ThruLines are Ancestry’s way of trying to connect DNA matches with genealogical matches. And this gets to the heart of genetic genealogy. I do not recall ever looking at my Hatch ThruLines. My Hatch ancestors tended to be in Cape Cod, hence the village of Hatchville:
I assume that some of my Hatch ancestors lived near there in Falmouth off Rte 151 on the road to Mashpee.
My 5th great-grandfather was Nathaniel Hatch Jr.:
He was born in Falmouth in 1743 and married Olive Bearse. I should also point out that my second great grandfather has Hatch as a middle name, likely from his maternal grandmother Prudence Hatch.
Joyce’s Hatch ThruLines
I will cheat a little and use Joyce. She is my father’s cousin, so a generation closer to the Hatch family. Nathaniel Hatch Jr. is at the far extent of my ThruLines, but is in the next to the last tier for Joyce:
Here we see Joyce has two matches with proposed Nathaniel Hatch Jr. descendants.
Joyce and Richard
There are two problems with this match. First, the match is on Joyce’s paternal side according to Ancestry:
Secondly, Richard does not have a great tree:
There is a third issue in that the shared matches between Joyce and Richard do not look familiar. I will skip evauating this ThruLine. So, the genealoyg may match up but I cannot tell and the DNA seems off.
Joyce and K.C.
K.C. shows as a maternal DNA match, so that would be on my side. K.C. and Joyce have many shared surnames:
.However, of all those shared surnames, Ancestry picked Hatch, so I will look at that connection.
K.C.’s tree goes back to Nathaniel Hatch Jr. which is a good sign. Grace was living in Dartmouth, Massachusetts in 1920, though her birthplace is listed as California:
Social Security fills in the father missing from the 1920 Census:
Next, I am looking for Arthur’s mother. According to Arthur’s marriage record, his mother was Clara Sawyer:
Here is Clara in 1860 in New Bedford:
Stephen appears to be a tin plate worker. Next, I am intersted in Stephen’s mother. Here is an entry from findagrave.com:
The Olive Hatch Sawyer name is interesting. She must have been named for her grandmother who would have been Olive Hatch nee Bearse. Olive’s death record in Medford gives a lot of information:
Her husband is Gideon Sawyer. She died in Medford, but her residence was, New Bedford:
She was born in New Bedford. Her father was born in Westport. Her mother was Drusilla Hatch, born in Falmouth, Massachusetts. This record closes the loop. I just need to merge Drusilla with this floating tree with the Drusilla in my main tree.
My First Hatch DNA/Genealogy Chart
I can now make my first Hatch DNA/Genealogy Chart. However, I see a problem already. It appears that I am missing a generation in my vertical tree. I don’t see Nathaniel Hatch Jr. and Olive Bearse. Actually, I do see them, but Drusilla got connected a generation too early.
I’ll remove Drusilla’s parents:
Then I’ll add in the correct ones. However, it looks like I added a comma to his name, so he is not showing up:
When I type in Hatch for the search, I find him:
Problem solved:
Here is the problem:
The Jr. needs to go in the Suffix box. The exercise is helpful in cleaning up my Hatch tree at Ancestry:
Findagrave.com is helpful again:
Hatch DNA/Genealogy Chart
Here is my first humble Hatch Chart:
Joel and Susan
Next, I will look at this ThruLine:
Here is Susan’s tree:
Susan’s tree is not a perfect match with the ThruLine, but let’s take a look. Here is Geraldine in 1930 in Wareham, Massachusetts:
Her father, Lawrence or Clarence is a carpenter. Here is Anna in 1910:
Anna’s father is the manager of a department store. Lillian or Lilles was born in New Bedford. Here are her parents:
Robert T Hillman was born in New Bedford also. Based on this, I accepted the Ancestry hints for Lilles’ parents:
Lilles is living on North Pleasant Street, New Bedford in 1880:
Her mother-in-law, Tabitha is living with them. Here is the family in 1860:
It is actually Tabitha that I am looking for. Here is a confusing Marriage record for Henry Hillman in New Bedford:
Does this mean that Henry married Olive Hatch and then two years later married Tabitha Hatch? I will at least enter the second Hatch marriage.
