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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: The Demolished Brick Walls Thread
« on: Today at 15:15 »
Quote from: 4b2 on Today at 09:54
Quote from: Petros on Today at 08:23
I finally broke through on this one via DNA. Several DNA matches trace back to a BRUNNING line in Great Waldingfield, Suffolk ca 1700. While the parentage of my 3x great grandfather remains elusive it is clear from DNA matches who his grandparents were.

How reasonably can you whittle down the candidates based on age, location, and anything else?

It is far from perfect but I have a cluster of 6 matches in the 10-25 cM range who all link back to the earlier BRUNNINGs. They also match my 3rd cousin and her son who also descend from our errant sailor ancestor

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: The Demolished Brick Walls Thread
« on: Today at 08:23 »
Quote from: Petros on Monday 28 October 24 11:11 GMT (UK)
A nice story on how a brick wall was demolished.  I wish I could do the same for one of mine, the most recent male ancestor who is a brick wall. A sailor who appears in Cornwall when he marries in 1814, almost certainly when in the Royal Navy, remains there until the late 1830s and then disappears! One spelling of his name suggests he came from Suffolk but DNA matches are elusive.

I finally broke through on this one via DNA. Several DNA matches trace back to a BRUNNING line in Great Waldingfield, Suffolk ca 1700. While the parentage of my 3x great grandfather remains elusive it is clear from DNA matches who his grandparents were.

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Cornwall / PASCOE- GRIBBLE connection
« on: Tuesday 03 February 26 10:29 GMT (UK)  »
My 4 xGGF was Anthony PASCOE of St Just (1761-1853) with the family in Constantine in the 17th century.

I have a significant number of DNA matches with descendants of the GRIBBLE family, latterly from Camborne.

Is anyone aware of connections between the two families?

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Asymmetry of shared matches
« on: Friday 30 January 26 13:50 GMT (UK)  »
I have two (mystery) matches S (24 cM, small tree) and A (20 cM, no tree) who are shared matches with each other but no one else. However, I have multiple matches in the 15-40 cM range who show as having one or both of S and A as shared matches. Often these are the only shared matches I have with those other matches.

How can this be explained?

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Cambridgeshire / Re: Susan LARKINS/STANDEN Gamlingay
« on: Tuesday 13 January 26 12:19 GMT (UK)  »
Elias certainly made tracing him difficult. variations in christian name and surname. It certainly looks like he lost contact with all his Standen relations in Cambridgeshire. Possibly because he was illiterate and moved to London after his mother died.

Thanks all. I seem to have alot more 4th cousins descended from his granddaughter

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Cambridgeshire / Re: Susan LARKINS/STANDEN Gamlingay
« on: Monday 12 January 26 11:17 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks all I've just caught up with the recent replies and that certainly looks to be the right Barbara. Unfortunately none of the names of the relatives listed in the newspaper article seem to be from her Standen relatives.
Elias still appears elusive. Neither the 1871 nor 1881 census show any Elias * born ca 1841 in Sussex

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Cambridgeshire / Re: Susan LARKINS/STANDEN Gamlingay
« on: Tuesday 06 January 26 11:29 GMT (UK)  »
Apologies I should have said with her 2 surviving younger children. Their daughter Sarah is the only child that I have been able to identify post-1861

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Cambridgeshire / Re: Susan LARKINS/STANDEN Gamlingay
« on: Tuesday 30 December 25 09:51 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks, don;t know how I missed that one

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Cambridgeshire / Susan LARKINS/STANDEN Gamlingay
« on: Tuesday 30 December 25 08:42 GMT (UK)  »
Susan LARKINS was born in 1814 in Gamlingay and married Charles STANDEN there on 5 November 1836. They then lived in Salehurst, Sussex where their 4 children were born. She returned to Gamlingay with her 2 surviving children, Elias born 1841, Barbara born 1851 both born Robertsbridge, after Charles' death in JAnuary 1853.
In the 1861 census they were living at Church Street, Gamlingay but I can find no trace of any of them thereafter

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