Another busy cleaning day

 The second day of cleaning completely accomplished and just the basement remains and will soon start the Robot vacuuming the rug. It is a nice way to finish the three day cleaning spree! The time commitment is just two hours at the most - one hour is done by the Robot although I have to prepare the area for the Robot to run effectively which takes maybe ten minutes. 

I finished looking at the four files created by Copilot and they are in good shape. The next step I will probably take on Thursday - my first working day of the week. Copilot will look at each of the files that are referred to by the Blake file it created just by matching the name on the file and the name in the file that it created. Within those files are lists of relatives in common/Matches and I will make a list of what to look for and then Copilot will make a complete list of those names along with a list of the matches that have those names in common. I should get a list of people who match within Blake and a list of people who match within Knight as well as a list of people who are matching Blake/Knight because I did not separate them. I will not have any decision made by the Copilot on this last group because it will be confusing and hence I will do that split although I could supply enough information for Copilot to do it there is a possibility of junk emerging so will avoid that. The human input is still more valuable in this case that the input from Copilot. 

The comparisons between "common areas" will also be made by me because that is indirectly what I am looking for in these sorts - matches deep into the past that take me back to Blake lines in Andover although few people do have that in their tree but some do. The 1700s was particularly small in my Blake line with Thomas Blake (born in the 1680s marrying in the early 1700s and having just one son Thomas and this son Thomas marrying in the late 1720s and having two sons but only one survived infancy and that was Joseph baptized in Andover in 1730 and marrying in Upper Clatford in the late 1750s. He married Joanna King of Upper Clatford and they had three sons. The second eldest died as a child (around the same time as Joseph) leaving the eldest son William who lived in Andover in the latter part of the 1700s and does not appear to have any children and the youngest son Thomas (born posthumously about five months after his father died) who married Sarah Coleman in the early 1790s in Upper Clatford. This very weak line in the 1700s is replaced by a very large line in the 1800s and up to the present. This Blake family of Andover/Upper Clatford is related to the Blake family at Abbotts Ann and I would like to determine the cousinship. I do know they are related through the King family because Joanna King's sister Mary King was married to John Blake, malster, Abbots Ann and all of this is mentioned in John's will in 1796. My thought is that John Blake of Abbotts Ann is descendant of John Blake of Andover who married Elizabeth (unknown) in the late 1670s and was the father of the ancestor of John Blake of Abbotts Ann and Thomas Blake mentioned above (born in the 1680s at Andover). This would make Thomas Blake who is mentioned in John Blake's will of 1796 likely 1st cousins ?x removed. I have yet to find anyone who descends from John Blake and Elizabeth (unknown) with a reliable tree other than my own line. A lot of people have these individuals in their trees but the link is questionable that they are using although by atDNA they are matching me (generally at least three of four siblings or more)! The fun is in the chase as always and as it turns out I do not have a lot of investment in the result other than curiosity. 

It is perhaps being Canadian that I do not particularly get excited about any of my ancestral lines. They are interesting even fascinating given my small footprint on this continent with my father born in England and coming to Canada with his parents as a child in 1913. Then my mother's father's mother was my first Canadian born in Upper Canada in 1839. Grace Gray (my great grandmother) was a first cousin to Sir John Carling heavily involved in politics in Ontario (was Upper Canada) initially and then into federal politics and was Minister of Agriculture hence the naming of the now torn down Agricultural Building and Carling Avenue. This area will now be part of the new Ottawa Hospital - Civic Campus (where I actually worked at the existing campus for six years). So first generation Canadian on my father's side and fourth generation Canadian on my mother's side and I was born before "Canadian citizenship" was created on the 1st of January 1947 so grandfathered to Canadian Citizen all on my own which I always found quite exciting actually. 

Why ever do I spend so much time on this? George DeKay is mostly responsible but there was a tug on my senses after my mother passed away which was a year earlier than George asking me to do a Pincombe Profile for the book he was publishing. My mother knew that I was so into DNA as a child in the late 1950s - found it so exciting and studied Chemistry with that on my backplate at all times. She reminded me of that in the late 1990s as she was going to the Family History Library and looking up items and wanted me to use this new thought that was breaking into genealogy with yDNA studies. I explained that we would need to test my uncle for that and that thinking was in the works but he passed away in 2003 (however a cousin of his did test for me) but I digress. 

The two elements came together with George DeKay asking for the Pincombe Profile and my mother's letters and discussions with me in that regard pushed me into doing the Pincombe Profile, joining the Guild of one-name Studies and reviewing what had been done with yDNA by Sorenson in the 1990s and early 2000s. As it turned out a known Pincombe cousin in Australia had tested his yDNA and I contacted him and an in-between person wrote back (perhaps that cousin had passed away no ideas on that as the writer didn't say that).  It was sort of weird so I just used his results comparing them to my uncle's cousin and they were a match and I just moved forward with the Guild study of Pincombe and Siderfin at that time. 

Who would of ever guessed that I would be so deeply into genetic genealogy at this time in my life! I had always said that when I retired I was going to knit baby outfits and sew clothes for packages going to the First Nations Reserves in my old age as my grandmother had done in her old age. I haven't sewed or knitted very much since I got into my course work at the National Institute for Genealogical Studies and graduated with my PLCGS in 2007 in English and Canadian studies. Funny in retrospect as I continue down this path really with my mother at my side leading me onward. Then my grandfather's memories came into play as I took on the Blake study in 2011 after giving the Siderfin study to a cousin in England as he wanted to pursue it and he was much closer to the repositories than I was in 2010! So Grandpa's stories of his Blake line tumbled out of my brain and I was into Blake and Pincombe pretty much 100% from 2011 on. I continue there actually. 

At 81 nearly I had thought myself to be winding down and I have quite a bit done with that but the intent is to publish all of this on Pincombe and Blake in the next two years and then move forward into Buller and Rawlings my other grandparents to publish their information - the Rawlings because my cousin John Rawlins sent me all his research perhaps thinking I have come to the thought in retrospect that he thought I would write a book. Amazing really as I go down memory lane  - I am beginning to think that is a habit of over 80 year olds.

Must do the solitaire puzzles, tea all drank.  

 

 

The Budget Bill passed

 It should have  happened in December before Christmas break and I begrudge the time wasted about 2 and a half months that things could  have been happening. We need to move along and be quicker doing things. There are people unemployed and we need to get these ideas going so that they are employed. So that we are looking for workers and not having people without jobs. I have little patience for criticism at the moment. 

I did listen to the talk given by the Conservative Party Leader and there were some really good points there like working with the current government and getting it all done. I think of this as a Unity government at the moment and anyone who upsets the apple cart will find at the polls that most Canadians want these things to happen and as quickly and carefully as possible to give the greatest benefit to the Canadian people. That is what Confederation was all about; benefit to everyone in Canada. The provinces are simply a tool to make it easier to handle local issues; they are not autonomous and if you do not have enough money for health care then bring in a health tax and stiffle the complaints. 

I go to a doctor maybe once a year and the $750 health tax I pay is barely scratched by that visit although overhead affects this for sure as rent/equipment costs money and doctors pay for their own clinics (plus I pay more than that monthly in Income Tax which also goes partly to health care). I am actually part of the Ontario long term medical study and have to get my blood work for that and will very shortly when one of my daughters has time to take me. It is not that far away to drive but I have never given six tubes of blood and then driven and this is not going to be the first time when I am 80. Looking forward to the results of that test actually. I sort of think these days that people should know how much a doctor's visit costs even if the system is universal. Generally I think doctors are underpaid often enough for the work that they do. I like and dislike universal health care - it becomes too soft a cushion and one doesn't regard the actual cost of their medical care. Yet I do not want to see children without health care wandering about and it is a measure of a community that the people who live in it care for the people that live there. 

We have to be careful when we are over 75 and driving I think. Extremely careful with our mind totally on the road at all times and not to drive if we are tired. It is a must and if you fail to follow that you should not be driving. The world depends on that driver behind the wheel being aware at all times; no drugs and no drinking of alcohol.

Yesterday I worked away on Ancestry with some work on Gedmatch. A few more very interesting matches on Ancestry with Cotterell cousins and given the frequency of Cotterell on their side the matches were quite good for sixth cousins as they traced back to William Rawlins and Mary Ford (my five x great grandparents) through their daughter Mary who married Stephen Cotterell. They have a good tree and now I have all the children of Stephen and Mary which is so very helpful. There was also a long length of shared matches in Ancestry also very handy. Is the Cottrell family at Upper Chute/South Tedworth related to this Cotterell family? Are they both related to the Cotterill family at Kimpton (and I think Stephen is by the records I extracted but I am always looking for anything that contradicts any of this research). I do like it to be correct. So that made the day very interesting and obviously I do have Cotterell DNA (unless they are in a common area but that is the treat of Ancestry as they remove common lengths with TIMBER so generally your match is a true match with a similar family line). Since my only connection would appear to be through my paternal grandmother the priest recording her name as Ada Bessie Cotteril Rawlings was capturing what he believed to be true plus she was registered with that name and I must check the dates on those two items. I think the baptism was before the registration actually. In both cases Rawlings should have been Rawlins as her mother was baptized as Rawlins and Cotteril should have been Cotterill if the father was from the village of Kimpton. So very interesting and I am avoiding it looking like a soap box opera as far as I am able and sticking to facts. 