Here is Tabiltha’s death record:
Henry was her husband. “Hatch” is her maiden name. She was born in Falmouth:
Her parents, Isaiah and Lucy were born in Falmouth and Sandwich. So, next, I would like to link this line to my Ancsetry Tree. I did that, and now I will add this line to my Hatch DNA/Genealogy Chart:
I also added myself.
My sister Heidi’s Hatch ThruLines
Heidi matches Lincoln and Bridget:
As I look at my old Blogs, I see that I already have a Hatch DNA/Genealogy Tree:
I like the shiny yellow tree, so I will keep that. I also already have K.C. and Susan, but I don’t see Bridget. I see that in this Blog, there was some confusion in the trees going back to Falmouth, so I didn’t add Bridget.
Giving Bridget Another Shot
Bridget has a shared match with CH:
Our shared ancestors are Isaiah Hatch Snell and Hannah Bradford.
Bridget and Heidi also have a shared match with O.T.:
Their shared match goes back to:
Otis Snell was married to Mary Ann Parker. Her mother was Prudence Hatch. It is not proof, but Bridget seems to be in the right company. Here is what I had in my old Blog:
This suggests that there were two Rebecca Hatches. One born of Nathaniel Hatch and Olive Bearse and one born of Isaiah Hatch and Lucy. However, the Isaiah Hatch married to Lucy Nye that I have was born in 1780, so he could not be the father of this Rebecca Hatch. The author quotes Beer’ Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts which may be inaccurate or out of date.
I will create a floating tree for Bridget in my tree. I wasn’t doing that when I wrote my previous Blog a year ago. I have that Allen was born in Hyannis. In 1940, he was living with his great-grandfather in Falmouth. Allen’s father was a clert at a lumber company:
The is the route I am checking out:
Here is as far as I have gotten in my own tree going back from Bridget:
Bessie marries in 1912 in New Bedford. Her mother, as expected, is Adeline Parker:
Bessie’s husband is listed as a pay master. In 1900, Bessie’s father is listed as a machinist in New Bedford:
Next, I am following Adeline (Addie). In 1860, Addie is in Falmouth:
Addie’s middle name is Louisa for her mother. Next, I skip back a generation to John H Parker. He marries Louisa Nye of Fairhaven in 1839. Remember that Isaiah Hatch married a Lucy Nye a generation earlier. Here is some information from findagrave.com:
I wonder if John’s middle name was Hatch? We do see the Nye name in James Parker. Here is John’s Falmouth birth record;
Next, we look to Rebecca. Here is their marriage record:
This clue is cast in stone:
This is from the Falmouth East End Burial ground, appropriately on Hatchville Road:
Findagrave.com has Rebecca’s parents as Isaiah and Lucy Hatch:
Here are some Falmouth Town records:
If we take this to be the Rebecca that married Silvanus Parker, she was 78 years and 9 months according to her grave marker. Add that to her birth date would put her death at January 1855 which is a year after the grave marker. However, the original calculation may have been off. I do not have definitive information proving that this is the right Rebecca, but most of the information I have found on the internet leads me to think that Rebecca was the daughter of Isaiah Hatch and Olive Bearse.
Here is how I believe Bridget fits into my Hatch DNA/Genealogy Chart:
Summary and Conclusions
- I set out to create a Hatch DNA/Genealogy Chart only to find out I had already created one.
- In a previous Blog, I had decided to hold off on Rebecca Hatch descendant Bridget as there was some confusion as to the parentage of Rebecca Hatch.
- That confusion was based on an older publication which referred to an older publication. That information seemed to go against other information that I was able to find on the internet.
- In addition, Bridget had shared matches with two of my Snell relatives whose ancestry also goes back to the Hatch family.