Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 01:05:40 -0700 (MST)
From: James Lake <irisandjames@shaw.ca>
To: Marshall Lake <marshallelake@gmail.com>

My primary objective was to determine if the Lakes in Newfoundland were
related. A secondary objective was to determine a connection with Lakes
in England.

To that end I sponsored 9 Y DNA tests to Y111 for Lakes in the three area
where Lakes were concentrated in Newfoundland.  These areas were Oderin (my
ancestors), Fortune (the largest group of Lakes) and West Placentia Bay Lakes.

Findings:

General:  All the Lakes tested were from Haplo group R-M269 with the
exception of the two related families in Oderin.  The two Oderin families
were members of J-M272 plus Richard Lake of Devon, England and Brian Wallace
Lake of California.  Richard and Brian were born in Gurnsey, England and
their ancestors born in Devon, England.  Richard Lake has a detailed FT
but no connection has been established to date between my Lake ancestors
and Richards, however family names are similar. 

Oderin Lakes.  There were three families of Lakes in Oderin in 1830 when
church records were established.  DNA confirmed two of the three families
were related paternaly and the third family was related by marriage.  Two
studies by Dr. Tyrone Bowes for the Oderin Lake families homeland indicated
that my ancestors were from the Exeter area of Devon and the paternally
unrelated family were from Southwest Ireland.  It is believed this family
were not Lakes originally and were the earliest Lakes in Oderin.

The two paternally related families were, William Lake, my gg grandfather
and Solomon Lake.  Oderin merchant records showed a Joseph Lake who is
believed to be Williams father.  Two US citizenship application records
from descendents of Solomon Lake has Solomon born in England.  Many of
William and Solomon descendents moved to MA and NY. Also court records show
a Henry Lake of Oderin purchased the inventory of a bankrupt merchant in
Oderin 1815.  Henry is believed to be the father of John Lake from the
paternally unrelated Oderin family.  

None of the three Lake groups, Oderin Lakes, Fortune Lakes and West Placentia
Bay Lakes were paternally related.

It is believed that George Lake, Fortune Lakes, was the first Lake in
Newfoundland.  George signed a petition in 1744 requesting the help of
the British government to eliminate French pirates in Placentia Bay. 
In 1713 the Treaty of Versailles evicted the French from Newfoundland. 
Oderin was originally was settled by the French as early as 1500.  George
is believed to have been born in Bidefort, Devon.  George was a merchant
and there are many court enteries for George and his wife Ann.

I've had a number of researchers in England working on the Lakes but little
success.  I'm currently entering my data into Family Planner.  I will
review your data base in the next day or two.