My mother used to watch all these soap box operas on the television and when I used to get home from university she would say come and watch and so I did a few times just to give her company but it gave me a dislike for soap box opera and whenever politics or anything begins to look like a soap box I avoid it if at all possible. 

Collection Day and I have already been outside to put the collected items out to the curb. This is the first time I have put out a garbage bag (I didn't even bother with the container which generally sits way at the back of the garage) which has basically one white garbage bag in it which has dental floss for six weeks, a few bandaids and the furnace filter which I checked and it is garbage not recyclable. Amazing really how much is being recycled. I am busy using the bread bags to collect up the smaller plastic bags from freezer goods and others, I use one of the yoghurt containers to collect up the small tinfoil, flexible plastic lids and the like, items that look like paper but do not tear so have plastic in them and then I put that filled container into the waste container and start a new one. It is starting to look neater when I put it out to the street but it all recycles. How wonderful that is. I do want to start buying my meat in butcher paper though although having these sealed plastic containers gives it a longer shelf life so it becomes problematic and I understand that. So I use that method when I want a little more time and the butcher paper from another store which generally has that for immediate usage. A new company has been formed to take care of all that addition to recycling; great for business. 

We are a country that produces boxes and other paper containers and we need to move to that where it is possible. It is easy to recycle paper. I can remember life without plastic bags so it can be done but it is more difficult to keep items fresh, to keep brown sugar from caking and there are other examples. One step I have taken is to use a freezer bag for storing brown sugar and wonder if a movement towards brown sugar in paper bags would work and just store it in the freezer bag. It can still clump in the lighter plastic but the freezer bag does a really good job and you just wash it and I have been using the same one for a couple of years now. 

Today I continue working on Gedmatch as Ancestry is mostly complete although will check for new matches and I am going through the four accounts that I have for siblings and looking at all the Common Ancestors and placing them into their coloured groups for ready recall in the future. That was how I located one set of Cotterell (sixth cousins) sharing 20 cM as my cutoff is 23 cM in Ancestry which can be quite a large number and likely I am missing items between 18 and 22 cM and in particular this one but I can only do so much of this and I have a lot more to do. 

Drinking my tea and time to do the solitaire puzzles.  

 

Cleaning Day two

 Today it is the main floor and I will begin in an hour or so. It is minus 17 degrees celsius and the ice is building up here and there. Yesterday was busy although I did not accomplish a lot with the ancestry matches. I continued to check out the match with a South Newton Blake family. I will do a bit of searching on that as I have collected quite a bit of material on the South Newton Blake family including all the wills. They just always struck me as likely being descendant of the Calne Blake family. Some of the family sizes were large and certainly land was passed to the eldest and any monied items in order to keep it intact. I can understand the principle and it worked well for the times. Generally the other sons went into the military, the church or business as that grew to be a suitable occupation. Other sons stayed and worked for the eldest. That was just the way of life. 

One other item caught my eye and it was in the Cottrell line. A large match with a Cottrell family at  Upper Chute, Wiltshire and is located 3 miles NE of Ludgershall and 7 miles NW of Andover and interestingly 7 miles north of Kimpton. I am, as I said, ambivalent about the father of my paternal grandmother. Interesting that the young man similar in age to her in this family is also named George. But why did the priest use the spelling Cotterill on her baptismal record - strange really. I will have a look at the records on Find My Past and investigate. This is sizeable at 54 cM on ancestry considering the use of TIMBER. This is primarily though a Northhamptonshire family so was surprised. The furtherest back is a John Cottrell born 1804 at South Tedworth, Wiltshire. The shared matches are certainly interesting and include my two brothers tested at Ancestry. The other question of course is this a descendant of Stephen Cotterell and Mary (Rawlins) Cotterell where Mary is one of the children of my 4x great grandparents William Rawlins and Mary (Foord) Rawlins. Knowing that their daughter married her second cousin a William Rawlins leading to a possibility of large matches if I happen to actually have Cotterell/Cotterill/Cottrel DNA inherited from my grandmother. But this is the largest match that I have had thus far. This George Cottrell married in 1879 in London but in 1875 he is named as the father of a daughter in London (my grandmother was born in 1876).  Very very interesting that the name is George perhaps and close enough at just seven miles away. His marriage appears to be to the mother of the child born in 1875. Wouldn't that be amazing to find a solution. The only way that I am going to match a Cotterill/Cotterell/Cottrell is through my grandmother as my tree shows thus far. None of her direct line ancestors though are Cotterill/Cotterell/Cottrell that would have passed DNA to her. 

So Ancestry, as always, proved to be most interesting and I always check my matches there simply because of the vast amount of information that comes with the match even though it lacks the actual area where I am matching on an individual chromosome. 

Charging up my FitBit as it was down to 30% and I generally charge it as soon as I notice that it is 30% or lower. Sometimes I do not notice until it starts to send me messages but generally I notice before 20%. It is now up to 92% and does charge quickly this new one. The older one was taking somewhat longer to charge so another bonus in having a new one. This is a Charge 6 and the last one was a Charge 5. I have been a FitBit user for a lot of years now but about seven years ago I stopped using it for almost an entire year because I felt like it was driving my life. Now I have a different attitude to the FitBit and how I use it and perhaps one has to progress to that. 

So this looking at matches I have missed over the last year as I work away is proving to be most interesting. I have my lists for the others but I do like to go into Ancestry first and then have a look at GedMatch and then start pulling the matches that I found in the other databases. I am looking for anything that would upset the applecart so to speak. But also for anything that is new and adds information that I have been thinking about and Ancestry has certainly filled the bill on that one the last couple of days. Just a few matches to go there and I will be into even more indepth looking as my excel file will be built completely with all of the sibling's results filled in and any MRCAs noted on the Ancestry matches file. 

Tea all drank and must do solitaire puzzles, then breakfast and cleaning.     

 

The value in working on the great grandparents.

 Really all that I will be doing is taking the set of phased grandparent chromosomes and labeling say the Blake portion subdividing it so to speak and showing where the Knight area is and where the Blake area is  - it will not really resemble the chromosome that a great grandparent  actually has. That would require my knowing a lot more about the matches of my cousins than how they match me. But it is interesting to see the area broken down into eight great grandparents. Worked on the 2nd chromosome yesterday and it did go fairly quickly through about the first 1/5th of the matches thus far simply because I have so many known cousin matches. 

The Sermon at Church was very interesting actually. He is a very knowledgeable speaker and quickly comes up with lots of linking comments on the early Christian Church since that is his specialty. I quite enjoyed the United Church Minister's sermons at Dominion Chalmers years ago and in the mid to late 90s until he retired. Edward spotted it in our bulletin at Orleans and we went to Dominion Chalmers just for the series but ended up staying there until that minister retired. He used to talk to Edward just for a few minutes after every service and following the death of his brother and then mother he really wanted that little chat each week.  The new minister was young and into a more folksy less old music service and /Edward asked if I wanted to go regularly to my own Church so we picked the Cathedral with its beautiful organ and wonderful choirs and went there and I still do except online. I do like to give God my 10% as He instructed and so the Sunday was a lovely day as always. God gave it to us as a day of rest and worship. 

Cleaning day today and it is the basement. I shall soon begin with the robot vacuuming the rug. No rush. My hour of exercise is complete and just breakfast to have whilst the robot cleans. 

There will be time to work on Chromosome 2 and that will fit into the day of cleaning the basement as well. Just having a break and working on the matches and on this chromosome I have a known match with a 5th cousin Rawlins but she descends from one of the older Cotterill lines as well along with some other similar matches. What I can not readily determine is the division here between Rawlins and Cottrell in their lines. I think this is the only chromosome where I have that difficulty although will search it out. I am matching because they are Rawlins or because they are Cotterill/Cottrell? That is the question but it isn't that long a match and they do follow each other sequentially so certainly possible but would I get a good match that is the question because it is a number of generations back. It is a problem that I may not be able to solve! The ancestor of these two lines does appear to be a William Cotterel with two sons Stephen and William with Stephen marrying Mary Rawlins 28 Jan 1764 at Enford, Wiltshire a daughter of my 5x great grandparents William Rawlins and Mary Ford. William Cotterell married Elizabeth Kempton 3 May 1760 at Wilsford nr Pewsey, Wiltshire. An interesting conundrum for sure. It doesn't even help me that there is a good X chromosome match for Rawlins since DNA divides as it divides so some of it will be Rawlins/Rawlings and some of it will be Cotterell/Cotterill depending on your descent. I  mull this around since technically I would not inherit Cotterell from these earlier marriages since they are not in my line coming down from William Rawlins and Mary Ford. So am I seeing actual Cotterill in this match where my newer infusion of Cotterill is matching this older Cotterill/Cotterell  or is it simply Rawlings/Rawlins. I am particularly cognizant of the match with my known 5th cousin who does have Cotterell/Cotterill in her lines going back including both of the marriages Mary Rawlins with Stephen Cotterel and later William Rawlins and Mary Cottrell by 1842 (marriage not yet located by me and it may have been in Australia as all their children were born there commencing 22 Jun 1842 so she is looking at her 3x great grandparents in this case so how large a match would I anticipate - 16 cM does seem reasonable but we will see what I garner. I have a number of known matches in this instance in terms of how they descend from this couple William Rawlins and Mary Cottrell in Australia. 

