Let’s look at Joan’s standard clusters. Here is Joan’s tree:
Joan’s ancestors are what I would call Canadian Maritime.
Here are the standard clusters:
The note at the top suggests she has over 100 matches, so there is no overall display.
I’ll start from the bottom and work up.
The 3 match cluster is Rhynold.
The first 4 match cluster from the bottom suggests Dicks as it has this match:
Checking Shirley’s Tree
I’ll create a floating tree for Shirley and then connect it to mine if it looks right.
Shirley has a private tree, but I am guessing that her father and grandfather at least could be right. Ancestry suggests this source, perhaps from Shirley’s tree:
Here is a clue for Ignatius also:
Here is Rushoon compared to Harbour Buffet where Joan’s ancestors came from:
Here is the 1921 Census showing where Joseph was born:
This is my guess for the marriage of Joseph Dicks:
However, the marriage is in a Methodist Church and Ignatius was apparently Roman Catholic. The name Ignatious would be Roman Catholic. In addition the 1921 Census says the family was Roman Catholic.
This is probably where the match would occur on my Dicks DNA Tree:
I can see that I am getting into too much detail at this time, so I will try to give an overview of Joan’s standard clusters at Ancestry starting from the smaller clusters to the largest.
Joan’s Standard Cluster Summary
These will be based where available on the suggested common ancestors. Here are the first 8 clusters starting with the smallest on the bottom;
#CA means how many matches show potential common ancestors at Ancestry. Interestingly for Cluster 8, three had Rayner/Hopgood from 1849 and one had Hopgood Watson. That tells me that is likely a Hopgood rather than a Rayner Cluster.
Here, I have added some paternal/maternal coloring:
Here is the entire list:
I had thought the results would get more complicated as the number of matches went up. However, the largest cluster was a fairly recent one. I expect that is because there were some fairly large Ellis families. Under ThruLines, Joan has 44 matches under Ellis/Gorrill:
These matches are under 10 children of this Ellis couple.
I have a note under Burton/Lawrence. That is a pair of potential ancestors. I note that Esther was a match there. She was a half Aunt to Joan. On the half side that she doesn’t match Joan, there are extra Burton ancestors if I remember correctly. Joan’s paternal side was from Prince Edward Isle, so going back in time, there would be some intermarriage. Also on Joan’s maternal side, many were from Harbour Buffet. This was an isolated place with intermarriage.
Summary and Conclusions
- This was a survey of Joan’s larger matches. She has over 100, so the overall cluster did not show at Ancestry
- I perhaps made a mistake in getting into the ancestry on one of the proposed common ancestors. This takes a while and was not really needed for this overview.
- Perhaps because these were close matches, every cluster had suggested potential ancestors from Ancestry. There are actually more known common ancestors, but Ancestry only shows the ones that have trees and of those only those who have linked trees.
- 6 of Joan’s clusters were maternals and 9 were paternal. I am not really sure why this is not more even. My guess is that is due to there being more descendants that tested DNA on the paternal side.
- The cluster that I didn’t identify could be that there were multiple common ancestors around the same time.
- It would make sense to look at Aunt Esther’s clusters as she is a half Aunt. As a result she only matches on the Upshall side.