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Travelling People / Re: Staffordshire Travellers
« on: Friday 06 May 22 14:10 BST (UK)  »
Oops, didn't get a notification :-\

I believe so as this line of the tree is the only one that I have little information about. I've managed to follow the rest back for a few hundred years and found nothing indicating European origins.

The ~12% Eastern European (Hungary, Romania, Poland, Ukraine) indicates that a great-grandparent was full blood European. Of course, it may be a complete red herring, as the estimates are not always accurate, but it makes me wonder still nonetheless.




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Travelling People / Re: Staffordshire Travellers
« on: Sunday 06 March 22 04:12 GMT (UK)  »
I just wanted to say thanks for all the valuable information that has been presented on this thread.

I was pretty thrown when my DNA profile came back as 1/8th Eastern European as I was only aware of having English ancestry. All the other branches of my family tree were complete and definitely from the Staffs and Leeds areas, but I'd had difficulty going up my paternal grandmother's branch.

Part of the issue was that my GM's mother's surname was marked as 'neald' on her birth certificate, which I initially thought was a mistake, but upon further research discovered was a spelling variation of Neild.

From this I traced my tree through to my GGM Maria Neild (1875), daughter of Thomas Neild (1845) whose parents were Thomas Neild (1817) and Maria Hodgkins (1818).

Through this thread and Garen's site I managed to get enough pointers to untangle the mystery and also learn a lot about the way of life and 'adventures' of the travelling people back then.  :)

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