We are back to Sunday once again in God's World. The week passed quickly and was very busy. The weather non-typical for December in many ways but not that unusual to have a spell of rain in the winter. The snow base is still intact and more snow fell yesterday and more this week. Soon back skiing again and enjoying all of that wonderful winter that Canada has. But Sunday is special; Church today on YouTube if that works out. It is the fourth Sunday in Advent and Christmas comes on Thursday. But most especially once again in a tradition that stretches back over two thousand years we will celebrate, those of the Christian faith, the coming of the Christ Child - Jesus Christ - into our world so briefly but his birth was a history changing event that was to change the European/Asian Continent in enormous ways. Those simple words - love they neighbour as thyself - would become the body of a faith that grew out of the Celtic Faith of Europe into the Christian faith which is still with us today. My Anglicanism dates back into that ancient Celtic Faith that flowered in the British Isles and has its roots perhaps in one of the Lost Tribes of Israel. That is unknown and simply a tale handed down generation after generation it would appear since my grandfather passed it to me (as did my father). Now in this quiet time when we are covered by winter snow we await the coming once again of the Christ Child into our lives.
Made large strides with Chromosome 17 but many of the matches are for the very beginning of the chromosome and shared by my elder brother and a younger brother only and date back centuries with many of the matches being from Georgia and Alabama and the Carolinas. I do know that this is Routledge/Rutledge and that any connection with probably 80% of them dates back centuries. My Routledge lines came to Canada in 1818 - Thomas Routledge and his wife Elizabeth (Routledge) Routledge (2nd cousins once removed) came to Canada with their large family from Bewcastle, Cumberland, England and took up land in London Township which was deeded to them by Colonel Thomas Talbot. The eldest daughter Margaret Routledge married Thomas Carling and their son was Sir John Carling. My 2x great grandmother was their youngest daughter Elizabeth Mary Ann (sister to Margaret) who married Robert Gray and their daughter Grace married William Robert Pincombe with their only surviving to adulthood child was John Routledge Pincombe, my maternal grandfather. But already on this continent there was a large group of Routledge/Rutledge living in the southern states and it is descendants of that group who match my two brothers on Chromosome 17 with matches in the 30 centimorgan length and that connection is a long way back. Edward Rutledge (I suspect this is his line) was born 23 Nov 1749 at Charleston, South Carolina and is an American Founding Father who signed the Continental Association and Declaration of Independence. His family had come from Ireland to the American Colonies. They were in Ireland because some of the Rutledge/Routledge families fled there way back in the 1400s and later from the Highlands of Scotland and that is a long story for another time but my lines came to Bewcastle from the Highlands of Scotland which is a story better known to me. My line were known as the Oakshaw/Yakeshaw Routledge Family of Bewcastle with both Thomas and Elizabeth being members of the Oakshaw/Yakeshaw Routledge Family lines. This was the border lands and heavily contested at various times in British History going back into the 1400s. My mother always said that the Routledge family came to Canada because of turmoil in the Border Lands - no ideas on that I suspect that they just wanted a better life for their six sons as the eldest would have inherited the property on which they lived there and the other five would have to make their way in other ways and in Canada they all had land which was an enticement at that time. So they sold their property rights to a cousin Routledge and they came to Canada. My grandfather talked a lot about his mother's first cousin Sir John Carling and indeed learned a great deal about Parliament and debating from him as a child which he passed on to his son my uncle William Edwin Pincombe. I also was able to separate out Buller and Rawlings but this Chromosome is heavily Pincombe/Gray as my two great grandparent lines (it is at the 3x great grandparent line that my Thomas and Elizabeth (Routledge) Routledge appear) and heavily inherited by all of us siblings. The other lengths do not appear to lead back in time to the Rutledge family in the United States in the same way as that first length (56 matches in total have been collected that are shared by these two brothers in this first length and I have not listed all of them in my chart sticking primarily to those between 20 to 30 centimorgans in length). It does not show up as a pile-up or common area so is just simply a common area for this family. I do find it interesting that the Rutledge family of the southern states was so involved in politics as was my great grandmother's first cousin Sir John Carling. These matches went very quickly and I have completed them in the one day surprisingly. Mind you there is still a lot of work to do looking at the trees for the lines I can not readily separate into each great grandparent line. But that will be later once I draw out all of the matches back to the First Chromosome. So today, if there is time, I will work on the 16th Chromosome which has 62 matches and six are known to me as various levels of cousinship.
Must complete my morning exercises, make tea and do my solitaire puzzles.
