Continuing with research

 Although I have not made any conclusions the review of the Rawlings/Cotterill matches on Chromosome 7 were certainly very interesting and that one section of my 7th chromosome is Rawlings is quite indisputable and the other section simply needs more research but does appear to be Cotterill. Since I do not inherit any Cotterill because my lines do not directly intersect with the cousins that I do match and we share 5x great grandparents in William Rawlins and Mary Ford, it would appear that I have acquired Cotterill in that particular chromosome but more work is needed on the trees of the matches that are within that grouping. Chromosome 7 is now complete and I am working on Chromosome 6 where there are 128 matches so a longer research period to complete that chromosome. However, I do have fourteen cousins to assist me in that task and at least one from every grandparent line. On this chromosome all five siblings are quite different from each other which perhaps lends to the large number of matches available (I do not collect all matches although did tend to collect anything over 19 cM in the past. Mostly now I only collect 25 cM or greater (single length). 

I think given a population of 40 million, 49,000 EVs coming into the country is a fairly small number It is a less expensive car meaning our young people can afford to purchase it and they will be a much more mobile part of our population over the next few years as they work on improving their skill sets and finding jobs that help them along that path. Each family could afford two of them to make life easier and more flexible especially if they have children. Times will be somewhat more difficult as we move forward in diversifying our trade base. Plus we have all sorts of new industrial aims to follow through on and complete over the next twenty years. It will be exciting I think for Canada and for our young people.  I would say to Premier Ford that he has not done anything to improve our situation in the last year and wasting money on frivolous unnecessary items like removing the webcams which were capturing speeders particularly in school zones was a mistake and a waste of money. We need the Trans Canada Highway across Northern Ontario widened to four lanes and as soon as possible - the traffic on that road is too heavy; Toronto doesn't need an underpass - the north needs that road. Clinging to the past does not work; we must forge ahead into this future that the Prime Minister has painted. One recalls I did not vote Liberal being Conservative in most of my voting years but I do tire of waste of money very quickly and there has been too much of it in Ontario lately. 

Another heavy snowfall cleared away and we have a good base now for skiing. I am taking a rest for the moment but hopefully still snow here in March when I will take up skiing once again. It is pretty cold out there for this old person! I can enjoy the snow from the inside of the house. Trees all coated with white and looking quite ethereal. God is in the Heavens watching and waiting for us to do the right thing. Love they neighbour as thyself and we will be following God's law and much better for it. Cloudy out there and some snow is promised. January can sometimes be so cold with a bright sun and blue sky but today it is cold and cloudy. 

Drinking tea and solitaire puzzles to work on before I start into the matches for Chromosome 6. The first two done yesterday were interesting.  The first one is Blake with our 2x great grandparents John Blake and Ann (Farmer) Blake in common. The second the same so a good beginning with two matches already separated into great grandparents. 

 

A good research day

 Chromosome 7 has good long lengths of Rawlings/Cotterill and quite a few matches over the entire length of Rawlings/Cotterill in total putting them all together. What does it all mean? Since I do not descend from the marriage of Mary Rawlins to Stephen Cotterell 28 Jan 1764 at Enford, Wiltshire nor do I descend from the marriage of Mary Cottrell (grand daughter of Mary and Stephen) to William Rawlins. Mary Rawlins is my 4th great grandaunt and her grand daughter Mary Cottrell is my 2nd cousin 4x removed. We all share my 5x great grandparents William Rawlins and Mary Ford who married 30 Sep 1741 at Wylye, Wiltshire. I do have Cotterill and Cotterill descendants who match me so one is left to assume the match that I share with them is Rawlings but there are lengths that do not have Rawlings matches as far as I can tell. But this length of chromosome that I have on Chromosome 7 which extends almost the entire length of the chromosome (just 3 cM at the end is Blake/Knight) has proven to be most interesting. It just happens that this particular chromosome is very heavy on the Rawlings grandparent side for me and overall I inherited more than the 25% Rawlings when one looks at inheriting from grandparents with 50% coming from each parent so 25% possibly from each grandparent but my Rawlings is more than 32%. 