Drinking tea and time to do the solitaire puzzles and I did accomplish that. Time to get some work done. 

 

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. 

 

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.  

  

Cleaning Day Three and then on to Research Days

 Yesterday Cleaning Day Two accomplished along with completing Chromosome 12. Staying inside means more time for research although it has been lovely skiing this year. Once we get sufficient snow  the skiing will be back. In the meantime the cold weather saps the water out of all of that ice. 

Chromosome 12 with twenty known matches went very smoothly and just some work on the Buller/Taylor and Rawlings/Cotterill matches to be done. I may resolve both of these unknown lines - Ellen (Taylor) Buller my maternal grandmother's mother and unknown Cotterill (although several testing companies have selected an individual) my paternal grandmother's father. It does add a sense of mystery to these two lines for sure. Although I was hesitant to work on my paternal grandmother's father's line that is passing in my mind although I will always remember that she loved her step-father very much. She lived with her maternal grandparents when she was quite young (from birth until five years of age) until her mother married William Taylor 11 Feb 1882 in Ludgershall, Wiltshire (a short distance from Kimpton, Hampshire where she was born and baptized). She is found on the census of 1881 with her grandparents William Rawlins and Elizabeth (Lywood) Rawlins at Collingbourne Dulcis, Wiltshire. 

 I did start Chromosome 11 and there are seventeen known cousins for this chromosome with Blake/Knight and Pincombe being particularly well represented but there are matches for all four of the grandparent lines. Buller has just one and this cousin shares X DNA inherited from Sarah (Cheatle) Welsh's mother (still not entirely sure of her surname but she was married to William Cheatle father of Sarah). This was the first chromosome that I ever phased more than a decade ago now. At the time I was amazed at what one could do with all of those matches acquired at that time. Now with  1500 matches over four grandparents the process is a lot less complicated. The methodology has evolved as well although I tend to use several different sets of data to work on crossover points including the original GedMatch setup that was commonly used back a decade ago. I find that the testing companies using different chips does give a slight variance on these crossover points and one must select the best point bearing in mind that this is not yet the exact science it will be one day. 

Having five sibling results makes a large difference but I am about to begin working on my husband's crossover points using just his results, his daughters results and many many 2nd, 3rd and 4th cousins. I suspect it will be possible but will write it up as I proceed. It will be a slower process as I need to get back to writing the books as well. Once I have completed the great grandparents then a portion of each day will go to writing of either the Blake or the Pincombe books. I have given myself until 2028 to complete these two books and will then move to Buller  and a fourth one not yet selected. 

I will never write up Edward's family as I am not familiar enough with his lines - in terms of DNA lots of familiarity and I will do that but I do not know any family stories so will leave that to whomever one day picks up his work where he left off.  He was happy with his final version of his tree although was sad not to have discovered Isaac Kipp's parents names. There were possibilities but he did not feel there was adequate proof for any of them at this time. That his yDNA leads back to Hendrick Hendricksen Kip was adequate for him as the years passed although he was in touch with several researchers in The Netherlands and a trip was planned but COVID-19 break definitely discontinued that possibility. The work on the autosomal DNA was his although I did collect the data into excel files as I did my own but now I will pick up the traces of that work that he did and move it forward with this attempt to phase his grandparent's DNA and then perhaps take it to great grandparents. He has many many more matches than I do although with Living DNA growing that could change in the future - hard to say. 

Still not much work done on the photo albums; perhaps in the New Year I will try again to work on that.  

Time to get back to my morning exercises. I always do them with a short break. Then tea time and solitaire puzzles.  

 

Sunday in God's World

 What a sad weekend this will be in the history books - murder at Brown's University; murder on a beach in far off Australia and I have probably missed some but these are satanist attacks and one is left to ponder is it always Hamas/Hezbollah/Houthis paid by Iran to do what they do; dragged into an emotional quagmire where they believe they are doing what the Creator demanded but they missed the storyline where God said to "love your neighbour as yourself" and the whole world is in reality your neighbour. We created the United Nations to help us to find peace - that uplifted plain where all can live their life as God wanted. Gaza is a result of the decision of the United Nations but Hamas destroyed that because they were permitted to indoctrinate an entire area of people into dying so that they would live at least the ones who survived would retake land that was never 100% their land ever. Why are people so mislead? this is the age where so many have gone to school for years but yet the word of God does not seem to mean the same to everyone - it was simple "love your neighbour as yourself." When will it start? one wonders all of her life and now she is 80. When does God's world take place where everyone gets to keep their beliefs and yet form a government that helps everyone? Today on Sunday I shall contemplate that as I go to Church on YouTube and that isn't anyone's fault but it is a way that works for me and I do not interfere with anyone else celebrating their way of life. 

The Advent message today was particularly poignant after the Prayer Session with Alongside Hope (PWRDF) on Thursday. Our reflector told us a great deal about her community where she is  suffragan bishop of the South Baffin deanery of the Diocese of the Arctic and I have to admit I find all the history of the First Peoples that I have learned to be absolutely fascinating (not so much the mistakes made by colonials who felt their way was better and I have no idea why they felt that way to be honest; the residential schools were a bad idea although bringing the knowledge we had gained to them was perhaps of value only they could say but the residential schools were a failure (for too many they were criminal and anyone that was part of it should have been punished if they were not)). But it was my grandfather who was descendant (as I now know) of the ancient peoples of the British Isles and he used to talk about the British Isles and listening to the First Nations I am often reminded of his stories of the little people who cleaned your boots at night (actually he did it) and all sorts of such items. But it was his way of talking and it was beautiful and I learned so much and especially it was actually what a lot of people thought like the idea that the early peoples of the British Isles were a lost Tribe of Israel. I feel like we have finally reached the point that we were at so very long ago when Tecumseh and Brock walked together to defend this country of ours and they did it well. Mutual admiration for each other's ability to help defend this country. 

I did complete the Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletter yesterday and sent it in for review. I do like it that they review it in case I have missed something as that can happen. I am now into Volume 11, Issue 1 for this journal. It is amazing. I started all of this publication, initially with the Blake Newsletter back in 2011 I think (would have to check) and then gradually introduced them into the Pincombe/Pinkham and the H11 Haplogroup studies. They helped to keep me ontrack as I moved forward with my research not really having a direction that I was heading in until I decided to review James Sander's book on the Siderfin Family and update it. That seemed to invigorate memories of my grandfather in particular and my mother as to their desires on putting down on paper their families in my grandfather's case that was correcting the mistakes in the Blake Line of Andover and in my mother's case that was simply producing a book on the Pincombe family with what she remembered her father telling her as a child about his family. John Routledge Pincombe (her father) was my second born Canadian ancestor (his mother being first - Grace Gray daughter of immigrants Robert Gray and Mary Elizabeth Ann Routledge)). John Routledge Pincombe was the son of William Robert Pincombe and Grace Gray. Both Mary Routledge and William Robert Pincombe came to Canada as young children in their early teens with their families. This tendency to marry an immigrant from the British Isles persisted even into my mother's generation as my father was born in England. But it was these memories coming to the surface as I slowly took on the new role in life as a widow and I was searching for something meaningful to continue working on since Edward and I had worked together on many many projects through our 54.5 year marriage. That was one of the strengths perhaps of our marriage. We tended to be project people who simply took on items because they interested us and we liked to work on projects together for the most part. Possibly because he knew 100% that I would always have his back and help him. I am like that but now as a widow I have just myself to lead forward in life and carry out these commitments I have made to myself and to my memories of my family.  At 80 the years ahead are short but will be full of my working on my commitments until I cannot. 

We can all live to do the work of the Creator and follow His commands and for me that has always been the best choice and that will continue until the end of my time. I remember standing in the Coliseum in Rome and thinking about all those Christian being sent to die for their faith and it is a constant reminder in my mind that life can be strange sometimes and not predictable. But following the Creator's words we can live our lives in as peaceful a way as possible. We just need to get everyone on board and the United Nations is still the best way. We must talk; we the people of the world have a voice and we must use it to counteract the satanists in our midst. Turkiye has spoken out against the terror to shipping in the Black Sea and I applaud them and we should all be against that and all terror. 

