hurworth, your comment is very interesting. I wonder if your DNA “results” might be what has happened with my DNA situation.
According to the latest DNA update, the ethnicity estimate is
32% Scottish, 38% Ireland, 15% England & NW Europe for me
38% Scottish, 29% Ireland, 21% England & NW Europe for my brother
and little bits and pieces equaling 100%.
I know that the estimate covers more than just Scotland, etc., but I have yet to find any Scottish ancestors (one gggmother was born in Belfast, Ireland but I don’t believe my known ancestors lived in the area covered in the Scottish region - that is another thing that I will put on my list of things to check).
Getting to the point, out of my four gggparents, I have several matches with Mumford descendants (Mumford married Vaus) several matches with the other gggfather (Stuart) and at least one match with the other gggmother (Fowley).
I only know for certain that James Stuart was born in Sligo, Ireland, c1815 (Sarah Fowley was born in Sligo, but I don’t know anything about Sarah’s parents). However, we aren’t positive where James’ parents were born. Perhaps more Scottish DNA was passed down, possibly cancelling out a large percentage of the Vaus DNA and over time, the percentage grew even less.
If I correctly read your comment and correctly applied it to my ancestors, the above could be one reason I have not yet found Vaus descendants.
Thank you for explaining your situation. It has really made me think!