Edward Coffey (d. 1716) who married Ann 'Annister' Dulin has been detached from parents.
Disputed origins
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Coffey-5
Some sources give Edward Coffey, Sr. birth in Virginia as the son of John Coffey (Born in Ireland) and Mary Mary Ann Joliffe but this is in error. The Coffey Cousins Clearinghouse has investigated this extensively, but can find no evidence of such a relationship.
Apparently the basis for John "Coffey" as father of Edward originated from the misinterpretation of old style handwriting on a Virginia land patent. Fred Coffey has studied the question and presents a well-thought-out argument that there was no John Coffey.[1] He cites Dr. Marvin D. Coffey in his 1984 work, James Bluford Coffey His Ancestors and Descendants in America. Apparently Greer misread the name, and listed a John Coffee, arrived in Elizabeth City in 1637, sponsored by Nicholas Hill. The mistake was corrected by Nugent who read it as "John Coffin (or Scoffin)." When Marvin D. Coffey reviewed the original himself, he found that Nugent was correct. The name appears first as Coffin and then later in the document, it includes the old style "S" at the beginning making it Scoffin. After an exhaustive search, Dr. Coffey could find no John Coffey, nor any Mary Jolliffe, in the right place and time to be Virginia parents of Edward Coffey.
DNA seems to show that the Coffey family originated in the Wexford, Kilkenny and Tipperary Counties of Ireland. It also seems that the Irish immigrant, Peter Coffey was definitely related.
