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« on: Tuesday 30 June 20 03:06 BST (UK) »
Hi Ken
My subscription not current with ancestry so I am having a bit of trouble bringing up the information from the census.
I haveWilliam Smith in 1841 in hetton le hole and in 1851 in easington.
He had remarried late in life and had more children to a very young wife.
I have him as born Newry, Ireland but note that many of these travelling families vary their place of birth significantly on different census.
My mother has 554 dna matches to people who interconnect. They have the names Smith, Francis, Mullen, Wharton, Boswell among others in their families.
Some appear to be descendants of William Smith born 1790. He appears to have arrived in the north of England about the same time as Henry. On one census they live very near each other. Both have the same occupation.
Many of the interconnecting dna matches lead to Henry Smith and Alice Francis. Particularly a group that left Durham in the mid 1850 s and travelled across America. some of this group have only given up travelling within the last generation.
Have you a dna test I could check for a match against?
Regards
Deb