Blake - Sedgwick and autosomal DNA
One of the most amazing extras of doing autosomal DNA is proving lines or at least finding matches that can best be explained because of a paper trail. I have five Sedgwick matches on my AncestryDNA...
View ArticleAbstracts of Somerset Wills. Series 1-6, F. Brown
Abstracts of Somerset Wills. 1st Series. Brown, F.Thomas Siderfin 84 (Indentee, no family value)Abstracts of Somerset Wills. 2nd Series. Brown, F.no entryAbstracts of Somerset Wills., 3rd Series....
View ArticleJohn Rew/Rue (1730-1771)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 43Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
View ArticleThe Kent family and the Blake family of Cornwall and others - my work at the...
I have Grace Kent married to Robert Siderfin 5 Feb 1752 at Selworthy. The only Grace I was ever able to find that would fit in was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Kent and she was baptized 25 Apr...
View ArticleCornwall Blake family in the 1841 census
Working away on the 1841 census and have complete the first 40 families on Find My Past. I was not able to place nine of these entries into my family tree file. But the 1841 is the most difficult as...
View ArticleGrace Kent (1731 - 1799)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 44Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
View Article1939 Register for the UK
I wanted to check out this register to see if my great grandmother Maria Jane Blake had survived to this time period. I knew that she outlived her husband Edward Blake (died in 1916) and that she can...
View ArticleIncrease the taxes is probably the answer
I wrote the following to the members for Orleans to the Provincial Parliament and similar ones to the Premier and the Health Minister where Health Care was concerned.To date I have not yet had a reply...
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Robert Gray (1739 - 1808)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 45Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
View ArticleThe Pre-Christmas time
Looking back over this past year I am seriously wondering where it has gone! It is nearly a year since our second grandchild was born and life has moved immeasurably quickly. We have watched our older...
View ArticleJane Hilton (1739 - 1824)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 46Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
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Prayers for Paris and the path ahead
We have visited Paris, France several times now and it is a beautiful city. The people are friendly and helpful when you wander about. We spent most of our time in the middle of the City where all the...
View ArticleMission in Syria/Iraq and 25,000 refugees
Once I have gotten started on my political soapbox I guess I might as well as not get it out of my system.I think that Prime Minister Trudeau is right to bring home the CF-18s. Our role as mentors is...
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John Cobb (1750 - 1837)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 47Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
View ArticleI2a1b1a1 - S2703 further subdivided to I2a1b1a1 - Y14338
The latest ISOGG tree has now been updated for my brother's I haplogroup. This is now referred to as I2a1b1a1 with S2703 being the terminal SNP thus far. S2703 is one of the SNPs tested at BritainsDNA....
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John Welch (1756 - 1812)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 48Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
View ArticleNewsletter for Pincombe-Pinkham one name study
A long time in the thinking process and an equally long time actually being written, the first issue of the Pincombe-Pinkham newsletter will be published 1 Dec 2015 on this blog and available also on...
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Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 1
Pincombe-Pinkham NewsletterTable of Contents 1. Coat of Arms of the Pincombe Family of South Molton2. yDNA Study of the Pincombe-Pinkham Family3. Autosomal Study of the descendants of Robert...
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Margaret Brockhouse (1754 - 1837)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 49 Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
View ArticleCornwall Census and Blake
Working away on the Cornwall Census and it is a slow process. Managed to have two colds in the last month which have rather slowed me down. Until I tested myself at 23 and Me I thought it was just...
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