Looking at Chromosome 7 with just ten matches left to do all of the total length of the chromosome I inherited is covered by matches with the exception of 35 cM to 70 cM with the total length of the chromosome from 0 to 156 cM where I have a crossover that takes me to Blake for the last 3 cM. Two of the individuals are known to me that match on this chromosome and both are 3rd c 1xr living in England actually where most of my Rawlings family live other than Australia, Canada and a few in the United States. These two known cousins occupy from 106 cM to 156 cM. They have not inherited any Cotterill from the earlier generations but are related to descendants as I am including four of the matches and in this small chart I am just looking at 19 matches in total (the two known cousins may match some of the others but it does not show up in my charting). I am able though to say that from 77 cM to 156 cM is Rawlings and that includes 12 of the 19 matches. By luck and chance one of the matches has a derivative of the surname Cotterill/Cotterell which doesn't prove anything but is interesting but the other great part is that this match has a second match with me and runs from 28 cM to 34 cM. Of the remaining seven matches five of them are matching in this length between 28 cM to 34 cM. Just two matches (siblings) are outside of this particular grouping. At this point I am not concluding that the group from 0 to 27 cM is Cotterill without Rawlings because I have not recorded small lengths of matching (the group from 0 to 35 may well be both Rawlings and Cotterill in their ancestry). Tracing down the two siblings is probably a good plan so will think about that but it is the first time that I have had sufficient matches (and it caught my interest as I have not been thinking very deeply about it as I have made this trek through the chromosomes designing a database to produce a phased set of great grandparents). Rather I thought to leave that to the completed database to extract for me using AI. What we know about twelve of the matches is that they have Rawlings and do likely belong to the descendants of William Rawlings and Mary Ford because they resemble my two cousins who do not have a possible Cotterill line in their ancestry charting them back but would match any Rawlins/Rawlings that is shared. The group of five share their length with an individual with a derivative of the Cotterill/Cotterell name and as I check their trees I may also find Rawlins which is a future endeavour but they do not appear to match my two cousins known to me. The remaining two match three siblings on the Rawlings chromosome. Indeed four out of five siblings have various lengths of Rawlings matching the above matches here and there. 

So the task today is to complete the last ten matches and I shall set myself to do that 

Must do my solitaire puzzles but first a cup of tea to make. I already had my breakfast as it is Collection day and I was out early putting out the blue bins and the green bin. Life has changed and it is changing rapidly for Canada as we work hard to make ourselves Tariff Proof and we have no idea what is happening with USMCA/MUSCA/CUSMA which comes up for review later this year. But necessity is always the mother of invention and we are on that path as quickly as possible to protect jobs and increase industry. We must be careful  not to waste money on items that are, at the moment, unimportant to the aim of making ourselves Tariff Proof.  There does need to be a push towards manufacturing in Ontario particularly of small motor appliances like dishwashers, washing machines, dryers and the list is endless. Time for great improvements in these devices and an opportunity to start up businesses lost to competition during the NAFTA/CUSMA days. I have to say that my ShopVac does a great job as a vacuum but the noise is incredible; I would like to buy a new vacuum one of these days and there are a lot of opportunities for small businesses to be created particularly in Ontario where so many jobs have been lost because we are not Tariff Proof. I would say overall Auto Pact/NAFTA/CUSMA gave a good life to North Americans over the past sixty years but decisions have been made that make this cross-border trading difficult because we are not Tariff Proof. The Americans are our best friends and neighbours (one cannot share a border the length of ours and not be good friends and neighbours) and will continue to be but until we are tariff proof we must continue to support Canadian businesses that are not Tariff Proof. It is cold in Canada and many Canadians still go south but a large group (no doubt shivering most days) have elected to stay here and help us to become Tariff Proof. But the days will come when the traffic again increases going south especially during the long cold winters in Canada. In the meantime Tariff Proof is what we are heading towards. 

  

Heavy snowfall

 We are having a heavy snowfall but only 10 cm predicted but at the moment it is fairly thick coming down although not so much that the distance vision is limited. Just a lovely white snowfall on this beautiful world that the Creator produced and gave to us at a later time to protect and cherish.

Yesterday finished the cleaning and worked on the matches for chromosome 7. This one is very interesting as there is a length that is inherited by pretty much all of my close cousins that I have found testing all the way back to John Pincombe and Mary Charly who married at Bishops Nympton, Devon  8 Nov 1767. Their six children with their descendants are the progenitors of many of the Pincombe families in the Bishops Nympton area. Although John had a brother William (both sons of John Pincombe and Grace Manning who married 20 Mar 1725 at Bishops Nympton) William's only child, a son, William died at the age of 21 (his parents William Pincombe married Grace Smyth 13 Jun 1758 at North Molton). John and William also had a sister Grace who married John Butcher 31 Mar 1755 at Bishops Nympton But I have yet to trace their two surviving daughters beyond their baptism (another daughter and only son died as infants/young children). John (married to Grace Manning) was the only son of William Pincombe and Mary Vicary who married 17 Jun 1685 at Bishops Nympton. The only other sibling was Joan who was buried in 1726 at Bishops Nympton. This William traces back to John Pincombe and Johane Blackmoore who married 25 Sep 1655 at Bishops Nympton and of their other five children Thomas married Christian (unknown) and their single surviving child John Pincombe married Catharine Bryer at Bishops Nympton 3 Nov 1732 and their five children are the other Pincombe grouping in the Bishops Nympton area and are the progenitors of many of the Pincombe families also in the Bishops Nympton area. Another son of John Pincombe and Johane Blackmoore, Hugh married Sarah (unknown) likely at Swimbridge, Devon and the Pincombe families found in the Landkey, Devon area are their descendants. Working through this Chromosome 7 I may spot some of the descendants of these lines in the Living DNA matches or others that I have not noted before. 

