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Thanks for taking the trouble, Jill.  No worries.

Happy Christmas

Peter

Has anyone who's had a DNA test found a connection back to Samuel Stubbs, a builder, who died in Hull on 3rd August 1818 aged 61?  I have lots of circumstantial evidence linking my 3xG grandfather to him, but can find no proof.  It is possible Samuel was born in York, the son of John Stubbs, a basketmaker.

...and also some for George Funk.

Just come across this.  Most interesting.  My mother-in-law's cousin Elsie Mallows married John Funk, a pork butcher of 50-52 Ellesmere Road, in Sheffield in April 1937.  John was the son of George John Funk and Margerete Sophie Kantenwein.  They married at St Philip's church Sheffield on 13th December 1885.  This ties in with info from Richard Funk on the database.  John Funk, now known as John Ford, died on 12th November 1942.  At the time, he and Elsie kept the Brunswick Hotel on Haymarket.  His mother died a couple of years later aged 79 (she had lived with her unmarried sister Sophia Kantenwein at 52 Crabtree Lane Pitsmoor.  I have noted the likely birthplaces of John George Funk and Margarete Sophia Kantenwein in Richard Funks database, but in the 1901 census this was referred to (for both) as something like "Brabe Sabfeld", Germany.  Can anyone suggest what this should be?

By the way, I note there is still an F Funk, Port Butcher trading at 65 Middlewood Road, Sheffield and in my 1991 telephone directory there was an R Funk living in Sheffield 6.  Richard, perhaps?