How Irish is she? Part Four, the Careys

Now, for the last post of this series I'll be talking about my Father-in-Laws ancestors.  He comes from good Irish stock on his fathers side, but his mother had a much more diverse ancestry.

John Francis Carey	Georgeana Orr
My Father-in-Law
My Wife

John Francis Carey was 62.5% Irish, 18.75% English and 18.75 % Dutch.  His paternal Grandparents, Michael Carey and Bridget Thornton were both from Ireland.  On his maternal side, his Great-Grandmother, Margaret Ellen McCoy may also have been Irish, but I haven't been able to trace it back far enough yet.

Georgeana Orr was 12.5% Irish, 75% English, 6.3% German, 3.1% French, and 3.1% Swiss.  Her maternal Great-Grandmother, Alice Brandy was Irish.  Unfortunately, I do not have a lot of information on either the Carey or Orr side and can't even tell you where they were born in Ireland.

If we take this down a generation to my Father-in-Law, he ends up being 37.5% Irish, 46.9% English, 9.4% Dutch, 3.1% German, 1.6% French, and 1.6% Swiss.  He has also had his DNA tested and it ended up showing:

• Irish: 47%
• Europe West: 46%
• Scandinavia: 35
• Iberian Peninsula: <1%
• Great Britain: <1%
• Europe East: <1%
• Caucasus: <1%

Now, we can put this all together to look at my wife's ancestral makeup.  She is 34.4% Irish, 23.4% English, 14.1% German, 12.5% Swedish, 10.2% French, 4.7% Dutch, and 0.4% Swiss.  That makes her about 1.4% more Irish then me.  

Taking this one step further, our kids end up quit a mix.  33.7% Irish, 44.1% English, 7.8% German, 6.3% Swedish, 5.1% French, 2.4% Dutch, 0.4% Swiss, 0.2% Welsh, and 0.1% Scottish.  Guess they really represent the melting pot that is America.