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Any ideas please..... My daughter has just received her results from her My Heritage DNA test.

I am mostly English (as far as I know - I've just had my test done and am waiting for results) , a touch of Irish and a smidgen of Italian from my Greatx5 grandfather. My husband is Breton for many, many generations. Nearly all of his ancestors came from nearby villages or towns.

Although the result does not give my daughter as French, it does give her as 53.4% Irish, Scottish, Welsh - which I suppose is the Celtic connection between Brittany and those countries, plus my drop of Irish. She is 32% English (from me I would imagine).

What intrigues her is that she has 6.3 % Iberian and 7.2 % North African. She also has 1.1 % Nigerian. The North African and Iberian does seem quite a lot.

Would this be from her Breton/French side?

My brother had a test done via Ancestry some time back and he is 86 % England, Wales and N W Europe and 11% Ireland/Scotland. So it would seem no North African on our side....

How reliable is My Heritage? Someone I know has just had her results and, although her family tree shows her as English, English and more English, her results said 48% Scandinavian and 50 per cent Irish, Scottish, Welsh!

I would be very interested to hear you thoughts and explanations.

Many thanks
Tilly xx

Good afternoon,

I am trying to find the death of Mary Peryer (could be spelt Perryer, or Perrier), née Fuller. According to the 1851 census, she was born in abt 1813 in Rudgwick. In the 1861 census, Thomas (living in Rudgwick) is a widower.

According to other trees on Ancestry, her death was in 1857. I ordered the death cert and have just received it. I am pretty sure it is not my Mary Peryer.                 

The death certificate states the following : name Mary Perver, widow of Thomas Perver, a Miller. Informant Charlotte Perver. Died 25th January 1857, aged 78, in Compton.           I have found a Thomas Perver on FreeBMD, death registered in Chichester in 1843, also a Charlotte Perver who died in Sussex in 1877. So it certainly looks as if the info on the Ancestry trees is wrong.

But I cannot find my Mary Peryer! The exact address in the 1851 census is Mill Hill, Rudgwick.

I would be very grateful for any help in finding the right Mary Peryer.

Many thanks

Tilly xx

Good afternoon,

I would be very grateful if someone could colour in this photo for me, please. It is of some of my aunts and one uncle, dated 1928. The girls all had brown hair, except for Elsie who is the little blonde girl in the front. I am going to share it with my cousins whose mothers are on the photo.

Many thanks in advance

Tilly xx

Good afternoon,

Could anyone tell me which school a girl would have been likely to attend in Hammersmith in the late 1890s (1896 to 1904).

Margaret Peryer was 7 years old in 1896 and lived in The Friends' Meeting House, Lower Mall where her father was caretaker.  I have found her brother, Maurice, at Waterloo Street School, but this seems to be boys only.

Many thanks for any help/ideas.

Tilly x

Good afternoon, I am desperately hunting for the birth of Michael Peryer    I can find him in all the censuses, his death, electoral registers, his childrens' baptisms, his marriage..... but no birth. I have tried FreeBMD, Ancestry, Family Search and FindMyPast with all the various spellings I can think of, and a phonetic search. I have had one last look before posting this message, just in case, but no luck. It seems he was beamed down by a spaceship as I cannot find him anywhere. From the various censuses, his year of birth is 1846 and I have tried ten years either side. His parents were Thomas Peryer and Mary Fuller.  I should be VERY grateful for any help finding him. Many thanks. Tilly