I completed Chromosome 20 (63 cM long) yesterday and was pleased at the result; still a lot to do as not all of the matches lead me to a single great grandparent but I did manage Blake 24-46 cM, Knight 0-8 cM, Rawlings 0-23 cM, 32-36 cM, 46-58 cM, Cotterill 51-63 cM (I always qualify these results in my mind that they could be coming down from marriages between Rawlins and Cotterell earlier in the family history (a couple of generations back)), Pincombe 0-6 cM, 55-58 cM,  Buller 12-45 cM. This is just knowing the cousins whom I match. There are a number that I now have to look at their trees and see what I can learn (six that I have selected that I feel would be helpful). But I can always go back into the matches and see if there is anything that I have missed as they are all coded by grandparent match. The Cotterill are always somewhat difficult because the suggested (by the testing companies) George Cotterill and his two wives had six daughters and two sons so that the daughters inherited their X chromosome from George's mother Jane (Sherwood) Cotterill. It does make it a difficult case for sure but I will keep an eye out to see if I can somewhat solve the mystery. My grandmother was exceedingly happy in her childhood with her mother (natural mother) and her step-father and her half-siblings so the trek back is more one of being scientifically accurate with the recording of the DNA of the family since the world is moving in that direction. The need to workaround any medical tendencies that appear in a family is important - some people should not consume alcohol to any great extent for whatever reason and others should not smoke. But the world is also moving somewhat in that direction of leading healthier life styles - Europe is a very good example. 

Perhaps time to work on Chromosome 19 today and it is  59 cM in length with nine known cousins and just a couple of gaps not covered. Taking it back to the great grandparents though is not a simple jump back unless the cousins are all 3rd cousins or greater. We will see; a number of them are 3rd cousins or greater. 

Nearly time for Church and I have forgotten my tea. It has gone cold but that doesn't bother me I mostly drink it for the caffeine as I have discovered in my old age that I am not quite so much of a "bouncing off the walls person that I was as a child and youth."

Tea drank and solitaire puzzles completed. Time for Church.  

Another beautiful Sunday in the Creator's World

 Looking out on the fresh blanket of snow protecting those tender roots under ground is absolutely marvelous first thing this morning. It is cold out there but the plants are protected this year from the savagery of the Polar vortex. Mother Nature was ahead of the game this year with a thick blanket of snow. Global warming is here but in Canada the polar vortex rules the day and it is very cold here. I love the winter for its isolation and lots of time to work on projects because there simply isn't anything I can do about the outdoors. It just survives through each winter by the Grace of God and Mother Nature to spring up again once the cold winds depart and the summer sun works its way north once again. I am  left to wonder many times is the calming Mother Nature stronger than the Polar Vortex? The strength is in her gentleness as each tiny flower erupts from the ground in the spring. That is so much stronger than the cruel polar wind. It blows and blows but in the long run the protections that Mother Nature creates can outlast any polar wind. But why is that? Because, I think, the Creator determines the eventual outcome in the long run and He has told us how to live - love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and love your neighbour as yourself. When that is happening then the world lives in peace and we want peace. Prime Minister Modi of India wants peace; he was very clear about that with the Russian dictator. Freedom is gone from Russia but it probably still exists in the quiet corners hidden away waiting to break through once again and flower. Then Russia can return once again to that glory they achieved which the world acknowledged at the end of the last vicious World War. So many deaths; so many of our youth buried in the battlefields of France. The heart mourns for them and their aim which was Peace in our time has been trampled on. I was born into that desire for peace in our time; when the United Nations formed and we tried to set it up so that aggression would be punished. But the greed crept in once again and it is greed that will destroy our world if we do not learn to love our neighbour as ourself. 

The rephasing of the Grandparents is complete and thoughts of working on the great grandparents swirl in my brain. I can basically use the same setup and simply choose a bolder or lighter colour for the pair and as that stands I would be looking at dark grey for Blake and a lighter grey for Knight, then dark green for Buller and a lighter green for Taylor, dark orange for Pincombe and a light orange for Gray and finally dark purple for Rawlings and a lighter purple and I will have to decide ultimately if that is Cotterill/Cotterell or unknown. The matches will take me there and at the moment I am still ambivalent; there is so much Cotterell/Cotterill already available in the line as matches from the past that are abnormally large because of two marriages two generations apart and close enough at 4x great aunt marrying a Cotterell and a second cousin 4xr Cotterell marrying a Rawlins and some of us have inherited entire lengths of the Rawlings/unknown chromosome amongst the other three which we also inherited as singletons which is apparently not that unusual. Mother Nature is in charge of how all of that genetic material passes and normally chooses the best matchup. It is in this matching that the less desirable genetic code is eliminated and the better is passed (generations that become stagnant lead to disease and so a constant flow of different DNA works better in the long run in the general case - that isn't to say I do not agree with eliminating genetic disease if one can but the better way is to probably marry someone outside of your close family circle which has always been the verdict of the Christian Church for time immemorial). The creation of children is perhaps the most important thing that we do as Homo sapiens along with the nurturing given to offspring (and children do deserve the best that we can provide them although it doesn't have to be the most expensive toy for sure - whatever works best in a family). It is the love that a family has for each other that is really important to their survival as a lasting entity through time. That does make it more interesting to pursue from a scientific viewpoint. The name shifts occurred through time but my cousin in Australia (John Rawlins, MBE) did an excellent job on the family tree for Rawlings/Rawlins. He had taken it back to William Rawlins and Mary Ford whom I believe married 30 Sep 1741 at Wylye Wiltshire and I took it further back to a William Rawlings baptized in Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire 16 May 1669 and the son of a William Rawlings. He did send me all his research and other Rawlins.Rawlings cousins in Australia have continued the search and so far we appear to all agree on this traceback. I am ready through for new research to come up and the advent of DNA does make for even more interesting possibilities.

The morning is passing and tea is drank; solitaire puzzles complete and Church today online if that is possible or I will read the service on my own (already in my reading list).  

What will I work on today? I will continue contemplating the phasing of the great grandparents but I do believe I have come up with a plan that will work. I need to annotate my charts just a little more before I share them with family. I am going to reread the Blake book today as I have latin items that I am translating and will insert into that book. It is time to get back to writing although the year of wading through the DNA matches has been interesting and will continue as I will regularly check the databases - Ancestry has been checked and a few new matches to examine. Living DNA is next and then FT DNA, My Heritage, Gedmatch and 23 and Me although I am not going to write people so it will simply be a look at the match from the viewpoint of whom do they have in common. Perhaps one day 23 and Me will return to their setup as it was absolutely excellent. 

 

 

Fascinating the little items you pick up at a conference

 I did listen to all the talks at the BIFHSGO Conference Saturday and Sunday and had two questions which I asked at the Breakout Rooms. The first was concerning the imprisonment of women who had illegitimate children; apparently that was not just in general but I did not pick that up at the time of the talk. I always found it fascinating that Elizabeth Rawlins is on the 1881 census far from home whilst her illegitimate child was living with her parents who had moved from Ludgershall to just outside of the village of Collingbourne Dulcis (although I think part of the village). There I had found my paternal grandmother as a five year old on the 1881 census. Finding her was incredibly difficult, a bit expensive although not compared to the work done by the last speaker on Sunday - my 100 pounds seems paltry by comparison. I had family letters to my paternal grandfather and grandmother during and before the war from Rawlins family members. At some point it was spelled Rawlings perhaps the parish priest changed the spelling at some point to Rawlings. I was on one of the Rootsweb groups trying to sort it all out not long after I began my foray into genealogy in 2003 when I got an email from my Rawlins cousin in Australia asking me who Ada Rawlins was on the 1881 census. And I could reply that she was my grandmother, thereupon John Rawlins, MBE, sent me all his research. He had quite a dossier and I have not heard from him for a very long time now. William Rawlings and Elizabeth (Lywood) Rawlings had had a large family and no one had been able to sort out who Ada was as she is listed as a grand daughter on the 1881 census living with them. I thought maybe they were hiding her but I just think they were the perfect parents who took in their daughter's illegitimate child (and their grandchild). Elizabeth (my great grandmother) married William Taylor 11 Feb 1882. He was not the father of my grandmother although on the 1891 census he listed her as Bessie Taylor and she was always known as Bessie Taylor until she married my grandfather Samuel George Blake. So that clarified the point about being arrested because she was not. William and Elizabeth (Rawlings) Taylor would go on to have four children (three survived to adulthood). I had thought they had protected their grandchild by moving to Collingbourne Dulcis after she was born. She was very fond of her father William Taylor my grandfather said (although he neglected to say William Taylor was actually her step-father). A well hidden story for sure. 

