{"id":11615,"date":"2019-09-19T11:08:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T11:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/?p=11615"},"modified":"2019-09-19T11:08:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T11:08:45","slug":"upshall-dna-update-barry-from-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/2019\/09\/19\/upshall-dna-update-barry-from-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Upshall DNA Update: Barry From New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a previous Blog<\/a>, I looked at Mervyn’s DNA. He matched my wife’s family on the Newfoundland side where many Upshall’s lived. Upshall DNA and genealogy is a difficult subject. Many families intermarried in the small community of Harbour Buffett where many of these families lived.<\/p>\n

Esther’s Early Upshall ThruLines<\/h2>\n

Esther is my wife’s 1\/2 great Aunt. Here are her early Upshall ThruLines:<\/p>\n

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Here, the working theory is that Sarah Upshall (above left) was the daughter of John Upshall and that she was the single mother of Peter who moved to Newfoundland. This theory seems to be born out by the above ThruLines.<\/p>\n

I have also come up with my own tree that mixes ancestry and DNA:<\/p>\n

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This tree has George in the right columns as one of four children of John Upshall. Sarah is in the middle with many Newfoundland descendants. Interestingly, there is no overlap between Ancestry’s ThruLines and my chart.<\/p>\n

The John at the top of the chart was married to an Elizabeth Ellis. The ThruLines for Elizabeth give me one more line to look at:<\/p>\n

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All the ThruLines have a note that they want me to evaluate the lines. That sounds like a lot of work. The thing that I like about these early ThruLines is that they represent the family before they moved to Newfoundland, so there would be less intermarriage with these lines. That means that these lines should more likely have Upshall common ancestor rather than another name.<\/p>\n

Evaluating Esther’s Early Upshall ThruLines<\/h2>\n

The Upshall\/Carter Line<\/h3>\n

I’ll first look at the additional ThruLine that Elisabeth Ellis has. Barry shows a 19 cM match with Esther. Fortunately, Barry also has uploaded his DNA results to Gedmatch:<\/p>\n

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Before I look at Barry’s genealogy, I note that Martha also matches Esther at this location. Here is Esther’s Chromosome 12:<\/p>\n

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This is roughly the area where Barry matches Esther in red. If Barry also matches Martha, then we would have triangulation and indication of a common ancestor:<\/p>\n

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This shows that Esther, Barry and Martha triangulate. This gives me confidence that the Ancestry ThruLine between Barry and John Upshall is correct.<\/p>\n

Here is Martha’s tree. Ancestry has put green rectangles around common ancestors:<\/p>\n

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This shows that Esther and Martha also match twice on the Kirby\/Emberley lines. Barry has 28,000 people in his tree but no Kirby or Emberley. That means that the common ancestor for Esther, Martha and Barry should be Upshall\/Ellis.<\/p>\n

Barry’s Genealogy<\/h4>\n

I’ll do a quick tree for Barry to figure out who the private person is in the tree. I got back as far as Priscilla Carter and noticed an Ann Upshall in Barry’s tree:<\/p>\n

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This appears to be Ann’s birth record:<\/p>\n

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Here is Winterborne-Stickland, about 6 miles from Hazelbury Bryan:<\/p>\n

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Triangulating With Barry<\/h4>\n

Now we have a match by DNA, Triangulation and genealogy:<\/p>\n

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The people in the green boxes have their DNA at Gedmatch.<\/p>\n

DNA Painter<\/h4>\n

All that is left to do is to paint in these ancestors on Esther’s Chromosome 12:<\/p>\n

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This shows more precisely where Barry’s match is on Esther’s paternal side Chromosome 12. It appears that Joan’s sister Elaine and Martha have DNA from either John Upshall born 1739 or his wife Elisabeth Ellis.<\/p>\n

Summary and Conclusions<\/h2>\n