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Longford / Re: Same family of Percivals in Longford and Leitrim
« on: Saturday 17 February 24 23:07 GMT (UK) »
Hello everyone, So, 29 years after I started enquiring about my Percival family from my English uncle Robert Percival FRCS FRCOG we are no further along the road to discovering where our Percival family originated. I am now 77 and need to deal with this.
I suspect that John b.1795(?) was at least second generation in Ireland.
Ancestry DNA relates me to all of you Neil, Amanda, Larry, Bill's wife and perhaps others and between us I think we have a very comprehensive tree since 1815
It would appear that many of the Percival men were RIC, some were tenant farmers. One was a bog ranger(a bit disappointing),a postmaster, bailiff.
They were protestant.
Did they arrive in the military?
Did they come with some planted landowner?
Were they Scots or English originally?
Unfortunately DNA on Ancestry only goes back to John's generation as far as I can see so I don't have any Percival matches from any earlier people.
What do we do next?
I'm almost at the point of calling in an expert to help. Does anyone else want to be involved in this?
I think I'm crowd sourcing here!
Who do we approach?
Anyway I'd like to hear opinions
I suspect that John b.1795(?) was at least second generation in Ireland.
Ancestry DNA relates me to all of you Neil, Amanda, Larry, Bill's wife and perhaps others and between us I think we have a very comprehensive tree since 1815
It would appear that many of the Percival men were RIC, some were tenant farmers. One was a bog ranger(a bit disappointing),a postmaster, bailiff.
They were protestant.
Did they arrive in the military?
Did they come with some planted landowner?
Were they Scots or English originally?
Unfortunately DNA on Ancestry only goes back to John's generation as far as I can see so I don't have any Percival matches from any earlier people.
What do we do next?
I'm almost at the point of calling in an expert to help. Does anyone else want to be involved in this?
I think I'm crowd sourcing here!
Who do we approach?
Anyway I'd like to hear opinions