Then my second question dealt with Marston Green Cottage Homes as I was left with the feeling from the talk on Workhouses that they were terrible places but indeed what I had heard from my grandmother (which was not very much in actual fact; mostly items sort of slipped out in a conversation) and my great Aunt Sarah was that their life had been good at Marston Green Cottage Homes and that the Birmingham Union had sent them to Canada (five children) over a period from 1904 to 1908 and that they visited them every year until they were adults. Their father had been a medic in the First Boer War; injured and sent home in 1882  (Birmingham was home). His wife passed away in 1897 and he died in 1899 leaving the five children on their own. One of the items my grandmother mentioned was that very quickly they were gathered and taken to a new home. She didn't say it was a Cottage Home probably because I would have no idea what she meant. But she did not talk very much about her family in England. The speaker replied that they were very strict likely at the Cottage Homes (which my grandmother was like anyway - she liked organization) but that they had a good life, an education and the children were safe there. I appreciated knowing that. My grandmother Ellen Rosina (Buller) Pincombe was Head Girl (that was in some of the notes I read on this family that are available at the Archives in Ottawa) and he suggested that that referred to her being a matron's helper with the children (perhaps 20 or so in the house). My grandmother was asked if she would like to live with her father's widowed sisters (they offered to take just her) but they would not take all the children so she declined as she did not want to be away from her siblings especially if they were going to be at a home (she promised her mother she would take care of her siblings when she was just eleven years of age). After she was too old to remain and was working she visited them when ever they permitted that. That much I know. But not a lot about that period of her life. I did not really think I would learn very much but in a way I got to see life in England in a far different way than I ever did before. I listened to all the lectures which were excellent. 

Great Conference and I am glad that I remembered to go. I also worked on Chromosome 12 today and managed to get through perhaps a dozen of the matches. It is time consuming as I am checking Ancestry, My Heritage trees and I could also do Find My Past but will save that for a bit when I do my final run through. Once the cross over points are verified using the Living DNA data then I will re-phase my grandparents' DNA for the five siblings. Since I paint all of these matches in DNA Painter it is easy for me to pull up any of the matches and easily have another look at them as I am re-phasing. I am working towards phasing my great-grandparents and that is the main reason for looking at all the trees since it is possible to separate Pincombe from Gray, Buller from Taylor, Blake from Knight and Rawlings from Cotterill. I am still not committed to the idea that a member of the only Cotterill family in the village is actually the father of my paternal grandmother simply because the ancestor of this Cotterill family descends from a William Cotterel who had at least two sons William and Stephen.  Stephen Cotterel married Mary Rawlins (daughter of my 4x great grandparents William Rawlins and Mary Ford) with their grand daughter May Cotterell marrying her second cousin William Rawlins (son of John Rawlins and Elizabeth Green)  thus intensifying the percentage of Cotterell/Rawlings in descendants of this couple making the cousins look much closer than they are. I can not be sure that the matches I do have with the Cotterill family in the village are not a result of this earlier set of brothers (although these latest results from Living DNA do have Sherwood so will investigate that as I  move along (William Cotterill married Jane Sherwood, the Cotterill family at Kimpton)). So an interesting conundrum; isn't genetic genealogy fun!

Cleaning day today and I want to watch my Church Service which I missed yesterday. I considered running them at the same time but I like to have all my attention at Church when I am there. I suppose I do miss going to Church but at 80 I do not want to inflict myself on the system any more than necessary so going to Church online works very well. 

Time to make my tea and a busy day ahead cleaning. I must get more work done on the Photo Books I do want to get them done by Christmas.  

 

  

Not enough doctors

 While I cleaned yesterday I continued to think about 3 million Ontarians not having a family doctor. When we were young there was a doctor on every corner nearly it seemed in the suburbs. They mostly had their offices in their homes in those days but everything has become so much more advanced toolwise that one needs an office in an area where everything is very accessible and close to hospitals too. Most of the patients were children for sure; the growing up days of the baby boomers. Although I was born just at war's end I went to school with children born during the war because I skipped a year ahead from 3 to 5. But we could see that huge group coming along behind us.  

Life was harder for doctors way back then; my husband's uncle was a family doctor and he died relatively young (in his 60s I think). His hours were very long and his patient load quite heavy as he was outside of the city in a small town (not a huge change for physicians in rural areas except the hospitals are better equipped than in the 50s for sure). But now the family physicians in the city are experiencing these enormous case loads and long hours plus the cost of maintaining an office is very large. So Edward did make an effort when Gordon asked him to go to the Ottawa Branch Meeting of the OGS way back in the early 80s with him. It wasn't something that we ever did; Edward and I. We liked astronomy and were members of the RASC in London and then again here when we first arrived along with the Ottawa Field Naturalists Society. My parents visited right away and took us off to the local Anglican Church (not surprising!) although I had already found it but I knew Edward wanted a United Church. Gordon and Edward did seem to enjoy the meetings of the Ottawa Branch and for the next fourty years that pretty much occupied Edward's spare time (although he was pretty involved in his United Church as Treasurer and singing in the Choir as well!). 

Personally I do better in didactic situations not social; I tend to find social situations to be a nightmare to be honest. I was volunteer secretary at Edward's Church (I didn't actually volunteer). The bonus was I was behind a table and could mostly be away from people and just be helpful if needed. After all religion was part of my very being which I knew very well and I had my own deep seated Anglicanism as my support in time of trial. But I had promised to go to Edward's Church with our daughter. Learning Edward's ancestry of dissenters opened my eyes actually and let me see my Anglican Church through Edward's eyes; not that I agreed with him (my faith is very different from his approach to faith although towards the end of his life he did come to see that my faith was a strength that he could hang on to); I do not think I have a Protestant bone in my body; Catholic through and through. With people like Roger Williams, John Bowne, Hannah Feake, Elizabeth Fones, Anne Winthrop, Rev Obadiah Holmes etc. (the reach back into history in his line was formidable in terms of the talent that was there coming down to him and it expressed itself in him as a scientist although the opportunities (unless one went to the United States) were not overly available at that time. He just really wanted to stay in Canada although as we traveled more and more to the United States one could see that he was rethinking some of that and was very supportive of any such thoughts in our children (although they prefer Canada as well but one has to go where the opportunities are for sure as is the case of my older daughter). One could also see where he got his Protestantism from (I was amazed at all the dissenters in his tree actually as he moved back in time)! But I do believe that families should worship together and whatever works for them is great (I am pretty much a wishy washy person and go with the flow unless I have a strong opinion which does occur but I could be a closet Anglican (still went to early Church at the local Anglican Church for a number of years) and in a way I am back in that closet again except I have You-Tube Services!). For Edward I think he felt the need (plus he did go to the United Church when we first met and I did go to Metropolitan United with him in London when we lived there) as we moved through parenthood and he was following in his father's footsteps (he was only two when he died) and being treasurer and in the choir; it was definitely good for his view of himself to seek that association out I think. Edward was a strong person actually; very capable and really quite brilliant and along with his classmates Canada definitely failed them back in the 70s by not hiring their own students first to academic positions in the universities. Edward's father was also an elder but that is no longer quite the same in the United Church. My maternal uncle was also an elder actually as well as being involved with the Missions and Services in the United Church in both London and Toronto. Plus Edward's father was a farmer and Edward did love his hobby of tilling the soil. I had not thought to do any writing up of Edward's work because he felt he had done all that he wanted to do. But I could go back to reprinting items on his blog I am thinking from his many talks. I was doing that but then got back into my own one name studies. But perhaps that would be a good idea and I would be more relaxed about any missing ideas that he expressed but did not write up on his website. A contemplative day I guess as I move forward in my own research but thinking of ways to keep Edward's research in the present. Most of his American ancestors came to Canada as settlers in 1800 and after. The latest one was in the 1820s - William Rathbun - at the annual reunion of that family he learned that William was said to have "an itchy foot!" which was really something quite stunning to learn from the members of the American family actually. William was remembered and that was 150 years later perhaps.

Although the girls did try hard to be with him for his genealogy endeavours it wasn't easy to be young in so many graveyards but they did their best including writing it all down for him from the stones that he selected. When he received his Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for all of his volunteer work but especially his genealogical work they were pleased to see that all that work that he did was rewarded.  

I am very busy working away on the books for my mother and my grandfather. As a member of the Guild of one-name studies we have a newsgroup that keeps us attached as a group and people often share ideas and thoughts. We were into mediaeval tracing the other day and that is basically where I am at with both of these books at the moment. It is exciting times in England between 1200 and 1500 and then you start to see more wills, the parish registers and land documents but there is still a surprising amount of material to pursue before 1500 although it is in Latin and so I continue learning Latin and it is amazing how much I am able to do with it. Published genealogies and Pedigrees can be somewhat suspicious and we did discuss that. It is hard to undo what has been in print for hundreds of years but correct the errors of Horatio Gates Somerby I will do and a few other items which simply do not make sense. But the Somerby work is the greatest problem because it has been copied so many times especially by Blake descendants in America.

For the next book after these two, I know my grandmother had no interest in writing a book on the Buller family but I may give it a go when Blake and Pencombe/Pincombe are done. She loved her father and mother very much (mother died when she was 11; three years before her father). But his injuries in the First Boer War made life difficult for him although he tried very hard she said. Her mother was just 37 years old and her father was 49 years old. So it would be interesting to put her family into words. They are in fact very interesting. My family would likely enjoy having all of that encapsulated into a book.

