rowberry ons started family history research in late 1976 direct line in bristol back to my 3 x...
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ROWBERRY ONSStarted family history research in late 1976
Direct line in Bristol back to my 3 x great-grandfather George RUBERY
Family story said that he came from Birmingham and was related to the RUBERYs who had founded the engineering firm Rubery, Owen & Co
Despite extensive searching no link found – but a large family tree built up for them
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His death certificate showed he was a Chelsea Pensioner
His Army records gave his date and place of birth – 1773 in Hereford
He was baptised there in 1773 as a ROWBERRY
Registered the ONS in 1981Polly Rubery © 2010
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Visiting London to extract all the R GRO references took 20 years
Completed (to date) in 1998 when FreeBMD began
All BMD 1837 to 1983 uploaded
BMD 1998 to 2008 collected as available
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Using Excel to draw up family trees
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ROWBERRY Tree Three Overview
Note the different variants
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The RONS Trees and their documented
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Births per tree:
Total births from 1837 – 2008
Births from 1837 to Mar 1911
Births from Jun 1911 to 2008
(data sorted on this column, note that this is a good indication of relative tree size)
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Marriages per tree:
Total marriages from 1837 – 2008
Marriages from 1837 to Mar 1911
Marriages from Jun 1911 to 2008
(data sort in same tree order as previous slide, not much difference)
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The ROWBERRY One-Name Study yDNA Project started in Nov 2006
Project website set up on the FTDNA website – note and link on home page of the RONS website
RONS Family Gathering in April 2008 - notification of the Project was sent with invitations to attend
First test was taken by my first cousin Peter RUBERY (free kit)
11 tests so far, all by volunteers – 8 part paid, 2 paid kits
Donations to Project General Fund very helpful
BUT some very interesting results...Polly Rubery © 2010
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ROWBERRY ONS yDNA Results by tree
3 results – 1 per tree - no match to any other tree
5 results for r1 tree – 4 matches, 1 for suspected illegitimate line
2 results for row~gom tree AND 1 result for rowlug tree – all match
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ROWBERRY Tree One extract to show relationship of tests
Volunteers, but they “shut the chain” by resolving what were the “weakest links” on the documented tree
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ROWBERRY Tree One
The weakest link 1
Stephen’s descendants match those with an unbroken documentary chain
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ROWBERRY Tree One
The weakest link 2
Richard’s descendants match those with an unbroken documentary chain
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ROWBERRY Tree One
Documents indicate a possible illegitimate line
yDNA indicates a broken chain (male line)
ROWBERRY Tree Five extract to show relationship of tests
Volunteers, but they “shut the chain” by resolving the “weakest link” on the documented tree, and showed that there is another link still to be forged...
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ROWBERRY Tree Five - The weakest link
George’s descendants match those with an unbroken documentary chain
Chain shut!
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ROWBERRY Tree Five – link not made
John’s descendants match those with an unbroken documentary chain
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This PowerPoint Presentation was produced February 2010 for the Guild of
One-Name Studies Seminar “DNA Developments” held on 20th February 2010 at National Star College, Ullenwood,
Cheltenham
If you have any queries or comments they will be welcomed by Polly Rubery who can
be contacted at:
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