The HARTLEY Surname - DNA

It's early days, but there appears to be TWO different surname lineages ...

The frontrunner is Haplotype R1b1 derived from the place-name, HARTLEY [HEORT-LEA]

In this instance, the origins of the surname Hartley are of local or toponymic origin
that is, derived from the name of the place of residence of the initial bearer. That means the surname derives from the place-name HARTLEY that is found in a number of English counties including Cumbria, Lancashire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, Berkshire, Hampshire, Devon, Dorset and Kent.

In other words, 'John' lived at 'Hartley', therefore he became 'John of Hartley', eventually 'John Hartley'.

None of the R1b1[c] results below are close enough a match to one another to indicate a common ancestor within the past 10 000 years. In other words, they bear the same family name, HARTLEY, but are 'unrelated' to one-another, so weren't descended from, say for instance, a 'John HEORTLEA' who lived 5 000 years ago.

Internet results showing Haplotype Group R1b1[c]; results as follows:
DYS 393
DYS 390
DYS 19/394
DYS 19b*
DYS 391
DYS 385a***
DYS 385b***
DYS 426
DYS 388
DYS 439
13
24
14
-
11
11
14
12
12
12
13
24
14
-
10
11
14
12
12
12
13
25
15
-
10
13
14
12
12
11
13
25
14
-
11
11
15
12
12
13
13
23
14
-
11
11
14
12
12
12
13
25
14
-
10
11
14
12
12
12
                   
13
25
14
-
10
11
13
12
12
12
DYS 389-1**
DYS 392
DYS 389-2**
DYS 458
DYS 459a
DYS 459b
DYS 455***
DYS 454***
DYS 447
DYS 437
13
13
31
14
9
10
11
11
25
15
13
13
29
17
9
8
11
11
25
15
14
13
30
16
9
10
11
11
26
14
13
13
30
16
9
11
11
11
25
15
13
13
29
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
14
13
30
19
9
10
11
11
25
15
                   
13
14
29
17
9
10
11
11
25
15
DYS 448
DYS 449
DYS 464a
DYS 464b
DYS 464c
DYS 464d
DYS 460
GATA H4
YCA 11a
YCA 11b
19
30
15
15
16
17
11
11
19
23
19
29
15
15
17
17
11
11
19
23
20
34
12
13
15
15
12
10
18
23
19
30
14
15
17
17
11
10
19
23
19
31
14
15
16
17
11
11
19
23
                   
18
29
16
16
16
17
12
12
19
22
DYS 456
DYS 607
DYS 576
DYS 570
CDY a
CDY b
DYS 442
DYS 438
16
15
17
17
36
38
12
12
15
-
-
-
-
-
12
12
14
16
17
19
35
36
13
11
16
15
18
17
36
44
11
12
15
-
-
-
-
-
12
12
                   
17
16
18
18
37
38
12
12
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I believe the place-name 'HARTLEY' was derived from the original Saxon HEORT-LEA [or something very similar] brought into Britain by incoming tribes of 5thC Saxons, Angles and Jutes.

The tribes would have worshipped at the site of a Temple, Shrine or Well named after their Goddess, HEORTHA [HERTHA], the site being either here in Britain [possibly Kent] or in Saxony or Scandinavia [see 'Origins of the Name' page]

The 'HEORT-LEA' tribes would have named settlements in Britain after themselves. Today they are named HARTLEY.

They would have been peoples with Haplotype Group I1-a DNA ... Old Norse peoples [Saxons, Angles, Jutes and later, Danes, Vikings and Normans]

One HARTLEY test result shows Y-DNA belonging to the rare I1-a DYS 19=16 Haplotype Group ... The I1a DYS19=16 families in England and Scotland likely came from Scandinavia as part of the Angle, Saxon and Jute invasions of the 5th - 6th century or during Viking invasions beginning in about 800 AD. The present-day location of DYS19=16 in Scandinavia is more consistent with the historical location of Vikings than Angles, Saxons and Jutes. The founder of DYS19=16 must have been lived after 10,000 BC, when Scandinavia was finally free from the Ice Age. By evaluating the diversity of 21 extended haplotypes with DYS19=16 through the use of average squared difference calculations, it has been estimated that the common paternal line ancestor of was born about 1,400 years ago, or around 600AD. This sample size is small, but this relatively young age fits with a compact geography and low frequency in the population. I1a is the most common haplogroup in nearly all regions in Sweden. Within this haplogroup, the regions did not show any deviation among themselves except for the I1a haplotypes found in Värmland. This region differed significantly from two Swedish regions and both the Saami and Österbotten I1a lineages. No other Swedish region differed from the Saami or the Österbotten samples.

Looking at the National Geographic website on DNA results and the Atlas of the Human Journey, there is confirmation of a movement of peoples with I1-a Haplotype DNA [M253] into the British Isles, Normandy and Scandinavia after the Great Ice Age. The Haplotype is estimated to have first appeared about 15,000 - 20,000 years ago.
Before that, it is thought that more than 20,000 years ago the I1 lineage came to North West Europe from the Middle East and North Africa.

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