What would the second book be? I could consider Rawlings but one of my cousins in Australia has done a lot of work on that as well as our mutual cousin (John Rawlins has his MBE) who wrote me maybe a dozen years ago now and said who is Ada on the 1881 census with William Rawlins and his wife Elizabeth (Lywood) Rawlins (her grandparents actually who apparently didn't mind taking in their illegitimate granddaughter!)?  I had mentioned my grandmother Edith Bessie (Taylor) Blake aka Ada Bessie Cotterill Rawlings in a post that he saw and that began a detailed correspondence over nearly a decade so I think I should leave Rawlins to them. Although I do have a good writeup on my paternal grandmother already (about 120 pages actually). I will have to think of which surname to work on next. I am not that interested in collecting cousins, my sister does an excellent job on that. For me it is the deep ancestry that yDNA and mtDNA leads me to and the surname trail back into the past. Although I never really did any genealogy all those years that Edward did, I appear to be spending my retirement (was going to knit baby clothes for packages to the north; and some sewing as well) doing an entirely different thing than I had intended. 2003 was definitely a watershed year in my life when George DeKay (my cousin) asked me to write the Pincombe Profile. 

I shall have to think about a second book to write at the same time as Buller. - there are some interesting choices like Cheatle which is a Leicestershire name and pretty much only there until the 1800s. A Cheatle married a Welch and produced the wife of Henry Christopher Buller. Lawley in Shropshire is another one still on my grandmother's side (the name appears to have originated in Ireland and I do know there is a percentage of Irish as several of my siblings have between 11 and 18% Irish). Why did they come to Shropshire in the mid 1700s? One wonders that. But with my searching over the past twenty years I have encountered a number of these families written up and because we corresponded our line is included. Interesting to contemplate.

The cleaning all accomplished yesterday and on to Pencombe today. Exercise (I do think I am an addict) but then one of the first things that I did when we were in the process of moving here was to take a break from moving in and walk around the large block  (no sidewalks then and the road was incomplete) with my three year old. I decided that was going to be the greatest thing having that 2 km trek to do every day until my little one was off to school (and me to work or school to do my masters!). What a treat I thought. That was April of 1978; we moved here on the 26th of April. Some friends from London lived closeby (yes we did have friends when we moved here) and that was when we noticed these carriage houses (they also had one). I fell in love with it immediately and we have been here ever since (not  much ambition where houses are concerned; Edward traveled a lot then and it was just a comfortable size for me to look after when he wasn't there). I no longer do the walk around as my daughters do not think it is good for me to go alone and to be honest I agree (older people should not wander around alone but COVID did show us how much exercise we could create in our own homes and yards). I have my treadmill, my stationery bicycle, weights, yoga mat and runners so I can do it all inside or in the backyard and can walk/ski around outside when they are here. Teatime and Latin next. Then on to breakfast. 

My own English ancestry (grandchildren can inherit between 0 and 25%; and I am not sure that my grandchildren inherited very much of my English ancestry; the youngest perhaps as he has autism but mostly he reminds me of his mother (he has an enormous resemblance to her) but occasionally I get a glimpse of my brothers there; just rarely)). My English ancestry sinks rapidly into the past having merged with Edward's 9th and 10th generation mostly European and maybe 5 to 10% British Isles ancestry; then Edward's 8th and 9th early American colonial ancestry in our children and now with our grandchildren French Canadian ancestry merges in back into the early days of Quebec and our son in law's family has found First Nations ancestry in their lines (I do want to get back into that research as well! never enough time) so way back into thousands of years ago on this continent for at least one line. Amazing really when you think about it. Which reminds me that is exciting naming Louis Riel as the first Premier of Manitoba. We are, in my lifetime, seeing The First Nations and the settlers walking together just as Tecumseh and Brock walked together. Our Governor General Mary Simon brings the long history of her Inuit peoples to her capacity as the King's representative in Canada and she does it so very well. With three grandparents born and raised in England and a father born there I am likely going to be a royalist supporter for sure! Will we always have a King? I think having a Head of State that isn't political is better myself. Politics can be such a downer sometimes. Although Conservative most of my life; I have voted Liberal the last ten years. But frugality in government is needed; better management of money but that is also on the companies that do work for the government. Do not cheat; do the job or resign from it if you cannot do it - let someone else do it. COVID was a difficult time; decisions had to be made quickly. Things had to be cobbled together to get efficiency but cleaning it up should be a process begun in the past. Part of the problem is the negativity in Parliament. Get the job done; work together instead of trying to score points. I am not impressed by point scoring. I am impressed by good government; good management of money. And I continue to blame all of the parties for celebrating a Nazi  in Parliament. You do so much mud slinging surely you could have caught that before it happened. Stop concentrating on belittling Justin Trudeau; he has done the job for ten years and quite well actually. He was absolutely perfect during COVID. He brought his citizens home from around the world without really any problems. He organized that very well in terms of filing income tax for instance. I have to be honest it surprised me; Liberals can not generally be counted on to be efficient. That is the Conservative strength generally but Social Conservatism is dead in the water for me. I will not support it. Jesus said to love your neighbour as yourself and those words come from God. The prefatory of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms begins with "We believe in the supremacy of God and the rule of law." God has many terms including The Great Spirit, Creator. Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms represents the best wishes of a people for a government that supports all the people. 

Must get to work; the day moves onwards.

 

 

Good news - Inquisition Postmortem is available for John de Pencombe

Today in my inbox a note to say that I can order the Inquisition Postmortem for John de Pencombe from the 1300s as a scan; the record attached to the code is the correct one (nice that they do that record check actually). It will be in Latin and I have started once again to work on my Latin skills. I am using duolingo this time and I am on the third lesson now. I do have some background work in Latin from before COVID - everything is either before or after COVID it would appear - and I am progressing along. What I am looking forward to is something about family and perhaps the reason for the loss in circumstances for the Pencombe family of Herefordshire. I suspect it is the War of the Roses now but it is amazing really to learn so much about one's ancestry. My Blake and Pincombe one-name studies have been quite fascinating. My parents would both be pleased to see the work done as both were curious about their ancestry from an interest point of view - who am I type of thing. They both had quite a bit of knowledge of their lines back several generations which was handy since it was repeated enough times when I was a child that I do remember all of that. Actually I thought I knew all of my ancestry in my younger days and when Edward prepared the 50th Wedding Anniversary book for my parents (I did help find baptisms and things at the Family Research Library) it looked quite nice although researching Taylor was difficult but then I did not know that her father was not William Taylor - that knowledge would come when I did my coursework and discovered that she was only a half-sibling to her siblings and that does show in the DNA matches with her half-siblings descendants. Since they should be my second cousins and a few of them are a nice size but definitely given how much Rawlings we share and nothing else a sure sign that her father was not William Taylor.

Yesterday was a cleaning day and the two floors accomplished in good time. I did not actually do any work other than a bit of researching here and there - nothing particularly meaningful. Mostly I thought about what would be in the next Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletter. Today will be the basement and working outside. Whilst the robot cleans the downstairs rug I will pull any leftover weeds behind the raspberry canes and prepare the land for a topping of garden soil and then the carrots will be planted. We will also plant the sunflower seeds behind the house. The two bleeding hearts have transplanted and will flower nicely next year in the spring. It is a good spot for them. The last hosta is coming up nicely now and I can do a little more clearing of weeds there if time presents itself. There is so much work to gardening - I do not mind work but gardening isn't high on my agenda for sure. But my daughter likes to garden (certainly got that from her father) and will do the heavy work in that regard. I will help plant and weed. The next thing is to prepare the ground for the tomato and pepper plants and the upper part of the garden in front of the raspberry canes for lettuces, green onions, spinach and herbs. The lawn gets cut today as the bees have certainly had their fill of dandelions and other spring flowers and it is time now to enjoy the mowed lawns. Gradually I will get the flower beds weeded and we will add fresh garden soil to most of them but they have shrunk somewhat and will continue to shrink. The fruit bushes are coming along nicely as I trimmed them back quite well in the early spring. We have saved the Loyalist rose which was being strangled by the bleeding hearts and they are also coming along. I didn't really notice until my daughter came home. She quickly moved the bleeding hearts. Some work on the lawn where it is thin to seed grass seed and some fresh top soil there as well just to help it along. 

My Heritage let me know that I had some new Relativity Theories but I have rejected two and accepted one. My paternal grandmother does bring up most of the rejected ones. The records show a distinct line if I am correct that her father was George Cotterill son of William Cotterill and Jane Sherwood - any strange derivatives of those names are incorrect since they do not live in the area. The ones that do have a clear line I have neither accepted or rejected. I would like a substantial match to really prove that line. It is highly unlikely that Elizabeth Rawlins moved very far from where she worked in Kimpton or lived with her parents in Collingbourne Ducis or her siblings in Ludgershall. My grandmother was baptized in Kimpton and the priest has given her the name of Ada Bessie Cotteril Rawlings which was also the registered name. Although she was always known as Edith Bessie Taylor by her family (her mother married William Taylor when she was six years of age (she lived with her grandparents (and mother except when she was working elsewhere than Collingborne Ducis) William Cotterill and Elizabeth Lywood until then)). Do I need to know? She was very happy with her family and probably had no interest in her actual father (nor did my father, he had two sets of grandparents). But from a viewpoint of family medical history it is good to actually know the four grandparents of my father (three of them are known to me). The Lywood family is interesting and a one name study done by Warwick Lywood is available. Elizabeth Lywood definitely ran away to marry William Rawlins and they had baptized their first child a month before that. Definitely I do not think she was coerced particularly and my grandmother was very much loved by her grandparents to have had them raise her for six years before her mother married William Taylor (they still had a couple of children at home at that time as well). Their youngest child Sydney Herbert Rawlins was just six years older than my paternal grandmother. They had seven children and I have a picture of the family on an outing in the early 1900s (a very large group as William and Elizabeth had twenty-seven grandchildren).

