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Post by spikeharwood on Jan 25, 2022 16:04:36 GMT -5
(I am a bit tired at the moment and did have a couple of ales earlier)] That sounds like tired AND emotional But good point about the age range for having children. I use 48 years too....now I remember where I got it from! There are very few exceptions. At the other end, I found an 18 year old woman getting married recently. I don't think I've ever seen in Cornwall anyone younger than that.
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Post by Cornish Terrier on Jan 25, 2022 23:17:49 GMT -5
Because I have had to expand my searches quite some distance outwards and then work back in order to try and narrow down potential links to my early Trewhella families and also because when I try to help someone with a query I add the particular family of interest at the time into my database and expand it searching for answers it has resulted in my own database becoming much larger than that of the average researcher. As a result of the larger sample base I have seen numerous examples of brides under 18 and in fact just yesterday I found one involved with the Eddy family who would have been little more than 16 at marriage. I also have several families in my database with more than 20 children to the one mother and in fact I believe I have one hidden somewhere in the database where the child count was up around 28!!! So if you factor that into the age-range equation there is every chance the bride involved will be still in her teens. So even though not common it is not actually rare to find brides as young as 16 so expanding the net is a good idea especially in situations such as with Mary Blight. Another point to consider with this strategy is that sometimes we can be 'blinded by facts'. For example, I am sure we have all fallen foul at some stage to the 'fact' that x was age 75 when he died when the truth of the matter the old devil was actually 87!! In a case where you do have some so called 'facts' to work with always consider the possibility those 'facts' might not be as factual as what they seem. Of course we don't have those sort of facts to consider in the case of Mary Blight but .... CT
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Post by donne on Jan 26, 2022 15:26:58 GMT -5
Hi Roger, I wouldn’t get too hung up about not being a DNA match. When we get that far back the chances of descendants matching can be as low as 10%. I’d be curious though, if you were to put Winnen and variations separately into the surnames in trees of DNA matches how many people come up. I’m on FTDNA (are you in the Cornish Project?), MH, GEDmatch and LivingDNA. I’ve got a 23andMe kit when I get around to doing it. I’m A251986 on GEDmatch and my sister is T395186. Cheers S
Thanks for the links to your GEDmatch kits, Spike. I am A084486 on GEDmatch and I have run their matching tool on that and yours and your sister's kits. No surprise that the GEDmatch matching tool predicts no match. It's only when I drop the segment length to 3cM that any matches show up and then not on Ch16 where I found the significant matching segment with the descendant of Mary DUNN. I will as you suggest try searching for Winnen on the family trees of my other matches - seems to have a large number of variations to look out for! I have done a Y-DNA test and registered with the Cornish Project on FTDNA, expecting to find my male surname line. In the event, I found only a single DUNN cousin and unfortunately the family had only very sketchy details of the origins of the original emigrant who was actually the subject of another thread I started somewhere on this forum. My Y-DNA match is quite strong with the DUNN cousin at 67 markers but I have over 3000 matches at the 12 marker level which I suppose are mostly spurious. Just checked the thread on the Y-DNA match - it's called "Richard DUNN 1837-1923, New Zealand Emigrant"
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Post by donne on May 4, 2022 15:57:15 GMT -5
Hi, Roger, I have owed you this one
Thanks Zib, PM received and attachment to your original message downloaded. If I have plotted the generations correctly, it would seem that you are my 10th cousin once removed! Thanks for your help - I shall study the Tremayne Family History with renewed interest. Roger
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Post by zibetha on May 6, 2022 2:21:59 GMT -5
Always good to find a Cornish cousin! and join in on the search.
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