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Hope someone can help me with explanation of below.

I have X match with 3 sisters. My brother has X match with one of them.

The common ancestors are the 4 x gt grandparents of the sisters and the 3 x gt grandparents of my brother and I in England. We are now in Australia and the sisters in the USA.

The ancestors are on my father's direct male line and my brother and I still have that surname.

My brother and I are from the son of our 3 x gt g/parents and the 3 sisters are from a brother and sister of those ancestors (their 4 x gt g/ parents) - 3 siblings of the 3 x and 4 x gt g/parents.

For the 3 sisters a daughter of the male sibling married a son of the female sibling and their daughter married a man (the gt grandfather of the sisters) whose surname is the maiden name of the 3 sisters.

Given X is suposed to come from our mother or our father's mother I don't understand the X matches we have.

I hope someone can explain, please.

I am trying to find out what "Ned" means. I encountered on Griffiths - "William Moore (Ned)". Later  I read people's nicknames were often in brackets. Now on a marriage record I have come across "Mr James Con Creswill, Nedd, to Anne......".

William above is in other records and Ned doesn't appear nor is he referred to as William Edward Moore.

Can anyone advise what it might mean, please?

I am trying to identify the James LONG who married Sarah BUSBY on 11 Oct 1792 in Standlake parish, Oxfordshire.

In many trees he has been identified as James son of George LONG and Elizabeth WARD christened on 23 May 1768 in Standlake Parish.

However, according to the Standlake parish register James Long son of George and Elizabeth died 25 Aug 1769. These two records are on the same double page image of the register along with the birth of James' younger brother Thomas chr. 02 July 1769. Maybe James' death has been attributed to Thomas.

If the register is correct then the wrong James Long is attributed as marrying Sarah Busby on 11 Oct 1792 at Standlake (there is a marriage earlier in Oct 1792 for a James Long and Sarah Busby elsewhere in Oxfordshire). From 1795 there is a series of children of James and Sarah Long chr. in Standlake (2) and the remainder in Shifford.

A possible James Long would be his cousin, son of George's brother William chr. 1737 and married 1761 to Ann Ed(g)ington. Their son James was chr. 1765 at Hanborough. George Long's Will 1788/Probate 1789 is on the OFHS site.

Would anyone have researched these people and be able to advise?

I am descended from Solomon Long chr. 8 Sep 1805 in Shifford son of James Long and Sarah (Busby).

Marilyn Long
Sydney, Australia

Would anyone have the names of the Co Derry people in the ships in the 1718 Migration to the USA, please? I am trying to find if there were any people with surname Moore from the Lough Foyle area,

I have already looked at the 1718 Migration website.

Has anyone researched John Vickery, Bow Street police officer 1799-1822. I am trying to build a picture of his life in connection with his son or adopted son Christopher Brown otherwise Vickery who came to Australia in early 1820s.

I would like to verify I have correct details of his birth and marriage and ascertain if he married a second time.