Time flows so quickly even in retirement and a loss of internet meant I missed out on a webinar I wanted to attend. The phone just didn't seem to want to do it. However I will be receiving the Advent messages anyway as one could sign up for that without attending the webinar. They sound like a treasure to receive this Advent.
The Reign of Christ service yesterday online was lovely; many of my favourite hymns were sung and the sermon was quite interesting. I do like receiving the Church Service every Sunday on my television. At 80 I have less and less desire to be out and about. It takes too much time out of the day. Even yesterday I went and got my COVID shot (I have never missed one actually) and as it was a fairly nice day I put on my snow boots and walked up to get my shot and two litres of milk as I was running out of milk. Grocery shopping one of these days but for the moment I can make do with what is in my refrigerator and cupboards. I am not a big eater but have managed to gain back the four pounds that I lost when I had the flu. So no more doubling up of meals - just three meals a day and that is nice and eating extra meals uses up my work time.
Chromosome 1 was the source of my working yesterday and I got maybe a dozen matches completed. This chromosome does have a number of known matches so that I can pretty much rely on them to place the grandparents but there aren't many Pincombe matches known to me and the Blake matches seem quite ancient as I can only locate a couple of them. My largest match actually is on this chromosome and occupies a good couple of lengths but it is obscured somewhat by endogamy which means it is Blake mostly Knight-Butt-Arnold but nothing in the Blake line itself other than a couple of known cousins but they are not really large lengths. There are smaller known Blake matches with cousins. It is the ancient Blake that catches my eye so will put some concentration into that as earlier matching in Ancestry pulled up some ancient results with the Sedgwick family of Massachusetts. Joanne Blake (daughter of William Blake and Dorothy Madgwick married 6 Feb 1606 at Andover, Hampshire, England) married Roberte Sedgwicke 6 Jan 1634 at Andover, Hampshire, England. He died in Jamaica, she returned to England and died in London but their five children remained in Massachusetts where they lived and their first known son was baptized 31 Mar 1639 at Charlestown. The matches were small and eventually disappeared from Ancestry. But there are a number of American descendants in the area of those matches on Chromosome 1. So I shall pursue this chromosome looking for possibly ancient Blake autosomal DNA. With a couple of Blake-Blake marriages in this line the chances exist but they will be very small and somewhat encumbered with other possibilities for sure; one does realize that. But 281 matches are a lot of matches and it will take me a bit to get through all of them in a meaningful way.
Cleaning day today and it is the basement and the robot will soon do its work with me checking to make sure it is fully charged. The first robot in the house for sure.
Time to make my tea and do my solitaire puzzles. Dawn is just breaking across the eastern sky.
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