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You beat me to it, Bookbox. Just about to post the same thing!

Fermor's Evidences, in connection to Caldecote in Towcester, would undoubtedly be information from Sir Thomas Fermor, 4th Earl of Pomfret, or his estate papers, of which there are boxes and boxes at the Northants Record Office. Last I looked, they were roughly calendared, but not indexed!

I've just reported the following message to Ancestry:

Hi there,,,,
I hope this message finds you well. Please accept my apologies if this reaches you unexpectedly—it was never my intention to intrude. I came across your profile after been redirected from google (where I searched for your surname) to this website and felt compelled to reach out regarding something significant related to your surname.
As someone new to this platform, I’m still navigating how things work, so I sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding. This matter could be truly impactful, and I’d be honoured to share the details with you privately.
If you’re open to it, kindly contact me at {email address}, and I’ll provide the full information and documentations I can’t share here. Thank you for your time, and I look forward to the possibility of connecting.
Warm regards,"

Newly created account, and no-one is going to Google one of the more common surnames in the country and land up on an Ancestry profile.

No new matches or Common Ancestors for some time.  I suspect Common Ancestors may have been replaced by Clusters, which since I don't have pro tools I don't get.

I got a new Common Ancestor only yesterday. I have Clusters, but not enough close matches for it to work, apparently.
Can't wait for them to expand it - I'm hoping it might solve (probably a forlorn hope) a mystery or two. My great grandfather was an only child (possibly illegitimate), and he married an only child (possibly adopted). I'm the only descendant who has tested. It doesn't make for a lot of obvious matches! Such matches that have the same surname in their trees are very small.

The ramifications are endless. If you carried a recessive gene for some illness, would you want to know whether your prospective partner also carried it? And if they did, would you then ditch them?

I now know I've passed the "miscarriage gene" on to my daughter, so my grandchildren are IVF, but a distant cousin found both her children have Ataxia-Telangiectasia (AT) (affects nervous system, immune system etc etc progressively), and one of them has since died of it.

My junior school wasn't far from John's house. One of my classmates was dared to go and knock on John's door. She knocked, and was so scared she ran off, but it turned out there was no-one in!

That was 1965. A few years later, when Penny Lane came out, I was going to (secondary) school every day on a bus that passed Penny Lane!