When I look at my father’s late cousin Jim, I see he has a Theory at MyHeritage going back to Churchill:
One flaw that I see’d is that Brian’s line has two ancestors that are labelled as ‘deleted profile’.
I updated my Churchill ThruLines in 2023:
My Line starts with two Stepen Churchills.
Jim’s sister Joyce is at Ancestry and has these ThruLines through the younger Stephen:
I notice the line ending in Ashley also has Shurtleff in the Line.
A Floating Tree for Brian
I would like to create a floating tree for Brian to see if it matches up to Stephen Churchill. Brian has this tree at MyHeritage:
This tree at Ancestry seems to have the right parents for Brian:
Here is the family in 1920, in Middleborough, MA:
Ruth’s mother is Jennie and she is the one I would like to look at next.
Here is the marriage of Chester and Jennie in 1904 in Middleborough:
The parents:
It looks like, from the Theory, that I was to go to the mother next or Elinor Harlow. Here is a Tree from Ancestry:
Here we see the Churchill name.
Here is a book reference found at Ancestry:
Eleanor or Nellie’s parents are listed on her death record:
Here is a stone for Otis in New Bedford:
Here is the tree so far:
The famiy in 1850 in New Bedford:
I am hoping that by substantiating this MyHeritage match, I can match the shared DNA between Brian and Jim onto Jim’s DNA profile. Hey, it looks like I already have Brian on my father’s cousin’s Profile:
I see I included Brian in a Blog I wrote in 2021. The Theory was better then:
It included Hannah and Otis Harlow. In that 2021 Blog, I was just adding DNA to Jim’s profile without checking the genealogy.
Otis to Hannah
Next I just need to connect Otis Harlow to Hannah Churchill. Here is a second marriage of Otis in New Bedford:
Otis is 59.
Otis’ parents are listed as Lewis and Hannah.
Otis’ death record may be misleading:
The parents appear to be Jonathan and Mary.
Here is a clue in 1884:
Hannah Harlow Goodwin dies in Plymouth at age 87. Her parents:
Hopefully, there was just one Lewis and Hannah Harlow couple in Plymouth at this time:
Here is some old-time writing.
I feel that this is enough to connect the Hannah Churchill in my tree to Brian’s Hannnah. Just to really be sure, this is from the book called The Churchill Family in America:
This is interesting because it has my family above who are Lucy Churchill, Samuel Bradford and Harvey Bradford who married Wealthy Hathaway. What would have been helpful would be if this had listed Otis Harlow. I would say that Otis could have been named for his Uncle Otis who did not marry.
Adding to the Churchill DNA Tree
This shows Brian to be Jim’s 5th cousin. So while Brian was not new, he is now verified by genealogy and added to my Ancestry Tree.
Back to Joyce’s ThruLine with Ashley
This should be easy, if it is right as the ThruLine already has Eleanor Churhill Hartow. However, note that Joyce matches Ashley by more DNA than she should. Joyce also likely connects to Ashley on another line that I am not relatd to Ashley on:
That is alright as I can ignore this relationship for my purposes.
Adding Ashley to My Tree
Eleanor’s paternal side tree goes back to Eleanor Churchill Harlow:
I was a little confused at first as there are two James Shurtleffs in Ashley’s tree. Here is Ashley’s grandfather on Highland Street in Middleborough in 1920:
Here is the Shurtleff family going back to 1880:
This should have shown James F as widowed, not single. This is where the two Shurtleff lines diverge with Alfred H and Jennie. Next, I have to merge the duplicates I have of Alfred, Jennie and James Shurtleff and I can add a line to my Churchill DNA Tree:
Joyce and Ashley share 4 DNA segments:
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So that is enough for Ashley and Joyce to share DNA on more than one line.
Summary and Conclusions
- I was able to check the genealogy of two DNA matches. These matches purported to go back to John Churchill and Hannah Barnes during the colonial period of Plymouth, Massachusetts
- The genealogy of these two lines checked out.
- I found that for one of the matches, I had already mapped the DNA to my father’s late cousin, but I had not checked out the genealogy apparently.