This thread is getting no further takers in the Common Room so I thought it better to move it here. Earlier posts can be found there in the thread "Lengthy Conundrum". I'm hoping that DNA experts might be able to at least narrow down who is N's father - this is for her, not me.
Please find enclosed a mini-tree in Notepad listing all known deceased descendants of Elizabeth Roberts, and known living ones in disguise where relevant. Three DNA matches are shown, as are a number of men who could be N's father, marked by an asterisk. These are by no means complete - the ?s refer to redacted people and unknown descendants (if any) of men who were single in 1939.
VH is N's late mother, displayed on the same possible generation line as her father. To recap, VH was a student in Birmingham in 1966 when she became pregnant with N. She later married another man who brought her daughter up. VH always refused to discuss the matter, but it was always believed that the father was an older man with a family, rather than a fellow student - but even if he was, he would not be younger than V.
The three DNA matches centiMorgans vary presumably because each is from a different generation. The father surely cannot be CW's brother or stepbrother because the match would be much stronger. Arthur Stenson junior only had a daughter (until he remarried in the 50's anyway) so the father must surely be a Hancox or a Lee?
The trouble is that the matches are all from the 2nd marriage onward, but most of those people lived in Nottingham and nearby, none went to the West Midlands conurbation, where all the Lees lived. The men starred in those later branches all had young families in the 60s - not that that would stop a man having an affair, I agree, but to do so in Birmingham would require a fair amount of stealth.
The exception is Joseph S Merchant for whom we have 1932-1990 but no marriage - he could be anywhere but N thinks he'd be too old to be her father, but maybe he lied about his age?
So the question is, do N's matches make a Hancox father more likely, or is a Lee father an equal possibility? (TB has not replied, PH has but has no knowledge of a link.) It's a shame there are no Lee matches but that branch has only been on the tree a short while, hopefully there will be some at some point.
Thanks in advance, Chris for N.
Since writing the above I've deduced that CW's brothers could be in the picture, but that pHs father JH and uncle GH are probably not, because if they were N's father PH would have more cMs in common with N than he does. I couldn't work out if the same logic would apply to the descendants of Harold and Gertrude Hancox.
No matches yet from anyone in the Lee branch.
