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Grief that means my brothers were right all along - that I'm a bit of a banana..... Thanks for the education!

Phil

                      I took the ancestry DNA test with a view to unlocking some brick walls in my Goater and Langdale ancestry. My paper trail tells me that my 3 x great grandfather was Joseph Goater and his son Henry definitely married Jane Langdale in India who was the daughter of William Langdale who joined the 11th Light Dragoons in England. I was hoping to find out if I linked with the large Goater clan which emanates from Sparsholt and get an idea where William came from.
                     So much for that! Not a single tree of any of my ancestry DNA matches has a Goater or a Langdale in it! I have definite matches with the family of my great grandmother Goater (nee Smith) and other lines on my mother's side have been clearly confirmed and strengthened through DNA cousins sharing common ancestors. On the other hand there are no unexplained close matches either. Should I assume my great grandmother was unfaithful ? I am loathe to let go of the Langdale connection which has generated some interesting research!

Phil Goater

A postscript to the excellent information received above -

The GRO index reveals that Alice Phillips mother's maiden name was 'P...Mid' and that Herbert Edward Phillip's mother's name was Pentlshmid.

Google doesn't recognise the name (did you mean Paul Schmid? (!)) but expanding it to Pentelschmid
did throw up the name in one or two old German books.

Phil

Sorry - my mistake! I was so eager to make the enquiry I misspelt the name. Poduschnick it is and yes please Liz!

Phil