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Hello all:

I'm a NYer usually on here trying to research my family in England. Today, I'm trying to help a friend who was given up for adoption in 1965. He recently obtained the name of his birth mother on his birth certificate and while he feels confident she may have died (due to rumors he heard about her life and the circumstances of his birth), he still wants to know about that side of his family. I have tried every search site I can think of, including old local papers and can find nothing on this woman. The closest I found was a woman with the same surname, but different first name, living at the address listed on the birth certificate. When I search for info on her, there is noting but the name and address. I don't even know if she is still alive. I don't really want to blindly send a letter unless it's a last resort.

The person I'm searching for is as follows:

Surname Farrar (I don't know if I'm allowed to post her first name in case she is still alive)
No birth father listed
DOB Cir. 1943 - Listed as 22 at time of birth in September of 1965
Residence -Brooklyn, NY

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

Hello:

Maybe some DNA sleuth on here can suss this out. I would think it would be fairly easy, but its hurting my head.

For years I've been tracing my McQuire line in England. The line has always been a mystery. as far as we know my Great Grandfather Arthur George McQuire was an only child of George McQuire and Susannah Weatherhead McQuire of Staines and formerly of Ashford, Kent. Henry MacQuire (1813) MAY be another generation back, but no proof. Family wants to believe they go back to the MacQuarrie clan of Ulva, but since there have been many MANY misspellings though the years (MacQuire, McGuire, McWire, McQuor, Quire, etc etc etc- I've seen them all)who knows! Maybe we were originally a McGuire from Ireland and someone misspelled it as McQuire....

Anyway, Since there is one McQuire left in my line and he has no children I asked him to take a familytreedna test and he graciously agreed. I figured I'd go the DNA route to solve the mystery.

I excepted a similar results to my Taylor line which has hundreds of matches and goes back in the UK for thousands of years.... I was sort of bowled over when I saw his halogroup and realized its fairly uncommon. As a matter of fact, he has only 8 Y-DNA matches and they are all here in the American south.  That SHOULD be a good thing right? Find the earliest US McQuire, see when they came over, then when I get to England, trace forward from the 18th century, instead of back.

So first question.. if I'm incorrect you can stop reading and just type back, "you're wrong"...

We only took the Y-37 test for familytreedna.... Any matches I have would be straight down the paternal line, correct? father to son to grandfather etc etc? So we would have to share a direct male ancestor?


If that is correct, here is the first mystery... I've written all 8 people.... at first I was getting responses of No McQuire/McQuire in our trees... seems the most frequent surname is Baker or Leeds.... So I'm thinking.. Maybe we aren't McQuire's after all... Maybe there was a baby Baker or a Leeds 200 years ago adopted by a McQuire and the name when down to line to my cousin with us all thinking we originated from the McQuire...

Finally, One of my matches responded in the affirmative.. He had  McQuire/McGuire (I've posted line below....) Hurray!! Breakthrough! Not..

Bring on the next Mystery...

This person states his Ancestors are as follows....

Zachariah McGuire(1730–) Born in Virginia - Died in Georgia
Thomas (Thompson) Mcquire(1770-1840) - Possibly married to Margaret Hayes 1795 Georgia
Martha Patsy Mcquire(1795-1860) - married a William Hilley

Father/Son/granddaughter...

That can't be accurate match for my Y-DNA can it??



Here are the earliest ancestors of our 8 familytreeDNA matches. No living peoples names shown...



Genetic Distance 0   
 Y-DNA67    FF   
James Leeds, b c1695   T-M70

0 Genetic Distance
Y-DNA67       
John Baker, b 1603, England   T-M70

0 - Genetic Distance   
Y-DNA111    FF   
William J Baker, b.1811 and d. 1879   T-M70   

   
1 - distance   
Jn C Cox
Y-DNA37    FF   
T-M70      


1 - distance   
 Y-DNA37       
William John Murphey, b. 1798 Vg. d. 1863 Mo.   T-M70

1- distance   
Y-DNA37       
Bartholomew Baker 1621 Eng-? Richmond, VA   T-M70   

1 - distance   
Y-DNA37       
James Terry Baker 1791 SC-1850 MS   T-M70   
   



So there is definitely a Leeds-Baker-McQuire/McGuire connection. Don't know where the Cox came from... just not sure how that would work, unless for example, a Baker or Leeds child was adopted by a McQuire......

Anyone that can at all help i would be most appreciative! Thank you
David

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Hi, I saw there was an Old Bailey post and I tried to add this that that thread, but I couldn't.

2 people who were the victims (George and Ruth Taylor) of a burglary I suspect were my ancestors.

99. Monday, 11 February 1734 George Taylor complains yt [last night deleted] this morning his house in Well Street was broke open. Geo: Taylor, Ruth Taylor [and] Thomas Prior Sworn. Ruth Taylor found her house entred in her absence & found Severall things packt up to be carryed off Viz a linnen Apron a Silver Spoon a pr: Silver buckles & Some other things. Geo: Taylor confirms ye same. Tho: Prior says yt coming in ye time he found Elisa: Robinson in G: Taylors garden hidden & believed She was ye person yt had been in ye house. Made out a Warrt: to take up Elisa: Robinson.

Is there other information that would be listed with the Old Bailey? ie, date of birth, ages, full legal name, exact address? There is a possibility Ruth was actually a middle name.

Thanks
David