Studley Pedigree

INTRODUCTION

According to the Domesday Book Survey of 1086 the Stodlege name was found in Dorset where a kings theign (Edrik de Stodlege) was granted lands by King William for his assistance at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 A.D.  Edrik held 7 manors in Dorset (See Domesday Book- Dorset Page XIX Folio 19) the largest being at Pilsdon (3 miles from Broadwindsor). 

Although the name, Stodlege, appeared in many references, from time to time the surname appears as Stoodley, Studley, Stoodly, Studly, Stodlege, Stoodlege and Stoodleigh, and these changes in spelling frequently occurred, even between father and son. Scribes recorded and spelled the name as it sounded. Typically a person would be born with one spelling, married with another, and buried with a headstone which showed another.

The surname Stodlege literally means “woodland clearing or pasture where a herd of horses is kept,” from the Old English “stod” + “leah or in Middle English Stodley or Stodlegh, or in Anglo-Saxon as Stódleáh or stódleáge’. It also refers to somebody “belonging to Studleigh or Studley.  Stodlege is the historic form of Studley (Survey of English Place Names)

 

I am a descendent of the Studley Family who lived in Broadwindsor for 500 years The Studleys were flax and sail cloth makers, supplying the Royal Navy. They married into the nobility (see below), claimed the Studley Coat-of-Arms, sent their sons to Oxford University and to the colonies. I am unsure if I am a descendent of Edric of Stodlege although one of his manors (Pilsdon) was only 3 miles from Broadwindsor.

1) Studley Pedigree (Direct) – N.B. There are four pages

2) RESULTS FROM aDNA

a) My paternal haplogroup from aDNA is J-Z2215 (downstream from J1-M267) and my maternal is U8b’c.

The origin of J1/J-Z2215 is mostly from Eastern Anatolia/Western Armenia and U8b’c is Europe and India

b) My Gene Pool % (from HomeDNA)

 

d) Ancient DNA

e) My Bronze age Gene Pool

There was no detectable DNA profile found in Scandinavia during the Bronze Age

2) Y-DNA RESULTS

a)My haplogroups

My main haplogroup is J-M267 (a subclade of J-M304) which is very rare in the UK. In terms of Y-DNA matches (FTDNA) with Studleys we all belong to the same haplogroup. All of us are Descended from the Broadwindsor Studleys.

J-M304 is of Transcaucasian origin and is defined by the M304 genetic marker, or the equivalent 12f2.1 marker. The main current subgroups J-M267, of Armenia highlands origin, and J-M172 of Zagros mountains origin, which now comprise between them almost all of the haplogroup’s descendant lineages, are both believed to have arisen very early, at least 10,000 years ago (Wikipedia)

I have an exact Y-DNA match with Trevor James Stoodley of Woolavington, Somerset and the late Joseph Allan (Vey) Stoodley of Newfoundland

Trevor James Stoodley of Woolavington, Soms	Joseph Allan (Vey) Stoodley of Newfoundland

My common ancestor with Trevor are is John Studley (1772-1825) and with Joseph is Thomas (1642-1721). It was Vey’s great-great grandfather Thomas (1791-1860) who emigrated to Newfoundland

b) Ancieny Y DNA

 e) Ancestral Origins (close matches)

Country	Match Total	Country Total	Percentage	Comments
Afghanistan	1	141	0.7%	Mizrachi (1)
Algeria	9	493	1.8%	Sephardic (1)
Armenia	2	1051	0.2%
Austria	13	1438	0.9%	Ashkenazi (3)
Azerbaijan	3	373	0.8%
Bahrain	16	678	2.4%
Belarus	28	1777	1.6%	Ashkenazi (15), Ashkenazi-Cohen (1), Sicily (1)
Belgium	2	1016	0.2%	Ashkenazi (1)
Brazil	2	454	0.4%
Bulgaria	4	819	0.5%
Canada	1	1669	0.1%
Chile	1	93	1.1%
Czech Republic	6	1892	0.3%	Bohemia-Ashkenazi (1)
Dominican Republic	2	106	1.9%	Ashkenazi (1)
Egypt	6	618	1%
England	27	46530	0.1%	Ashkenazi (1), Sephardic (1)
France	8	8119	0.1%	Ashkenazi (1), MDKO: United States (1)
Germany	64	25108	0.3%	Ashkenazi (14), Baden-Württemberg (1), MDKO: Puerto Rico (1)
Greece	3	1653	0.2%
Hungary	25	2390	1%	Ashkenazi (13)
Iran	5	664	0.8%
Iraq	39	3082	1.3%	Mizrachi (2)
Ireland	4	32407	< 0.1 %
Israel	4	273	1.5%	Ashkenazi (1)
Italy	23	6831	0.3%
Jordan	3	398	0.8%
Kuwait	27	1838	1.5%
Latvia	7	525	1.3%	Ashkenazi (5)
Lebanon	11	873	1.3%
Libya	13	634	2.1%
Lithuania	23	2257	1%	Ashkenazi (12)
Malta	1	104	1%
Mexico	11	1962	0.6%	MDKO: Mexico (2)
Moldova	6	197	3%	Ashkenazi (4)
Morocco	12	591	2%	Ashkenazi (1), Sephardic (1)
Netherlands	13	3330	0.4%	Ashkenazi (1)
Norway	1	4626	< 0.1 %
Oman	17	472	3.6%
Palestinian Territory	15	442	3.4%
Peru	3	70	4.3%
Poland	93	8486	1.1%	Ashkenazi (39), Ashkenazi (Galicia) (1), Ashkenazi-Cohen (1), Prussia (1)
Portugal	6	2211	0.3%
Qatar	8	808	1%
Romania	23	1072	2.1%	Ashkenazi (8)
Russian Federation	65	10909	0.6%	Ashkenazi (26), Ashkenazi-Cohen (1)
Saudi Arabia	223	11264	2%
Scotland	4	22640	< 0.1 %
Serbia	1	396	0.3%
Slovakia	2	1072	0.2%	Ashkenazi (1)
Spain	16	6132	0.3%	MDKO: Puerto Rico (1)
Sudan	9	367	2.5%
Sweden	1	9900	< 0.1 %
Switzerland	9	4117	0.2%
Syrian Arab Republic	11	841	1.3%
Tunisia	3	318	0.9%
Turkey	10	1870	0.5%	Sephardic (1)
Ukraine	89	4015	2.2%	Ashkenazi (38), Ashkenazi-Cohen (2)
United Arab Emirates	27	1210	2.2%
United Kingdom	8	16013	< 0.1 %	Ashkenazi (1), MDKO: United States (1)
United States	12	27211	< 0.1 %
United States (Native American)	2	1776	0.1%
Yemen	50	1656	3%

N.B.. The greatest number of matches are from Poland, Ukraine, Russia and Saudi Arabia. Nearly 20% are Ashkenazi, Sephardic or Mizrachi and 3 are Ashkenazi-Cohen