Living DNA Results

 I have been intent on the matches but today I noticed my map on Living DNA. In the past I have had a bit of colouring outside of the British Isles but the latest result shows 100% Great Britain and Ireland with 

23.3% from South Central England; my father was born at Eastleigh and his father at Upper Clatford and going back in time about four generations this male line was in Andover and back into Knights Enham (part of Andover) and by yDNA thousands of years in the British Isles which bears the comment from my grandfather - we always lived in the Andover area. But there is a 50% other side of every story in his line with my father's mother born at Kimpton and her line going back to her mother born near Enford, Wiltshire where the Rawlings line is found for a number of generations and then Netheravon, Wiltshire back to Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire. The wives of these men were always from local areas to Enford. My father's father's mother Maria Jane Knight was born at Turnworth Dorset and both sides of this family lived in the areas around Winterborne Stickland, Dorset including the Arnold family at Milton Abbas, Dorset the Molton family at Winterborne Whitchurch, Dorset, the Butt family near and at Winterborne Stickland. 

 14.9% from Lincolnshire was a bit of a surprise actually as I do not have anyone actually born in Lincolnshire.

11.9% from Devon and my mother's father's family were from Bishops Nympton, Devon (and area) going back to the late 1500s. 

11.8% Central England and I am thinking of Leicestershire looking at the map which is the area where my Welsh and Cheatle families lived (the parents of my 2x great grandmother Anne (Welch) Buller born at Longdon by Lichfield, Staffordshire and baptized at Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire. My maternal grandmother's grandmother.

 9.7% Southeast England and this includes London and particularly Bermondsey where my Buller and Beard families lived in the 1700s into the early 1800s. My maternal grandmother's father's family. Henry Christopher Buller married Anne Welch at Birmingham in 1838. 

8.1% South England and this area captured above with my Blake family at Andover and my Knight family at Turnworth, Dorset and their areas as mentioned above. 

5.8% East Anglia is a teaser as I do not have anyone from this area.

5.4% Ireland and just family lore about my maternal grandmother's mother being of Irish descent (only  the Republic of Ireland is coloured for this percentage).

4.1% south Yorkshire which is the area of the East Riding of Yorkshire which was home to my Gray family found at Holme in the Wolds and before that Cherry Burton which is close by. 

 3.3% Northumbria which is also a teaser as I do not have anyone from this area but do have my Routledge family from nearby Cumberland.

1.7% Cumbria which does seem very small as my Routledge family were at Oakshaw, Bewcastle  back into the 1500s and likely earlier. This is my maternal grandfather's maternal grandmother's line (Elizabeth Mary Ann Routledge was the daughter of Thomas Routledge and Elizabeth (Routledge) Routledge. 

I must look at my four siblings to compare their map to mine. 

Yesterday I continued drawing out the matches to a third sibling and did get a bit bogged down with one which I shall quickly resolve today having given it some thought. 

It was a busy day though with grocery shopping and then a walk on the beach which was lovely. It was busy enough but soon will be packed with people enjoying the swimming, boating and picnics on the beach. 

Sunday and two Church Services to attend online. Soon I will do that. The Bible Reading today was about Solomon and one would wish that all the leaders of the world would be wise like Solomon and bring us to a peaceful co-existence where hate no longer rules and no one goes hungry.