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1801
The Common Room / Re: NPE Nightmare!
« on: Tuesday 22 March 22 20:20 GMT (UK)  »
That's very interesting .

I helped someone who had lots of Pennsylvania matches we traced the common ancestor back to someone who went to salt lake city became latter day saint and had several wives and lots of children American descendants tend to test more readily than British ones so she had a lot of matches from that one line .

They didn't all have a man in common as the younger  wives also had several remarriages
So if the mutual ancestor is a woman you can expect different surnames

Looks like you could  identified your grandmother's true birth father or narrow it down
A second cousin level can be a half first
Cousin as only share one grandparent

1802
The Lighter Side / Re: Impossible births
« on: Tuesday 22 March 22 17:49 GMT (UK)  »
I must say I one clicked on a baptism with all the correct names and places date did not show on page but I soon realized it was 100 years too early and corrected it .
Could have been enough time for someone to copy my error

1803
The Common Room / Re: NPE Nightmare!
« on: Tuesday 22 March 22 17:44 GMT (UK)  »
Has she got any siblings who might be more willing to test ?

My aunt was thrilled with idea of spitting into a tube age 90 to see if she could discover any living cousins or nephews and nieces the other side of the world 🙂

Ps I wonder if Callum has seen all these answers yet

1804
The Common Room / Re: NPE Nightmare!
« on: Tuesday 22 March 22 17:03 GMT (UK)  »
If you have uncles that could test and either other siblings or cousins that will help because you all inherit different bits .

If grandma doesn't want to test that's understandable .

Sometimes it may not look as if there is a match because a cousins grandmother could have a different surname but this could be to to with a remarriage some people put the latest married surname on their tree example granny JONES. Who'd been previously married to a LEA but was actually born a JONES
Or your  father grandfather or great-grandfather  may have been adopted so is who he says he is on all documents but may have had a different birth name .this would affect your matches .

I'm also intrigued to know what led you to those conclusions

1805
The Common Room / Re: Baptism records : child's surname from a married man ?
« on: Tuesday 22 March 22 16:02 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Dod  for extra information
& Bumble Bee for that last correction
I didn't note the profession of Charles WORSTALL in the censuses I looked at
He was a printers apprentice age 14
* In 1891 he was in army as corporal so proffession not mentioned .



1806
Wales / Re: DNA success WALES common surnames
« on: Tuesday 22 March 22 15:40 GMT (UK)  »
To continue with success story one of my mother's second cousins had a very small tree and had not put herself as the home person on it . So I couldn't identify her lineage til years after when I came across her grandfather surname CORNTHWAITE in a tree of a much more distant relative .

A great aunt had told the tale of Abiah sister
Dorcas JONES 1847 who  ran away with a farmhand James  ROBERTS  aged 15  disowned by father but brother must have stayed in touch because knew she had 10  children (. i've actually found total of 15 )

*  her 7th daughter Emma ROBERTS b 1882  who  worked in coalmines as a teenager had 6 children with CORNTHWAITE. Surname
She followed their father to South Africa to mine gold baptised 2 of the children on returnto Manchester 1907 . Emma didn't actually marry James CORNTHWAITE until 1915 when he was ill
he died 1917  she had another son in 1919 who was also given CORNTHWAITE surname ! 
They are the most exciting of my DNA matches .....so far

1807
The Common Room / Re: Baptism records : child's surname from a married man ?
« on: Tuesday 22 March 22 12:54 GMT (UK)  »
I think Charles WORSTALL. Must have been from a military family
I'm connected to his wife
Their son was in air force

Charles siblings were all born in different places .

Thanks for all the detective work .
I wonder if like you said the middle name was inserted in anticipation of the adoption and not a family connection

Poor Thomas had toddler Annie and young Amelia  on his hands too

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1808
The Common Room / Re: Baptism records : child's surname from a married man ?
« on: Tuesday 22 March 22 12:46 GMT (UK)  »
Reply 3
It was adoptive parents  Charles WORSTALL and Hannah Price who married in 1826

Regarding profession on baptism Thomas is down as a compositor
I wasn't sure what that was but thanks for finding the link to painter as a profession

1809
The Common Room / Re: Baptism records : child's surname from a married man ?
« on: Tuesday 22 March 22 12:38 GMT (UK)  »
I think I had  the wrong Thomas APPLEGARTH with WILSON. As his mother in law's name .

No I don't have original birth certificate it's quite a distant relative but my curiosity was peaked

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