On to the day and it is another beautiful sunny day but only 4 degrees celsius - typical May for sure as the frost warnings generally last into early June here.  The predicted high 22 degrees celsius; lovely gardening weather for sure if one must garden! I was a very enthusiastic gardener as Edward loved his garden and when he couldn't do it then I did it but it was long hours in the sun doing all of that work but it looked good. I still think it looks good but I am not bothered by dandelions or wild flowers in the grass and gardens. When they dominate the cultivated plants then I remove them. It is wonderful to wander about the yard and hear the bees humming about here and there. The raspberry canes are looking great so maybe a nice lot of raspberries this year - time will tell but the bees will have lots of little flowers to pollinate there when the time comes. The trees are especially looking good this year with the good load of snow this past winter. Rain tomorrow to keep them growing and filling out with their leaves. 

Breakfast next.

Another beautiful spring day

Golden sunrise and fairly clear skies with a temperature at 7:00 am of minus nine degrees celsius. Not a return to winter even though we did have snow yesterday; just a typical spring day in Canada. Spring is coming it is just a very short season in Canada as we quickly go into summer and heat! The winter does last a long time in Canada with snow coming as early as late October or early November (not a lot just a taste mostly) and then we still have quite a bit of snow on the yards and the piles along the streets edge are melting but they too are still there. This year mid April may see us free of snow or perhaps a little earlier but no promises on that; one never knows if there will be a good snowfall in April. But today it is clear and no snow in the forecast but it may be a cool one since we are only promised zero degrees at the warmest part of the day and a little cloud. Friday mentions snow so March may go out the way it came in - like a lion.  

Yesterday I continued to work on the Ancestry matches and pulled out the Rawlings matches that we (the four of us) share. There are two nice sized ones. One known to me is a half second cousin once removed so I know she is matching me on the maternal side of my paternal grandmother. Since she has tested at several sites I also know where she is matching me. We share 1.1% which isn't bad for a half second cousin once removed. I also have another cousin, not on ancestry, known to me and he too is a half second cousin once removed and I share 1.82% of my DNA with him but significantly different sharing as he descends from one generation earlier so that there is more random selection at play. The two of them do give me a well rounded look at my great grandmother's line (mother to my paternal grandmother). But returning to Ancestry as I would like to learn a little more about this line that does give me quite good-sized matches on occasion. The other match that I have shares 2% of DNA with me and is estimated as a 2nd-3rd cousin by Ancestry. She also matches my known Rawlings cousin at Ancestry so does not give me any information on the father of my paternal grandmother. But the match does let me see that the match is stronger on the Lywood side of the Rawlings family (my paternal grandmother's grandparents were William Rawlins and Elizabeth Lywood). Using these matches I am able to look at the Rawlings matches that do not match these two individuals. That little group is slowly growing but a lot of them are Americans so I can not be sure if they are sharing DNA that is simply hardier coming down from further back - the two strongest share 1% of their DNA with me. I am now up to six individuals that all match each other and share 1% of their DNA (I am looking at half cousin relationships so (half 1C2R, half 2C, half 2C1R, half 3C, half 3C1R and it continues). Going by ages (the children from the three marriages of the possible father were all younger than my grandmother (would be her half siblings)). My father would be a half first cousin to their children and I would be a half second cousin to the children of their children). Some of these people have large trees but spotting the relationship has not yet happened. I shall have a look but probably I will just for the moment continue extracting the information for the two siblings not yet finished to 25cM and then set it aside as I have some work to do on other items. But it is interesting. I do tend to have to set aside projects on occasion but it does give me the opportunity to mull them over a bit before I actually get back to them again. Ancestry, having the largest database, does seem like the right place to look at my paternal grandmother's father. The other side of this, was it correct when both the baptismal record and the civil registration listed Cotteril as the likely surname of the father?

Blake Newsletter all organized and ready to go. I will publish it on Saturday the 1st of April. I have an article that interested me in this one. I was going to continue with James Blake at Knights Enham but I received a submitted article from one of the members of the yDNA Study at FT DNA so gave it the first spot and wrote a shorter article looking at two Latin wills from the 1520s relating to the Andover Blake family. I believe I may have resolved a descendancy issue with these two wills using the Latin Translator and the latin that I have managed to assimilate thus far. Another back-burner project which I hope to work on this summer a little. 

Nice to see King Charles III in Germany (too bad the French side of the trip had to be cancelled). The Royal Family has roots in Germany from the 1700s to the  early 1900s and roots in France from the 1000s to the 1400s. It is good to see that relationship continuing even though Brexit happened. I suspect that it will be the Prince and Princess of Wales who come to Canada one of these days. It is a lot though for them to leave their three children for an extended trip especially now that they are in school all day. I am still very much in favour of having the King as our Head of State (it is neat and tidy and non-political). I tire of the negative attitude of the present Conservative Party - we do need a refresher there and more Progressive Conservatism with an eye on being fiscally sound for all of Canada. The last time the Conservatives were in power they did not properly support Ontario preferring to put all of their support behind the oil industry only. I believe in the oil industry as it is an important commodity for Canada but the other provinces also have important commodities and the support should be equal across the country. 

On to Breakfast and the day. It is a beautiful one thus far - sun is coming up brilliantly in the east. There will be a lot more melting today. The spring flowers are lovely.

 

Chromosome 23

I still do not have that perfect match that will let me formally accept my phasing of my grandparents chromosome 23 that was passed to myself and my siblings. I know the one length of course which was inherited from my father since my sisters and I all receive his X chromosome which was passed to him from his mother. If ever I get matches on the Rawlings line then it is somewhat easy to place them as they match my two sisters and I and not my two brothers. Thus far I do not know if any of these matches are from my grandmother's father's line. Although she received the second middle name of Cotterill/Cotterell I am only penciling in the thought that her father was George Cotterill who was also born at Kimpton. This was the only Cotterill family there. The priest has baptized the baby with that middle name and the baby was registered also with that name. My great grandmother elected to keep her child and on the 1881 census my grandmother was finally discovered after several years and a number of certificates living with her maternal grandparents William Rawlins and Elizabeth (Lywood) Rawlins. Not long after I discovered a cousin in Australia had put together his family tree and he included Elizabeth with husband William Taylor (married in 1882). One of his first questions to me when we met on line was "who is Ada Rawlins on the 1881 Census with William and Elizabeth Rawlins?" By then I could respond that I believed she was my grandmother.

But back to the phasing of my grandparents Chromosome 23. To really perfect this phasing I need a match with one of my second cousins (I do not have any first cousins) where we share the Buller line or the Gray line of my maternal grandfather John Routledge Pincombe's mother Grace Gray. The Buller line looks easier because one of my grandmother's sisters had daughters. But to date none of them have tested. I have tried to find descendants of my mother's first cousin but no luck thus far. On the Gray side, Grace's two older sisters died in childbirth leaving just one daughter who has had children but thus far the DNA shared is too small to definitively declare that one of my two versions is absolutely correct.

Working with the data from the other chromosomes where I have known matches with cousins who also share DNA has helped to create these two scenarios. I await the chance that one of these days one of my second cousins will test.

And it continues to snow. Since it is nearly 2 degrees celsius the snow is fluffy and wet looking not our usual dry stuff that we get at 10 and 20 degrees celsius below zero! There will likely be snowmen if the children can find excitement in yet another snowfall. We are definitely waiting for spring.

One does wonder if 150 years later people can be content with just accepting that children were born out of wedlock. I am most accepting of that. People did not marry for a number of reasons and babies were created in an unplanned way just as they are these days! I am glad that we are more accepting of how life flows.

Genesis versus Gedmatch

Still running comparisons on my Genesis results versus my Gedmatch results. Discovered one interesting item today. A match with a known 5th cousin once removed changed slightly between the two databases. The match still shows up as schematically one match but the values show a break about in the  middle. My match and I are related on my Rawlins line but the match has two Rawlins lines with her ?x great grandparents marrying descendants of two siblings (one of the siblings is my ancestor). Interesting to find the slight difference. It doesn't affect our overall match and I can see that I need to pay attention on Genesis to close together matches of less than 10 cM that I might have ignored in Gedmatch unless there was a reason to look at it.

Is Genesis more accurate than Gedmatch? I am beginning to explore that thought. I thought there wouldn't be much difference between the two but it does appear that slight differences are occurring and I am rerunning my larger matches and making a second record on each datasheet in excel for these matches.

