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Yorkshire (West Riding) / New, Old topic. Still looking for my Holdsworth family line
« on: Friday 15 April 22 00:58 BST (UK) »
Hi all new and older members,
I posted in 2011 about trying to find my Holdsworth family. I can only trace them back to Charles Holdsworth born circa 1801 in Idle, according to the 1841 census. I descended through his son William, b. 1819 according to the paper trail. Charles appears in that census and doesn’t show again. No BDM paper trail, for Charles. We bought all death certificates for a Charles up to the 1851 census (he doesn’t appear on it). No marriage listing for William’s mother. No birth listing for William. I have William’s marriage certificate to Mary Gill.
Four years ago my sisters and I took DNA test of several different sites. At this point we have become quite familiar with genetic genealogy, even helping adoptees to identify birth families, but we cannot solve the puzzle of our complete lack of DNA matches on our Holdsworth line.
We have found multiple DNA matches to each of Mother’s family surnames back to Charles Henry Holdsworth, but we have nothing that proves genetically that William Holdsworth 1819 or Charles Holdsworth 1801 are linked.
I have one small DNA match with the surname Holdsworth, my middle sister has none at all and my youngest sister has two. I am fresh out of ideas to continue my searching. We don’t even have mystery groups of any significance, with DNA matches. Any advice about how to proceed from here will be gratefully accepted.
Kind regards,
Jill Ross
I posted in 2011 about trying to find my Holdsworth family. I can only trace them back to Charles Holdsworth born circa 1801 in Idle, according to the 1841 census. I descended through his son William, b. 1819 according to the paper trail. Charles appears in that census and doesn’t show again. No BDM paper trail, for Charles. We bought all death certificates for a Charles up to the 1851 census (he doesn’t appear on it). No marriage listing for William’s mother. No birth listing for William. I have William’s marriage certificate to Mary Gill.
Four years ago my sisters and I took DNA test of several different sites. At this point we have become quite familiar with genetic genealogy, even helping adoptees to identify birth families, but we cannot solve the puzzle of our complete lack of DNA matches on our Holdsworth line.
We have found multiple DNA matches to each of Mother’s family surnames back to Charles Henry Holdsworth, but we have nothing that proves genetically that William Holdsworth 1819 or Charles Holdsworth 1801 are linked.
I have one small DNA match with the surname Holdsworth, my middle sister has none at all and my youngest sister has two. I am fresh out of ideas to continue my searching. We don’t even have mystery groups of any significance, with DNA matches. Any advice about how to proceed from here will be gratefully accepted.
Kind regards,
Jill Ross