Below is
an e-mail from Bob Jodan (rjodan@aol.com). Please contact Bob, if you have any additional information.
Bruce, hi, I contacted you last year, and was briefly in the Brereton project. At that time, research had placed me in the Furne family, as a great grandson of a George Arthur Furne, Due to a lot of evidence, many in the Furne family felt that George Arthur Furne was in fact Arthur Brereton, who had left Canada at about age 20, came to US, and changed his name.
That Arthur Brereton was son of Henry, who was son of another Arthur who had two sons, that Henry, and the Thomas you are descended from.
When I (my father had been adopted) was shown to be a Furne, the conclusion at that point was that my yDNA of I-M253, as a male Furne, disproved the Furne's being Breretons. However since then another male Furne has taken the yDNA test, and he is R-M269. I understand from the Brereton project site that R-M269 is indeed the same as your R-PF7589 (just a change in haplogroup nomenclature.) This would seem to prove conclusively that the Furnes are indeed Breretons. And my situation has evolved to show that I must be the grandson of a female Furne, not a male Furne as was previously assumed, so my position fits nicely in.
Just wanted to let you know, FYI. And wanted to find out if you or anyone else in the Brereton project had traced back the heritage of that original Arthur, who we understand came to Canada from Ireland in 1846. And how that branch of the Breretons might fit with the other branches.
The original Furne family evidence included lots of crazy family lore that maybe was not so crazy after all. George Arthur Furne, at a time he feared for his life ( the whole Furne family home had been wiped out by a tornado, all injured, his wife seriously, one son killed), called his sons together and confessed the family name was not Furne, but was Barrington ( as they recalled it)-----many years later the family was contacted by Breretons who wanted to know how the families were DNA related, and it became clear he must have had really said "Brereton" to start with. Over the years George Arthur was seen as a man trying to hide his past-----and he told stories about being in the Canadian army, and then escaping over the border to the US with the help of a band of Indians.
Thanks Bruce, and to anyone on the Brereton site who might have info on the original Arthur Brereton from Ireland.
Bob Jodan
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