There does look to be a potential for a lot of snow if it keeps up at the present rate. Although I have had fun skiing I am pretty tired from all that fun and will be putting the skis away for the rest of the month or two. It is not something that I generally would go out on my own and do at 80 years of age. Although I could go around the backyard but I have not done a lot of research these past couple of weeks and need to get back to that. Plus I really do enjoy my research just as I enjoy skiing and there is a time and place for everything especially at this age for sure.  

Continuing with Chromosome 7 today and I am about one quarter of the way through the matches. Thus far I have separated out Rawlings, Blake, Knight, Cotterill (coming down from my 4x great grandparents), and Pincombe. Half of my great grandparents in the first quarter of matches is  not too bad. I am not likely to locate Taylor from the Buller/Taylor grandparents and perhaps not Cotterill from the possible father of my paternal grandmother but likely Gray is a possibility. 

Drinking tea and must move to the solitaire puzzles and then begin my extractions of data.  

The third cleaning day

 Yesterday some accomplishment on Chromosome 7 but a surprise well perhaps not really as I had anticipated that I would see Cotterill matches back to my 5x great grandparents William Rawlins and Mary Ford who married 30 Sep 1741 at Wylye, Wiltshire and their daughter Mary Rawlins married to Stephen Cotterel 28 Jan 1764 at Enford, Wiltshire. The size of the match is surprising but the grand daughter of Mary Rawlins and Stephen Cotterel namely Mary Cottrell married William Rawlins her second cousin and this was a marriage in Australia possibly as both of their families had emigrated to Australia by 1842 when their first child was born 22 Jun 1842 at Welling near The Reed Beds, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. That does help me as I work to prove or disprove the suggestion by testing companies that George Cotterill was the father of my paternal grandmother although the priest, on her baptismal registration has entered the name Cotteril as one of her middle names (Ada Bessie Cotteril Rawlings) and her birth registration carries the same name. So very interesting and the match is surprisingly large considering the path back (in total one sibling matches at 31.1 cM in one length, a second sibling (myself) matching on three chromosomes with 7.8, 31.1 and 10.8 cM being the lengths, a third sibling matches at 36.5 cM). Since this is a large match on Chromosome 7 it does rather give me an ability to separate out the results of the known relationship with the Cotterell/Cotterill family with the unknown. Although I did note the match on the other two chromosomes where I match I did not comment at that time because I couldn't really be confident with such small matches. I will make note of the matches in common at this time as that will also be helpful in my quest. 

 We may get some rain today it appears and it looks icy out there so lucky we bought more anti-slip stuff to fix the laneway, porch and patio. Must get out there and do that a little later. I have my cleats on my boots all ready for that endeavour. 

Other than that carrying on with my research and the cleaning on the three days as I enjoy the quiet winter as I hibernate away from all the world in my little house although I do need to look into moving closer to family and I rather think I will start to work on that very soon actually. 

Tea drank and must do my solitaire puzzles and move on to the cleaning.  

  

Moving on to the second cleaning day

 A bit late today and I am into the second cleaning day - the main floor. With all the snow and the slush there will be a little more cleanup around the front door for sure. But we have a good setup with book trays and a tree for coats which keeps it all there pretty much. 

Worked on Chromosome 8 and completed it yesterday with a little finishing up today. The section that I think is early American colonial in the Blake family continues that way in my calculations. Mixed in with that are some good matches in England and Canada in the present time. The only Blake in the Andover family that I know for sure was in colonial America was Joanne Blake married to Roberte Sedgewicke 6 Jan 1634 at St Marys Andover, Hampshire, England and none of these trees go back to this couple thus far plus I believe this is a Knight match on the great grandparent side.  There are many matches in common where I find the matches in Ancestry so this does appear to be a pile-up area exclusively for me in the Knight-Butt-Arnold-Ellis families from the Winterbourne, Dorset, England area. In the 1500s/1600s they were in Newfoundland area but one can see in the trees of some that they moved from there to the American colonies in the early 1700s. One strong match in the group goes back to John Butt and Jean O'Ford who married 14 Oct 1800 at Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England. In general their descendants are well known to me and it does make me think that this particular pile-up area may be regionally common as all of these families (Arnold, Butt, Ellis, Knight) that come from that general area in Dorset that I am able to locate on trees back that far namely in the Winterborne area, west, south and east of these many small villages. 

I will move on to Chromosome 7  and this one has lots of Pincombe matches, Blake and Rawlings somewhat fewer and no Buller matches where the individuals matching are known to me. But there are some good lengths of the ones known to me (eleven cousins in total). There are 77 matches in total and quite a few are from Ancestry as well as My Heritage, 23 and Me, FT DNA and Living DNA. 

Cloudy out today and apparently rain is possible. There is good snow cover and the temperature is 1 degree celsius. Perhaps no skiing for me again today we will see.

Must get some work done. Solitaire puzzles not yet done. The morning is passing quickly.