Still working on Chromosome 9 but there are 120 matches on this particular chromosomes. There are a couple of long lengths that occur in the Blake, Pincombe Buller and Rawlings families and appear to be passed down in my line with a high frequency amongst 2nd, 3rd and 4th cousins (and even 5th cousins on occasion if Blake/Knight and possibly there is a mashup as I call it when part of the length is say Blake and part is Knight). Proving it though is another question but one of my best matches, totally unknown to me in terms of actual relationship, carries both Knight and Blake. He was adopted and his details on his father are somewhat vague although has a complete tree for his mother. I think there is a remote possibility that I also match him on his mother's side but not a large match but definitely a match is showing up in the Knight family and the Blake family. The Knight family is a bit of a question though as I can not fit him into the descendants of Edward Blake and Marie Jane (Knight) Blake my great grandparents. I know pretty much all of the descendants of this couple down into this time frame. Although they had twelve children only nine lived to adulthood and my father only remembered seven of my grandfather's Blakes siblings. The eldest child (who lived with her grandparents in Turnworth from at least the age of nine years into adulthood) had the largest number of descendants and I can trace them down. The next eldest had three daughters and none of them had children (two survived to marry). The next child was my grandfather and he had just the one son - my father - and seven grandchildren etc etc. The next child only lived a couple of months. Then another son and he was 21 years of age when he was buried at Goodworth Clatford. He had not married. The next child, a daughter, married but died in childbirth as did the child. Then followed another son and he emigrated to Canada in 1911 and married here. They had two children and only the daughter had children. These descendants are somewhat known to me and continue to live in Canada. Another daughter was next and she also died in childbirth, the child did not survive. Another son and he died at the age of two years. The last daughter married and had one son but her husband died in France during the First World War, she remarried but did not have any more children. Her son had one daughter born in the mid 1900s. The next child, a boy, died at four years of age. The last child also a boy married and served in both the first and the second world wars in the navy and he had two children with the eldest having been shot down over France during a reconnaissance mission (he did leave one daughter who came to Canada with her husband and they had three daughters with children (I have not kept in touch although my mother did and told me about them through the years)). The daughter of this youngest son married and remained in England and one of her three children was Ivan Kent with whom I corresponded through the years, he did not have any children. His sisters both had children and grandchildren known to me. So the relationship with Knight is a mystery and could be on his mother's side and I do need to more thoroughly look at his large tree. But definitely he is matching on the Blake side and I can likely pinpoint it (he had told me a few details on his likely father and I did find one individual with the correct forename but we appear to have left it at that). So interesting to have that very large match actually - I have the largest at more than 260 centimorgans and one other sibling equally large, two in the mid 100s range and one around 80 centimorgans.
I will continue on Chromosome 9 today. Yesterday we cleared the snow in the laneway and the fresh air was bracing but nice. It was minus 25 when I got up yesterday but today it was closer to minus 15 but still pretty fresh out there. There is a gradual warming trend up towards zero and more snow promised in this next week. It looks like enough snow to ski on the ice that came our way and we might try that out today. Hard to believe we are at Saturday already and the 3rd of January. The New Year is moving quickly and the world with it. Turmoil here and there and we will see how that all develops.
This is a beautiful winter day in Canada. The snow still clings to the tree branches and it is beautiful looking out the windows. Now I can see the blue sky with some lengths of cloud. The trees are still today. God is watching and waiting and wondering how humankind will deal with these latest events. Our friend and neighbour to the south remains that our friend and neighbour. It is important to us that we are friends with our neighbour and it is as God commanded that we love our neighbour as ourself. It has stood us in good stead through the years but the need to be tariff proof has resulted in a change in how we live in our lives. It will likely take a generation for all of that to take effect but it is happening as we move forward into our proper place in terms of being a producing nation and a strong international economy with other nations around the world. It benefits both of us or all of us however you look at it. We have a lot of products to sell that are needed in other countries and our Prime Minister with his international outlook is making that happen. I see us as being on a sort of emergency setting where we have to work very hard to make all of this new business happen as quickly and as safely as possible. There is a huge need for Parliament to work together; the people spoke in the election and all parties would do well to heed what we said; we want what is happening as the Prime Minister laid out his plans during the election period. It is working; it will be slow and it will be a lot of work but Canada will retake its position as a world leader much as we were during and following the Second World War. We have the stamina for it and we are a country richly endowed with natural resources to help with that.
Tea drank, solitaire puzzles completed. Time to start working.
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