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OUR WILTSHIRE FAMILY AND COUNTY CONNECTION
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I decided in early 2005, that it would be a good idea to have my DNA taken as a reference point
for the future of geneology in our branch of the Townsend family.
I had the 37 marker test performed
by FamilyTreeDNA. The cost was just over $200 U.S. and the results would be kept in their database for
about 30 years.
I gave permision for the results to be compared to all the other DNA results that
they have in their database, I also submitted the results to Ybase another database organisation, again
for comparison with other DNA records.
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Little did I realise that just a few short months after getting my results, that a situation would
arise for a comparison with my DNA test. How did this happen?
We spent two years trying
to find Elizabeth and John Townsend in vain as the parents of George Townsend, so we decided to take
another look at Ann Townsend. I had seen the LDS film of the church record where the Vicar of the day
had recorded in the church register that the father of George Townsend was reputed to be Richard Wiltshire.
Well by a stroke of luck I had made contact with a Martin Wiltshire about a year earlier
when he came on to the Rootsweb Wiltshire site asking questions about Wiltshire family members in Bremhill.
I sent him an email kidding that a ancestor had been involved with my ggggGrandmother. We kept in touch
and one day he sent me his family tree and there large as life was a Richard Wiltshire, who was the right
age, in the right place, at the right time. After some discussion he graciously agreed to have his DNA
checked againt mine.
Approximately six weeks later we received the results and Bingo we had
a match with one slight difference in only one of 37 genetic markers. Ironically Desmond Townsend
many years ealier had actually contacted a member of the Wiltshire family to ask he Ann and Richard had
ever married but did not pursue it.
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Martin Wiltshire now has taken the DNA test results to a new level. Martin who has real passion for
history has produced an excellent study of the Wiltshire county and family name in the Calne area as
titled below.. He has also taken in depth look at our haplogroup origins which was included in the
DNA test results.
This is a 24 page document, if you would like to receive a PDF copy please
contact me at petert@magma.ca its a large file [4.5meg] so be patient if it takes a while to download.
Wiltshire name and the family by that name
the Calne area.
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