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<\/a><\/p>\nAnita and Jon are shown as 6th cousins. This is as far out as these Ancestry connections go.<\/p>\n
Shared Matches<\/h3>\n
Next, I like to check shared matches:<\/p>\n
Dawn is a shared match. She also has a Hathaway common ancestor as Harvey Bradford married Wealthy Hathaway. This is what one genetic genealogist called walking back.<\/p>\n Here is the Meribah Hathaway Line from my Hathaway DNA Tree:<\/p>\n This gets a little confusing becuase Holly, MM, and Eric are also 2nd cousins on my Hartley side. Even more confusing, if I go back far enough we are again related on the Jenney side.<\/p>\n John Jenney is my 10th great-grandfather and I think that this couple would be another distant pair of common ancestors.<\/p>\n Here is Anita’s tree at Ancestry:<\/p>\n According to Ancestry, I should look at the Morse to Shaw Line. I can create a floating tree for Anita and then connect it to my tree assuming the genealogy looks good.<\/p>\n Anita already has found her dad in the 1920 Census:<\/p>\n I Foster L’s father was a farm laborer in 1920 and the family lived in Acushnet. Here is Wing Road, Acushnet, though Wing may have gone further down where Hathaway is now:<\/p>\n It would make sense to find a wedding record to confirm Anna’s maiden name.<\/p>\n The couple get married in Rochester, MA in 1913 even though they live in Marion, MA.<\/p>\n Anna is born in North Carver.<\/p>\n Marion has a record of the marriage also, so perhaps the marriage did take place in Marion:<\/p>\n Annie was born in 1890 in Carver:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Annie’s mother was born in Mattapoisett:<\/p>\n Betsey Nye marries in Carver in 1890:<\/p>\n The marriage is said to be the first, but the fact that Betsey’s maiden name is given tells me otherwise:<\/p>\n Here is Betsey’s death record:<\/p>\n This information from findagrave.com seems to clarify thing:<\/p>\n Aged 49 yrs. 9 mos. & 21 d’s<\/em><\/p>\n 1st married to Manuel Gonsalves on Aug. 23, 1881 in Mattapoisett, MA.<\/em> Here is what I have starting with Anita’s grandmother:<\/p>\n Another confusing point is that I am looking for the Hathaway line and Mary J Nye was a Hathaway. She was the daughter of Betsy Hathaway:<\/p>\n Mary did not name a father on the marriage record in Mattapoisett in 1857. Joseph Nye was listed as a mariner at the time of marriage. This is the page for Hathaway births in Rochester:<\/p>\n I wonder who Betsey’s parents were and what happened to her?<\/p>\n Mary Jane’s death record gives little information:<\/p>\n As far as I know, I am not as closely related to the Mattapoisett Hathaways. My Hathaways lived in Wareham.<\/p>\n This would connect my floating tree to my Ancestry Tree. Here is Joseph’s birth:<\/p>\n Here is Anne Jenney from my Tree:<\/p>\n I am pretty sure it is OK to connect the two, but I will look for some more evidence. This 1872 death record for Mattapoisett is enough to convince me:<\/p>\n Here is my Ancestry Tree in vertical view:<\/p>\n According to this view, Mary Jane has her first child when she was 17:<\/p>\n Technically, Mary Jane was 16 when she married:<\/p>\n Here is part of my Hathaway DNA Tree showing that Anita and I are 6th cousins:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nJon’s ThruLines<\/h3>\n
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\n2nd married to Ezra Shaw [son of Samuel Shaw and Fanny Borden] on Sept. 21, 1890 in Middleboro, MA. He died Aug. 15, 1893 in Carver, MA.<\/em>
\n3rd married to Francis L. Nye on Sept. 9, 1899 in Mattapoisett, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nConnecting Joseph Nye to Mother Anne Jenney<\/h4>\n
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