How Many English Ancestors?

1066 is the time of the Norman Conquest. There were 1.11 million people living in England at that time. People living in England today can find ancestors in 86% of them.

1215 found 2.5 million people living in England. Today's English population can find ancestors from 1300's English population.

Go back 10 generations or 250 years to the year 1760 AD and you should have 1,024 ancestors!
What you have done is that you have 2 parents making 4 grandparents, and the number keeps doubling.

This all proves that people were marrying their cousins because the tree gets smaller the more you go back in history. We are cousins with just about everyone. The reason is that if you go back 30 generations or 750 years to the year 1260 AD, you would have 4,356,616 ancestors and that's more than the population at that time, even if everyone were marrying 2nd cousins. So there has been a lot of inbreeding among families in the past. We knew that Egyptian royalty practiced this, and the Bible shows that our forefathers were marrying cousins then, but I hadn't realized it went on in later history.

I'm lucky to have found a great genealogist living in England who has taken our shared family tree line back to John Henwood born in 1538 in Medstead, Hampshire, England. Most every male on the tree has come from Hampshire. Another line of Henwoods come from Cornwall from the village, Henwood. We went back 13 generations or rather 13 male fathers to get there. I went from Charles, Charles, Henry, Henry, John, John, John, Robert, William, William, William, Guy, and then John. I'm skipping the 3 live Henwoods in the count, which would really make 16 generations.

Resource: family tree magazine March 2011 page 10 Fuzzy Math.

DNA Report on R1b1b2

If you have had your dna tested and are in R1b1b2, here is the latest report. Vincent tells more in depth research for deep clade testing, etc. in his full report on ISOGG.

The basic story of R1b1b2 hasn't changed since our last update: I still estimate this haplogroup to be about 5-6,000 years old, to have an origin somewhere in SW Asia, and to have spread into Europe from there. from Vincent Vizachero, leader in dna group R1b1b2.

There are more Henwoods than I had ever realized. Two places seem to be the origin that I have found in the UK; Cornwall and Hampshire. Both are fairly close to each other. Cornwall is the home of the village, Henwood. DNA testing would certainly help to find relationships, especially when paper evidence is lacking.

Resource: http://www.eupedia.com/europe/origins_haplogroups_europe.shtml#R1b

Henwood Family With Cornwall Origins

Cornwall is the part of England where the village of Henwood lies. I have not been able to find any connection to Cornwall, having our ancestors coming from Hampshire, England. Both Cornwall and Hampshire are in Southern England and on the English Channel that leads to the Atlantic Ocean. It's always possible that the origin of Henwood was Cornwall and that people migrated to other parts of England.

I have found a family from Cornwall that immigrated to Ohio.

1Joseph T. Henwood b: 1862 in St. Ives, Cornwall England.
m: Mary E. Mann
2. Charles Arthur Henwood b:
m: Anne Gad
3. Charles Arthur Henwood Jr. b:April 1, 1893 Smethick, Staffordshire, England, d: Sept 3, 1975 Lancaster, Ohio
m. Kathleen Lethbridge
4. Alfred Norman Henwood b: April 21, 1918 d: March 24, 1988
5. Douglas Edward Henwood b: Dec 19, 1949 d: May 14, 2008 Lancaster, Ohio .
Douglas may be the author of a book about Wall Street which is about financial markets.
While searching the author of the book, I found 13 different Doug Henwoods.

Research: ancestry.com , google