Brigidmac, I haven't explained clearly! And sorry if this explanation is a bit long winded!
My 2G grandparents were John Laversuch and Mary Newman, who had eight children who married and had families. I am matches with descendants of four of them.
John Laversuch travelled all over the North of England and Midlands with his job as railway labourer, helping to build the railways between 1841 until retirement. They married in Middleton Cheney, children were born in Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Wirral, Cheshire, Northamptonshire, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Cumbria. Census adds a few different places as well. They moved on as soon as the job was finished, so literally could have been anywhere else as well.
Two daughters also married railway labourers, who in turn worked all over England from the 1870s. One was my great grandfather, working mainly in the NW. The other one, John Smith, worked all over Yorkshire, Derbyshire,Gloucestershire and other places.
My closest match in this group is a third cousin, sharing 153 cM across 7 segments, another predicted third cousin shares 132/7. Then come these 2 unknowns, 61/4 and 57/5
Other third cousins are also predicted as 4 to 6 cousins.
These two matches are my 7th and 9th closest matches (think they were 3rd and 5th when I first got my results back).
I suggested to my match manager that perhaps they were descended from either John (hopefully before he married!), or his Smith son in law and daughter.
The reply was
"No one in our family tree moved out of yorkshire or came in to yorkshire from the places you mention. I have a couple of illegitimacies but nothing to prove paternity was from a roving raiwayman"
A bit of a putdown, I think you'll agree. She has not replied to any messages since then. I would think it is one of her illegitimacies, but since she is unwilling to discuss further, I have no idea what time frame or place to look at.
One of those things, but I would dearly love to know the connectIon between such relatively close matches.
She has a private unlinked tree attached, so I can't even search for place names in common.
Regards Margaret