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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 genealogy 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 [Peter Marlow and and PeterTownsend]
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 if 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 in the Calne area.
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1.The historical origins ot the name Wiltshire
Page 3.....Germanic Origins
Page
3.....Saxon Shore
Page 4.....Tribal Conflict
Page 5.....Saxon Dawn
Page 6.....Weat
Saxons
Pagr 7.....British Stock
Page 8.....Identity
Page 9.....Pre-Roman Comparison
to Post
Roman Tribes [maps]
Page 9.....Wessex, the Danes
and the
Kingdom of England
Page 10.....Social Analysis
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2. The Wiltshire family in the Calne area
Page 13.....DNA Analysis
Page 14.....Haplotree for Martin Wiltdhire [diagram]
Page 14.....DYS values for Martin Wiltshire [table]
Page 15.....The Journey
Page 17.....The Name
Page 18.....Hypothetical
Roots
Page 19.....Unsubstantiated Records
Page 20.....Substantiated Records [1683-1765]
Page 21.....Known History [1765-present]
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