Buckinghamshire Bastardy Bonds / 1924 ? /

[CaroleW]

As you have his birth mothers name - have you traced her origins?

[TravelDog]

Yes, I have located my Dads living half brothers & sisters, and traced their birth mothers family back 4 generations with DNA also confirming certificates. They are farmers from Higham Ferrers, Rushden.

My Dads birth mother was married to a man who had gone to Canada - whilst he was away my Dad was conceived - there is a record of the divorce on the National Archive - unfortunately, the archive doesn’t disclose who my Dads birth father was.

My Dads informal adoption records also show nothing.

I found my Dads half brother who had traced their mother in the 1970s - but although he asked about who his father was - his mother would not divulge anything.


 

 

[CaroleW]

From Ancestry DNA I suspect Sidney Young must have fathered a child around 1862 in or around Newton Blossomville possibly with Herodias Woods

So although Sidney Young may have fathered an illegitimate child before he married - is there any actual DNA evidence to link that child to the Woods family or is it supposition based on the fact he was lodging with them in 1861?   

[TravelDog]

At the moment completely supposition based on the fact he was lodging with them in 1861?   

But I was intrigued to see that Joel Woods & Herodias Woods are living at separate addresses in the 1871 census. 


I have no DNA link yet to the Woods family - I will have to ask one of the descendants of Florence Woods to do an Ancestry DNA test. And see if they have a connection to Sidney Young & Wiltshire. I have located the descendants  but not made contact yet.

Also intriguingly, as I wrote earlier my Dad has a strong DNA connection to the Finch family & The Ruffhead family - and William John Woods marries Elizabeth Rebecca Finch - she is descended from Finch (father), Ruffhead (mother) & Ross (grandmother).

[CaroleW]

I wouldn't read too much into the fact that Joel & Herodias are at separate addresses in 1871.  He was living & working on his employers premises.  If his home address & work address were perhaps too far apart for daily travel - it wouldn't be unusual for him to "live in"

[TravelDog]

I wonder if Herodias would have been noted in the 1871 census as head of house, if Joel was just working away?

To put my supposition to the test I think my only option is to contact the Woods descendants and see if a Sidney Young connection appears in their DNA results.

Or I suppose they might have family knowledge.