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Somerset / Re: William Gould (1757-1822), Weston Super Mare - Last Will & Testament
« on: Monday 11 September 23 20:34 BST (UK)  »
When I need an estate duty Will I go to my local Family History Center in the U.S.A. You can see the database at familysearch.org. Look at the catalog and search for Somerset, England. Then open the folder for Probate and there you will see a link to estate duty wills.

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Kent / Re: Kent: Deal St. George & Deal St. Leonard
« on: Thursday 23 February 23 19:06 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you, Jebber.

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Kent / Kent: Deal St. George & Deal St. Leonard
« on: Thursday 23 February 23 17:31 GMT (UK)  »
I have just read that Deal St. George began as a "chapel of ease" in Lower Deal and that it was related to Deal St. Leonard in Upper Deal. https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Deal,_Kent_Genealogy.

Using FindMyPast, I found the 1771 baptism record for one of my ancestors recorded in the parish registers of both Deal St. George and Deal St. Leonard.

Was it the practice for baptisms in a chapel of ease to be recorded at the parent church as well?

Was my ancestor baptized only at Deal St. George?

Comments please on how to interpret the situation.

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Armed Forces / Re: Royal Navy Lieutenant was superceded in 1769
« on: Friday 17 February 23 21:25 GMT (UK)  »
Lt. Forster was age 28 in 1769 so probably not superannuated.

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Armed Forces / Royal Navy Lieutenant was superceded in 1769
« on: Friday 17 February 23 15:28 GMT (UK)  »
The attachment shows a 1769 muster-table entry (for HM Sloop Cruizer) for a Royal Navy commissioned lieutenant who was superceded. The usual meaning of "superceded" would be replaced. The attachment also shows that the lieutenant's servant was let go at the same time as of officer.

Was there any special Royal Navy meaning for "superceded"?

The word "superceded" is in a column entititled "Whither or for what Reason." The month and day are in the column "Time of Discharge."

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Which DNA test to purchase?
« on: Saturday 10 December 22 14:31 GMT (UK)  »
I am partial to the y-dna "next generation sequencing" test called BigY700 and also to a better priced equivalent that is part of a whole genome sequencing test sold by a German laboratory. After 25 years of searching for matches to my USA surname in Somerset parish registers, with no results, a chance autosomal DNA match led me to a particular parish and suggested my surname back in the 1700's could have been different from now. That match led me to search for Wills (persons with a surname other than my own) and by chance I found a Will by a man who mentioned the names of his three sons (one of whom was "in America"). I was able to find a descendant of one of the sons (not the one in America) and got a confirming y-dna match from the descendant by testing only for my own "terminal SNP". Then, using a triangulation approach, I confirmed that the man who wrote the Will had to have been my ancestor in England.

My opinion is that it could be very useful for anyone (even females who can test a brother or father or uncle etc) to establish a male full sequence of SNP mutations as a baseline for working with future possible matches. In my particular case, my terminal SNP mutation is estimated to be about 200 years ago. Anyone else with that same mutation would definitely be my cousin, whatever the surname.

Full sequencing y-dna tests produce both SNPs and STRs. In my own experience, working with STRs to try to locate and prove match connections was extremely difficult and did not produce the accuracy of terminal SNP matching.

Which type of y-dna full sequencing to purchase should not be made until one understands what y-tree databases are available. In my case I tested in a manner allowing access to two match databases. Some haplogroups may be better represented in one database and not the other.

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The Common Room / East India Ships - Crossing the "Second Bar"
« on: Thursday 24 November 22 15:14 GMT (UK)  »
I have been reading about East India ships bound for China during the late 1700's. In descriptions of the return route, there is often a reference to "crossing the Second Bar." Does that refer to a location on the Pearl River, or could it be the Hooghly?

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Somerset / Re: I'm probably being thick! FindMyPast disappointment
« on: Thursday 03 November 22 19:38 GMT (UK)  »
I notice in the Dinnington parish register for 1759-1779 (at image 6 of 13) the following entry under Baptisms for "ye Year 1765":

"April ye 28th Simeon ye Son of Thos & Hannah Pool of Sevington St Michael was nam'd."

For the years 1765-1770 I see no mention in the Dinnington register of a Simon Joseph or Joseph Pool (or Poole).

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Somerset / Re: I'm probably being thick! FindMyPast disappointment
« on: Monday 31 October 22 14:03 GMT (UK)  »
Image 59 of 90 in the Seavington St. Michael PR for 1558-1810 (Ancestry) reads: "Simmon ye Son of Thomas Pool and Honour his Wife was born ye 1th of Aprill 1765 and Private baptizd ye 21." Image 60 includes his and Mary's "public" baptism.

There is a burial record (image 11 of 21) in Durleigh Parish, Somerset of 21 January 1848 for Simeon (Simion?) Poole, abode Durleigh, age 83 (calculates to birth in 1765; is this Simmon or Simon of Seavington?).

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