → John Gutteridge/Sarah Richardson → Elijah Gutteridge/Sarah Jane Clarke → Elijah Gutteridge/Clara Rawson → Sarah Gutteridge/Alfred Rainer (GGP)
Help Document the Next Connection
Most Wanted Documents & Comparisons
- Orkney and Antrim: records and suitable Y-DNA comparisons testing the proposed connection between the two Peter Guthrie families.
- Richard Guttridge: original records for Rachel and Lydia, and evidence connecting the Connecticut settler with the reported Elmstone ancestor.
- Block Island: evidence for Robert’s arrival and resolution of the questioned Ray Sands / Ann Niles links.
- Samuel and Sarah: the original mortality schedule for Samuel R.; records naming Samuel of Ballykelly’s parents; and evidence testing James Brown’s placement.
- Sylva: named estate, probate, conveyance, or other records identifying her and her children, alongside evidence resolving George’s birth date.
- Thomas families: documentation for Mary Ginn’s proposed parents; an independent paternal-line tester for Thomas / Hannah Bradford; and records of Thomas Y. after May 1875.
Share an image or complete source reference, identify the relationship it addresses, and distinguish the record’s wording from your interpretation.
Have a Correction or a Family Record?
Include the ancestor’s name, spouse, dates, places, and supporting evidence. For a participant pedigree, identify the kit and the generation needing attention.
Could Your Family Supply a Tester?
A suitable paternal-line relative may help establish a group connection. Autosomal participants and documentary researchers can contribute through other descendant lines.