Chromosome 5 completed

 Some difficulties in chromosome 5 as I did not separate out a few matches from the grandparent lines. Sometimes they were probably too small anyway other times just not enough information but I have kept them in the chart as I want to see how they correspond to other known matches. That will be something that AI will do for me once I have this chart ready to go. Could AI have made the chart? Perhaps in the future no idea on that although for privacy concerns in the databases I think that AI can not be just randomly used by people in a database although that is one item that these databases could offer in the future as part of their advanced searches such as Ancestry has now set up. Eventually I will use that because I can see some items that I wouldn't mind having more information as I pursue these early colonial Blake lines and as it turns out in I have also found that their are Buller/Taylor early colonial lines in America. I have the one known Blake line mentioned earlier (Sedgewicke-Blake in the mid 1600s in the Royal Colony of Massachusetts). The Buller/Taylor (and I do suspect Buller because like Blake they were out in the world in those early years) line appears to be a southern one in the Virginia Colony or the Carolina colony. 

I did start Chromosome 4 and there are  82 matches. This chromosome has eight known cousin matches several of them quite good lengths. Blake is heavily represented along with Knight, one singleton Rawlings and Dear back to my 3x great grandparents which was a good find. One match back to my 2x great grandparents Pincombe and Rew. The process through these chromosomes has been quite fascinating and I find myself contemplating doing Edward's grandparents with more confidence considering I do not have many of his closest relatives (sibling, sibling descendants, 1st cousins) but many many second, third and fourth cousins who were very kind to test for him in that decade before he passed away. I actually maintained all of the tests extracting the new matches as they came in since I was doing mine but he did all the work of actually looking at them and preparing charts (by hand) as he worked through them. I think he enjoyed that actually. I said from the beginning my genealogy would all be on the computer and for the most part it is but I still do have a couple of thousand fiche, books (not as many as he did - 2 bookcases (small)), DVDs that I purchased some on our trips to the British Isles and Europe. Records that I have purchased but I did scan all of them but did keep the originals if they were close family data. 

I also want to get back to the fourty binders of pictures and reduce them to just the family moments so that they are not lost over time. They are all scanned so in fact they would not be lost but it is nice to think that Edward's grandchildren will be able to enjoy the binders looking through them and perhaps his great grandchildren. His grandsons still miss him very much; he would have been so perfect with them but they are lucky to have a wonderful father who is also very good with them. As well they have a grandfather and a step grandfather that they both love very much and they were younger than Edward and will be with them for a much longer time which is wonderful. Creating the phasing of Edward's grandparents just seems to make it easier for me to do this downsizing. 

Moving on and must drink my tea and do my solitaire puzzles.  It is minus 26 degrees celsius in the great outdoors. The snow continues to be sucked dry by the cold air so not a good time to be wandering about outside here. The bare road is starting to show a sign that it is very cold out there. Apparently we are to get 10 to 20 centimetres of snow which will be light flaky stuff for sure in this cold if it actually falls.

Sunday today and Church very soon. I guess all the world excitement of the past week has distracted me from the actual day that I was living in.  

 

William Dove and Jane Morgan

William Dove and Jane Morgan were the parents of Mary Dove and online records had given me a marriage for Thomas Rawlence and Mary Dove 9 Dec 1807 at Woodford, Wiltshire, England. I hesitated for ever so long to look seriously at this marriage but decided when I was writing up my 52 ancestor Challenge for my 4x great grandparents to at least write about William Dove and Jane Morgan my possible 4x great grandparents.

Enter electronic availability of Wiltshire records online at Find My Past. I had read the Woodford Parish Records and accepted the spelling of Mary's last name as Dove in the 9 Dec 1807 record of Banns for marriage with Thomas Rawlence. However Find My Past has the surname of Dear - Thomas Rawlins married Mary Dear 9 Dec 1807 at Woodford, Wiltshire, England. There isn't an original copy of the register online at this time.

As it turns out I do have a copy of this record from the Banns book:

The records on Find My Past are from the Wiltshire Parish Records Index which was created locally so I do tend to think that their knowledge of the families is greater. The surname Rawlence does leave one wondering and has left me in that state ever since I found it over ten years ago. Does the surname of Mary spell Dove or Dear - this is a different record from the actual marriage record which was used in the Find My Past Transcription.

Time will tell the correct surname of my 3x great grandmother. A few strong DNA matches with people still living in this area in England may be helpful as I inherited strongly from my Rawlings grandmother.

Brick Wall Number 4 - Wife of Thomas Rawlins

Brick Wall Number 4: Wife of Thomas Rawlins

Almost from the beginning of my research days I have been able to reach back to Thomas Rawlins (and further back but the name of his wife was a riddle. There was a marriage of a Thomas Rawlence
and Mary Dove 9 Dec 1807 at Woodford on the IGI but I see now that it is record by another researcher as Thomas Rawlins and Mary Dear same date. I have an image of the original record from the Woodford Parish Registers. The original record reads Thomas Rawlines and Mary Dove both of the parish, bachelor and spinster, with witnesses John Thornton and Dinah Moore.  There are no Rawlins family in the Woodford registers that I found in this time frame. There are Dove families in the register. Possibly Mary is the daughter of William Dove and Jane Morgan who married 1 Jan 1783 at Saint Thomas Salisbury Wiltshire. I only found one child in the register at Woodford Robert baptized 14 Apr 1793 and buried 6 Aug 1793 all at Woodford (he was baptized the same day as he was born). William is like the son of William and Mary Dove (Mary was buried 4 Jun 1787 at Woodford) and the mother of William also Mary Dove a widow was buried 30 Oct 1733 at Woodford.

The riddle in all of this is that the first child of Thomas and Mary Rawlins isn't born until circa 1813 and she has likely died by 1819 when another child is given the same name Harriet. Family lore in another family line says that Thomas was at the battle of Waterloo (like is later daughter in law's father George Lywood). I have not yet found that reference. The next child after Harriet is Isaac and likely born around 1818 as he died december quarter 1885 at Amesbury (aged 67 years).  The last child of this family born in 1825 is my 2x great grandfather William Rawlings.

I am somewhat on the side of thinking that Mary Dove is the wife of Thomas Rawlins. It would be nice to find a really solid proof. The marriage lines say that he is of the parish of Woodford but I know that he was born and raised at Enford but he could have gone there to work. Certainly his father Jeremiah Rawlings married at Tilshead but the priest identified him as of Enford. Handy information but this doesn't appear on the Woodford Parish Registers. 

The younger children in this family were born at Enford and I do not know yet where the older children were born.