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  I can't quite match that, I must have been about 13 when my mother asked the rector to look up our family in the parish registers. I still have the bit of card he wrote them on! He was also horrified to find so many old registers in the church and sent them forthwith to Canterbury Cathedral.

  That all seems fairly unanimous! I will try to get back to them.

  I would think a fellow servant was just as likely to be the father, maybe more so.

  I noticed that the ethnicity estimates have been altered, not sure when, and I appear to have acquired 3% of Welsh, where from I can't imagine. And I know we don't have to take it too seriously!

 However, they have also divided the DNA between parents, which has left me really baffled. The bit of Scottish has come from one parent, my father, which I understand, but the similar amount of Irish and the little bit of Welsh are from the other parent, and that makes no sense to me at all. There is a known bit of Irish in father's ancestry, and a missing line through illegitimacy, but mother is solidly Kent on one side and Essex/Suffolk on the other.

   Any ideas on this please?

  My children are both moderately interested in the family history, and neither of them are declutterers by nature, so they won't throw things away. However, I do realise that most of the work was done for my own interest, and just reading what someone else has done is not quite so gripping!
   I have started doing a bit of clearing and annotating of both paperwork and computer documents. I have even said "you don't really need to keep this" about some of the stuff.