Is there any connection between the name Ansley and the name(s) Ensley/Endsley?
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interesting question.
what do you know about the Ensley family?
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this site seem to indicate Ensley is a German name
https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=ensley
thus making it disjoint form Ansley.
but I believe there are other sites that want us to believe they are very much connected.
I wonder if anyone has done DNA testing on Ensley as compared to Ansley
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I am a descendant of Joseph P. Endsley who moved from South Carolina to Texas just before the Civil War. I had heard (but not verified) that there were a variety of spellings of his ancestors' names, including Ensley and others... but I have no real evidence that Ansley was one...
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have you traced the name to the Old World?
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This DNA study shows that SOME Ensleys are connected to Ansley
https://staging.familytreedna.com/public/Ansley?iframe=yresults
but that does not mean YOUR Ensleys necessarily are Ansleys.
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Right -- thanks! I've just gotten started on tracing the ancestors... I will see what I get. (If I get any Ansleys, I will update this!)
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And THANKS!!
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On the DNA study you sent me, there is a John Endsley born in 1800, died 1850-1860. In my family tree is John Bluford Endsley, Sr., born in South Carolina in 1800, died in Arkansas in 1873 but buried in Cass Country, Texas. I am a direct descendant of his brother Joseph Endsley who moved his family to Cass Country, Texas in 1859. Very interesting... I don't know if they are the same... but going back a few more generations I find Joseph Andrew Endsley of Donegal, Ireland whose parents were Solomon Endsley and Sarah Ansley (!) so there seems to be an Ansley in my genealogy, but not because the name spelling morphed over time!
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On the Ansley FamilyTree DNA Y-DNA project there are two groups of Ansley and one group of Ensley. One group of Ansleys, the descendants of Thomas Ansley in Georgia probably are not Ansleys but descendants of another surname in the 17th century. Their haplogroup is J-M172, The other group of Ansleys with surnames spelled Ainsley, Ainley, Ansley, Annesley. Their haplogroup is R-M269 which is very common. There are three Endsleys within this haplogroup so they are related but probably many years back. You would need to do genealogy to see how they are related. There is also a small group of Insleys and their haplogroup is I-P37 so they are not related to the Ansleys.
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