Chromosome 23

Still I am perplexed by Chromosome 23 and how to divide up the maternal portion I inherited from my mother. I have two known matches by 4th cousins but the length is really insufficient to say positively that I have phased this Chromosome 23 correctly between my two maternal grandparents lines - Pincombe and Buller. I have one match on my Routledge line (my great grandmother Grace Gray married William Robert Pincombe and this match descends from a sister of Grace's mother Elizabeth Mary Ann Routledge). I have one match on my Welch line and in this case the descent is from the twin sister of my 2x great grandmother Anne Welch who married Henry Christopher Buller. The amount shared is 10cM for the Routledge match and 8 cM for the Welch match. Fortunately they do not fall in the same area but they confuse a phased X chromosome which I produced prior to knowledge of these two matches. Do I go with the matches or do I go with the carefully thought through phasing that I did before the matches appeared? I am ambivalent. I wish I could find one of my known 2nd cousin Buller as their grandmother was my grandmother's sister. Likely we will share some X chromosome enough to convince me one way or another on how we have inherited our X chromosome from our mother. The paternal X chromosome is, of course, easy as that is inherited entirely from my father who received it unchanged from his mother and it was inherited by her from her parents - William Rawlins and Elizabeth (Lywood) Rawlins.

I have a new match on Ancestry lately which is also descendant of my Buller side likely back to my 2x great grandmother Anne Welch. It would be interesting to see if this individual has an X chromosome match with me. However, I have not yet written but will contemplate doing that to see if it interests him to pursue the match. It is a large match. Another similar match at 23 and Me is likely Welch-Buller with a 1.2% match and in this case the chromosomes have not been shared. I did write to this individual and verified our descent from the Welch family as being our most recent common ancestor. Perhaps over time she may share her chromosome results and again a strong possibility that there would be X chromosome results of a length sufficient to name the phased portions of the X chromosome with more accuracy.

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.

Will of Robert King, Yeoman, Upton Gray, Hampshire - The National Archives PROB 11/223, probated 20 Oct 1652

Another will by a member of the King family at Upton Grey and Robert is the son of Anne King, widow who left her will which was transcribed earlier:

http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2017/02/will-of-anne-king-widow-upton-gray.html

Robert King, testator, names his wife Johane and does not list any children. He mentions a William King and his two children who now live with him but does not state the relationship. He does not leave his property to them. He mentions his first cousin Bernard Hunt (his aunt (sister to his mother)’s son). He has many godchildren; he names a number of them with particular legacies. None appear to be related to him.

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 9 Mar 2017
Source:  The National Archives, PROB 11/223
Name of testator: Robert King, Yeoman
Place: Upton Gray, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 1 May 1652, probated 20 Oct 1652
[In margin] T: Robert King

1    In the Name of God Amen
2    the first day of May in the year of our Lord Christ according
3    to the English Accompte One thousand six hundred fiftie two I Robert
4    King of Upton Gray in the Countie of Southampton Yeoman being in
5    reasonable good health and of perfect and sound minde and memorie
6    thankes be to the Almightie God therefore but calling to minde the
q    uncertaintie and instablenes of this present life and how suddenly we
8    are and may be taken out of this world and the more rather for the
9    Settlement of that Estate which it hath pleased Go to endow me withal
10    Thereby to avoid all Contraversies and suites in Lawe by my freindes
11    and Kindred after my decease doe make and ordaine this my present
12    last will and Testament in manner and forme following First and
13    principally I commend my Soule into the hands of Almightie God
14    my Creatour assurdlie trusting and belevieving that by and
15    Through the only merritts and mediation of Jesus Christ my blessed
16    Saviour and Redeemer I shall be made partaker with him in his
17    kingdome of heaven when this life ended next I commit my bodie
18    to the Earth from whence it came to be buried in Upton Gray church
19    in or neare into the Chancell Item I give unto the Cathedrall Church
20    of Winchester twoe shillings and six pence Item I give unto the poore of the
21    Parish of Upton Grey aforesaid Five pounds of Current English money to be
22    putt into a stock for the use of the same poore Item I give unto the
23    Parish Church of Upton Grey aforesaid Twenty shillings Item I give
24    unto the poore of the Towne of Odiham in the Countie aforesaid
25    five shillings to be distributed amongst them by the Collectors and
26    Overseers for the poore there Item I give and bequeath unto Barnard
27    Hunt my Mother’s Sister’s sonne fortie shillings of Currant English
28    money Item I give unto his fower sonnes Humphry William John
29    and Barnard Twentie shillings a peece All which my will is shall
30    be paid unto them winthin six months next after my decease Item Item
31    I give unto Edward Rosinger of Alton Twentie shillings Item I give
32    And devise unto William Knight sonne of William Knight of
33    _appen in the Countie of Sussex yeoman deceased Tenne pounds
34    of Currant English money and to his Sister Elizabeth Knight both
35    which are now living together with me Tenne pounds or likewise Item
36    I give unto Isabell Wheeler Wife of Nicholas Wheeler of Bensteed in
37    the Countie aforesaid yeoman Tenne shillings Item I give unto
38    Francis King Wife of William King tenne pounds Item I give unto
39    Thomas King of Upton Gray aforesaid yeoman Two shillings and six pence
40    and to his sonne Thomas King my Godsonne five shillings Item I give
41    unto Henery Lee my Godsonne five shillings Item I give unto my Godsonne
42    Robert Wynhall sonne of Walter Wynhall of Odiham abovesaid Tenne
43    poundes of Current English money and to my Godsonne William
44    Missingham sonn of William Missingham of Hillsyde within the Parish of Odiham abovesaid Black
45    smith I give Tenne poundes of like Current English money Item I
46    give unto Henery Grove my Godsonne the sonne of Thomas Grove
47    of Odiham abovesaid Tenne shillings Item I give unto Margarett
48    Couper wife of Nicholas Couper my God daughter five shillings and
49    to theire sonne Robert Couper my Godsonne I give five shillings Item I give
50    unto Johane Scott Wife of William Scott of Alton tenne shillings and to
51    his sonne William Scott my Godsonne I give five shillings Item I likewise
52    give unto all the rest of my Godchildren that are not herein named five
53    shillings a peece Item I give and devise unto Thomas Wilie who
54    hath bin my ____ servant and workeman twentie shillings
55    Item I give unto Margerie Rawlins sometimes my servant tenn
56    shillings Item I give unto Thomas White who is now my Servant
57    Twentie shillings And I give unto Roger Gregoire my servant twenty
58    shillings Item I give to Thomasine Lane my servant Tenne shillings
59    Item I give unto Walter Wynhall above named the write of this my
60    will five poundes of Currant English money who hath manie yeares
61    together been imployed and diligent in my Law business And
62    my Will and meaning is that all the moneys and legacies by me
63    given and bequeathed in manner as aforesaid shall and may be
64    truly and insley paid by my Executrix hereafter named within six
65    moneths next after my decease And as touching the disposeing of all
66    my lands and Tenements I will give devise and bequeath All
67    my farmes Messuages Landes Tenements woods underwoods
68    Rents Reversions and Hereditaments with theire and everie of
69    theire Appurtenances situate lying and being in the Parishes of
70    Upton Grey Up Nately Alton and Odiham in the Countie of South
71    Hampton aforesaid unto Johane my well beloved Wife and to hir
72    heires and Assignes for ever To have and to hould the saide farmes
73    Messuages Lands Tenements woods underwoods rents reversions and
74    Hereditaments with their and everie of theire Appurtenances unto
75    the said Johane my well beloved Wife and to hir heires and Assignes
76    for ever And to hir and to their owne proper use and uses for ever
77    onlie paying out of the farme my debts and a certaine Annual
78    Rent of a eleaven poundes by the yeare payable To Bernard Hunt
79    above named my Mother’s Sister’s sonne during the tearme of
80    his natural life by agreement made betweene us The rest of my
81    goods and Chattells my debts Legacies and funeral Expences paid
82    and discharged I give and devise unto the said Joane my well beloved
83    wife whome I make the full and whole Executrix of this my last Will
84    and Testament And I entreate my loving freindes Nicholas Wheeler
85    of Bensteed in the Countie of Southampton yeoman And John
86    Scott of Upon Grey aforesaid yeoman To be Overseers of the
87    same And I give to each of them for theire care and paines
88    therein to be had five shillings a peece In Witnesse That this is
89    my present last Will and Testament I have hereunto sett my hande
90    and seale The day and yeare first above written Robert King
91    Signed sealed published and declared for the last Will and Testament
92    of the above named Robert King in presence of William Missingham
93    Walter Wynhall Snr
94    This will was probated att London
95    the Twentith day of October in the yeare of our Lord God One
96    Thousand six hundred fiftie and two before William Fourth
97    doctor of Lawes and Surrogate Nathaniel Brent Judge and
98    by the oath of Joane King the Relict and Sole Executrix named
99    in the above written Will To whome Administration of all and
100    singular the goods Chattells and debts of the said deceased was
101    Committed She being first legally sworne truly and faythfullie to
102    administer the same