Cockburn DNA Project
The emerging technique of Y-DNA testing has been used to establish the Anglo-Saxon roots of the Cockburn family in Scotland. Tested Cockburn men have been found to be genetically very similar to many tested men of the Dunbar family, in particular, Dunbars who are known to be descended from the Earls of Dunbar and their Anglo-Saxon noble predecessors from Northumbria. The Cockburn men and the men from this particular branch of the Dunbar family are all members of the recently discovered R-L257 (R1b1a2a1a1a8) haplogroup of the human male family tree. R-L257 is in turn a subclade of the much more widespread haplogroup R-U106 (R1b1a2a1a1a). The distribution of R-U106 men corresponds roughly with the expected distribution of the Anglo-Saxon peoples, with relatively high densities in Frisia in the Netherlands, England, Scotland, northern Germany, Denmark and Norway. Y-DNA testing has also confirmed close links between the Cockbain family in Northern England and the Cogburn family in the United States with the Cockburn family.
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