DNA results.

On the 19th of January I received notice of the results of the DNA test for Paul Hull of Belfast that I collected when I was there in October. I had already received notice of W Ivan Hull, a Reverend in Belfast, that his DNA did not match the Dungiven Hull line nor any other Hull line that had been tested. Paul, I thought, was a cousin to Reverend Hull but that proved to be not true and Paul ended up being related to our line. The results were reviewed by James Reynold Hull of Arizona and Paul is closely related to our line within the last 300 years. Paul's family is from Soldierstown or Aghalee, just Southwest of Lisburn and Belfast in the County of Antrim. He is even more closely related to one of the other DNA cousins a Thomas Hugh Hull. The next day, the 20th of January, Cynthia Hull our cousin frofm Australia sent documents that she had received from a Ross Hull who shared some of his family information which was about the same Hulls of Aghalee. Cynthia always trrumps any of my discoveries. From the documents that she sent me it shows that the Hulls of Soldierstown/Aghalee came in the mid 1600's to Ireland as soldiers and they came from the county of Lancashire in Northwest England, just above Liverpool. We are just in the early stages of this but if this all proves out the theory I am going to try to prove or disprove is that the DNA cousins in America (Rob, Winfred, Thomas Hugh, Phillip) all probably immigrated from these Aghalee Hulls and the Dungiven Hulls/Richard (Jay, Murray, Jim Hill) all left the same area and immigrated across Antrim to Londonderry during the 1700's or maybe a shade earlier and then went to Australia and the US in the 1800's. This theory would also connect all of these families to the original site of Hulls in Lancashire, England by way of the Belfast area. I have worked on this family line for almost 20 years and this is the first time that I think we have the potential to jump over the barrier of the Ireland Hulls.