Marriage Bond for George Routledge and Grace Routledge
From the Carlisle Marriage Bonds:1 Feb 1763 George Routledge, Raw, Bc Yeo and Grace Routledge, Oakshaw, Bc. At Bc Bond: Thomas Armstrong, Lowgrains., Bc. Page 4 [at Bc: George & Grace,...
View ArticleThomas Routledge and Elizabeth Storye
So I am back to Thomas Routledge and Elizabeth Storye as the parents of Grace Routledge. The will abstract turned out to be too good to be true! I should have clued in when I saw George of Oakshaw and...
View ArticleJane Morgan (circa 1750s-60s - 1839?)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 37Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
View ArticlePincombe and ydna - a match
The ydna results for my 3rd cousin once removed are now available and there is a 24 on 25 match with our known 5th cousin in Australia. That is 5th cousin to me and fourth cousin once removed to the...
View ArticlePincombe yDNA and its ramifications with respect to the Pincombe - Pinkham...
The matches in the Pincombe yDNA this past week have been phenomenal. I had not been able to persuade my closest Pincombe cousins to test (all third cousins) but at last long I do have a 3rd cousin...
View ArticleHow interested are people in DNA testing?
We spent the past week visiting my husband's relatives in southwestern Ontario and that included the Schultz family reunion as well as smaller visits with individual/groups of cousins. At every group...
View ArticleGeorge Lywood (1750 - possibly 1796)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 38Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
View ArticleNew York State Family History Conference - 17-19 Sep 2015
We have been away most of September although I have actually blogged quite a bit compared to this past year. The beginning part we were down to Stratford for the Stratford Shakespearian Theatre and it...
View Article70 as a milestone
Turning each new decade I have found myself intrigued by age and it started with turning 10 years of age. An entire decade old and I can remember thinking about that just as clearly now as if it had...
View ArticleMore results from 23 and Me Ethnicity
A second brother of mine has tested and I have his ethnicity results to go along with the ethnicity results of another brother and myself reported on earlier. Myself Brother 1...
View ArticleElizabeth Lanham (1754 - 1829)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 39Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
View ArticleWill of Archibald Forster 1767
I received a transcription from a correspondent in Australia of the Will of Archibald Forster. The abstract I have published several times on my blog and a few weeks ago I published a revised abstract...
View ArticlePhasing recommenced
Recommenced phasing of the parent's DNA with one section X being worked on by one sibling and I am working on Chromosome 22. Wanted to try a particular pattern working on the shortest one and it does...
View ArticleBlake Newsletter Volume 4, Issue 4
Blake NewsletterTable of Contents 1. 100th member Blake DNA study FT DNA 2. Galway Blake family 3. Blake one name study 4. Cornwall Blake family 5. Family Finder Results1...
View ArticleElizabeth Peck (1758 - 1830)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 40Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
View ArticleMary Charley/Charlie (1738 - 1797 or 1803)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 41Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
View ArticleBlake yDNA study at FT DNA
A new member of the team looking after the Blake yDNA study. Patti Blake Goff has family lore that her Blake line (father was a Blake) descends from the Blake family at Galway. She joins the team to...
View ArticleBack to the Cornwall Blake family
Working on the 1841 census for Cornwall and extracting Blake entries and entering them into Legacy. This does appear to be working as I am finding most of the people on the 1841 census thus far. I...
View ArticlePhilip Rowcliffe (1721 - 1802)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 42Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
View ArticleStepping out of my Conservative box
I usually avoid politics partly because I am a Conservative and by nature that is something really personal and I prefer to just get along with it and vote that way and have done so for most of my...
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