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I also accessed the Crossroads Presbyterian church records many years ago when they were listed under Co Donegal but did find this site below last year.  My gt grandparetns are buried there and many of my mothers aunts and uncles were baptised there. My gt grandparents headstone and many others were vandalised and were missing some years before my parents visited in 1982 (a cousin visited in the 70s and they were still there then).

cotyroneireland.com/churchrecord/crossroads6.html

You will find more links e.g. to baptisms at the bottom of the page.

Cheers

Linda

Hi Andrew

Brian has moved on to the early members of the Taughboyne Colhouns. I am not sure if it is possible but I actually do have an autosomal match to a descendant of the Elizabeth Colhoun of Haw, who married a Labbadash Colhoun. Through  grandson Gustavus Colhoun of Raphoe.  I think  Brian estimates Elizabeth Colhoun, sister of John who died 1755, was born in the 1690s.

Gustavus, b1765,  grandson of Elizabeth, emigrated to Pennsylvania.  I have difficulty believing this DNA stretch. But if true then Andrew Colhoun of Corncammmon b c1780 and died 1865, is the source of my DNA links to his children's families.  I did find the DNA match through a shared match to one of the Andrew Colhoun family.

Cheers

Linda

And sorry I keep calling Edmund Buxton, Edward. Edmund Buxton born c1722 married Lydia Johnson and they were the parents of William Buxton born c1747 at Fenny Bentley who married Mary Bottom.

William and Mary were the parents of William b 1800 who emigrated to Tasmania and of another Edmund Buxton b 1798 who married an Elizabeth Frith of Mayfield Staffordshire.

My Frith family were from Tissington.

Hi Ciderdrinker

Thank you so much. Yes that does all make sense regarding the Buxtons.

As you say it is surprising that I could have DNA matches with descendants of Edward Buxton due to inheriting DNA through Jane Buxton.

The best I was hoping for would be finding DNA matches siblings of Elizabeth Cantrell, as I do have matches in the siblings of William Burton. A few of those matches are >20cM, which Is how I originally found them (apart from the one who belongs to William's brother John Burton and Hannah Steele, who I made contact with in the 1990s through the Genealogical Research Directory).

But so far I do not have any Cantrell DNA matches. So I was thinking maybe I got more Burton DNA than Cantrell in the DNA lottery.  However I am only about quarter of the way through the 78 tress that have Benjamin Cantrell and Jane Buxton.

I certainly do not match all the Tasmanian descendants of Edward Buxton. Just 5 at this point who are known to have Buxton DNA. All 13 cM or less  shared with me, as are their shared matches with me. Except the match who led me to them, who is a 21 cM match to me and also matches one of my 3rd cousins who is also  doubly descended from William Burton. I cannot link that match to any known family in my line to the Burtons. That match shares 2 of the 5 with Buxton DNA plus another 2 of their other 7 shared matches.

I will pass on your Buxton information to the two Tasmanian's whose trees go back to Edward Buxton of Fenny Bentley. Despite being a Kiwi and living close to Australia, I do not have any Australian Ancestors, though there are the occasional convicts in families of siblings of Ancestors in my tree.

Cheers

Linda

I think I ran out of words so could not complete my signature. This time I will try to be briefer.

I just found the marriage of Benjamin Cantrel and Jane Buxton in the images of the Bradbourne records which I noted started in bout 1712. I worked back from Elizabeth Burton's baptism in 1721. Only that patism was registered as Buxton. I know John Burton had a daughter Elizabeth who married JOhn Fox as they were also named in John Burton's Will. The Elizabeth "Buxton" bapt 1721 was the daughter of John and Sarah. JOhn Burton was married to Sarah (Wragg).

So the Jane "buxton" who married Benjamin Cantrel may have been a Burton as the handwriting is the same as in Elizabeth's baptism.

However there is no Jane in John Burton's Will. Though Jane is thought to have died 1762.

John bequeathed "to my son Thomas BURTON” his “possession and tenant-right of the farm or tenement I hold under the Rt Honorable Lord TOWNSEND". To his daughter Hannah widow of Thomas BELFIELD he left £10. To the rest of the family £5 each. These were named in the following order: sons; John, William and Joseph, daughters-in-law; Elizabeth widow of his son Edward and Mary widow of his son Benjamin, and lastly daughters; Grace wife of John ALLEN, Elizabeth widow of John FFOX, and Mary wife of Joseph RADFORD.

Grace and John's birth's  appear to pre date these Bradbourne records. I have DNA matches in the families of John, Hannah and Thomas.

Cheers

Linda