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<\/a><\/p>\nJessica shows to match on my mother’s side. Ancestry has already figured out that Jessica and I have a common ancestor:<\/p>\n
Ancestry would like me to evaluate Jessica’s tree. The Docrill threw me off a bit, as I have a Maria Baxter Nicholson in my tree:<\/p>\n I also had that Maria died in 1866. I wonder where I found that. Perhaps I got the wrong person:<\/p>\n In 1861, I have that Maria Baxter Nicholson was living in Liverpool with her grandmother Ann Ellis:<\/p>\n This is why I like Census records so much. They tell quite a story. Here we have three generations of Nicholsons. From a previous Blog, I have that Ann Baxter is Ann Ellis who is the daughter of the elder Ann Roebuck Ellis listed in the Census:<\/p>\n I see this record online:<\/p>\n One reason this marriage to George Dockrill makes sense is that the Dockrill name is carried down in the US in Walter Nicholson’s Line:<\/p>\n This name must have been given in this family to rememer the Nicholson sister Maria who stayed in England. Assuming we have this right, Walter would have been a younger brother of Maria Baxter Nicholson. He named his son George Dockrell or Dockrill Nicholson.<\/p>\n As it was not easy to find a marriage record between Maria Baxter Nicholson and George Nehemiah Dockrill, let’s look at some more DNA matches. Jessica matches my mother at 128 cM:<\/p>\n That is a substantial match. That means that I need to erase the early death record I had for Maria Nicholson. I’ll also add Jessica to my Nicholson DNA match Tree:<\/p>\n Jessica is in the first column.<\/p>\n I can look at DNA matches that are shared between Jessica and my Mom. I see an interesting shared DNA match with Michelle and my Mom. They share 59 cM across three segments. Here is Michelle’s tree on her paternal side:<\/p>\n My attention is drawn to Michelle’s ancestor Francis Nicholson. When I search Ancestry for Francis, I find this record in someone’s tree:<\/p>\n My web page on the Nicholsons has a Henry here:<\/p>\n There is also a Matthew Henry on my web page, but this one makes more sense as Henry is the older brother of William who is my 2nd great grandfather. The tree above has this Henry born 1831 and I have him born 1822, so that is a bit of a discrepancy. The tree above has Henry married to Ann Bainbridge. I have Matthew Henry married to Mary Ann Bailey.<\/p>\n Here is Matthew Henry and Mary Ann Bailey in 1861:<\/p>\n Matthew Henry was a boss of some type and his sister-in-law was the housemaid. It looks like he had an adopted daughter Mary. That seems to rule out Matthew Henry as Michelle’s direct ancestor.<\/p>\n Here is Henry and family in 1861:<\/p>\n Here we still have the age discrepancy. If Henry was 29 in 1861, then that is where the later birth of 1832 must come from. I believe that this is the same Henry in 1841:<\/p>\n Concerning Henry’s age:<\/p>\n The\u00a0census<\/b>\u00a0takers were instructed to give the exact\u00a0ages<\/b>\u00a0of children but to round the\u00a0ages<\/b>\u00a0of those older than 15 down to a lower multiple of 5. For example, a 59-year-old person would be listed as 55.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n That means that Henry would have actually been around 18 in 1841. Henry’s father Matthew had died the year before in 1840. In 1841 Henry was a cutler and in 1861, he was a table knife [hafter?].<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nMore DNA Matches for Jessica<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nAnother DNA Match with Michelle<\/h2>\n
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