A Study of the Caperton Genealogy

I forgot about this little blog where I can put tidbits of what I have learned.  It took me awhile to relearn how to post but now I have got it again!  I will start where I am thinking right now.  After consulting with the book, " The Tower of London Prisoner Book" by Brian E. Harrison,  I found no prisoners there in the time frame of 1400's of the the names of Caperton, Wallace, Douglas, Erskine.  So now I am looking at the Sterling Castle, the house of Stewart, in Scotland, where prisoners were also kept because it was in the area where all these people lived.  I have had no luck so far in finding lists or places where they might have been recorded. You ask, why Sterling Castle....(Stirling Castle) ....I read the book" the Forest Laird"  about William Wallace and that is where they were placing prisoners during the Scottish Rebellion and in this book, the names of these people kept cropping up.....all except Caperton.

After looking at the tree I put together using the census data and birth, death and marriage records available on Ancesty.com for the UK,  I was hoping I could make some kind of connections with an Englishman that is interested in his family history and get him to do DNA testing to see if he USA Capertons match.  I am waiting patiently....please contact me before I die and go to Heaven......lol.

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  Let's see, did I talk about the Clappertons yet?   I will do that first.  There are many Clappertons in Scotland.  They are not very interested in genealogy and no one wants to talk to me so far.  I spent last week researching the Clapperton surname.  I found several family trees online but those that made the trees do not know anything that would help me.  They were kind enough to respond, but could not give me any added info. If I could just get a Clapperton to do a DNA test I could get on with my work, either excluding them or not by the results of the testing.  Like I could eliminate the Cunninghams because there were absolutely no matches, not even close.  Getting sleepy.

So now that I have examined several Scottish DNA pages of thousands of people, I have found no matches for my Caperton yet.  Out of the thousands, there were only about 15 that even started with the first number of our DNA count. 14 24 14 10 11-14 12 13 11 12 13 29    These are the first 11 markers.  To find a match, it has to match here.  Then if you find this match, you go on to more markers.  If you match there or have just a couple that are close, then go on to more markers.  If you match, you are related.  Most of the numbers of the people in the projects began with 13. Ours, as you can see, begins with 14.   In my project, we have 4 men that tested and they all match perfectly.  They are all from different fathers in the line descending from John Caperton who came to America from Scotland in 1725.  We tested up to 67 markers. www.familytreedna.com/public/Caperton.default.aspx?section=yresults A fe...

Today I will try to figure out how to insert images here so you can see the pages that refer to as proof of existence. Caprington Castle This is from the ClanCunningham page.

The first Caperton is found in the 1400's in Scotland. I found him here. www.british-history.as.uk/    There are 3 references for the name Caperton in the document...  Rymer's Foedera with Syllabus: January-June 1432, Volume 10 page 499 to 514.   Capsulating the story.....In 1432, the lord of Caperton was involved with the men who participated in the effort to free the Scots from England.  He, along with other men, was imprisoned in Sterling Castle as a hostage.  I at first thought they were imprisoned in Tower of London, but after consulting the book,"Tower of London Prisoner Book", the following names were not there.  The only other active prison was at Sterling Castle. Adam was a hostage for Willielmo de Douglas, also spelled Willielmus de Douglas.  Other names prominent in the document are Walys or Waleys (Wallace), Stewart, Hay, Sterling, all big names in the Scottish Rebellion.   On the Caperton side of being hostages, the ...