Genealogist Valerie Henwood in England

Valerie Henwood sent me this note today: I would like to inform everyone interested that my website tangledwoodresearch in NOT up and running at the moment it is being redesigned and will be offline for a few months.

She's the genealogist of Henwood in England who has collected a lot of people on her tree and on other trees.

Her father is : Robin Douglas henwood, who just had his 93 birthday on 14 feb and he is doing well.  Isn't that a coincidence?  My son's birthday is on February 9th.  

Woodman Group: Haplogroup R1b

I just received the results of listing our Henwood with the Woodman Group in familytreedna. Our most distant relative here is Henry Henwood. I listed our line in the Woodman group in England to compare results with our first 12 alleles. Interesting results. Our Henwoods are a match with Hopwood, and a distance of 3 with Easterwood. It looks like a distance of 2 with Wood listed in this group.

I had wondered if the root surname "Wood" would show any connection and it does seem to be so. Perhaps branches tried to distinguish themselves by adding suffixes to their name.

John William Henwood born 1845

Nicholas Henwood born 1535
John William Henwood b 1845 in Cambridge Lane West Plymouth. he married Jane Perrett on 23rd July 1873 in New Plymouth New Zealand.

This is interesting as it's another Henwood who moved to New Zealand. He could be from the village of Henwood in Cornwall. I've heard of another going to New Zealand from there. Also, our Charles Henwood went to Australia and New Zealand but didn't remain there.

This came to me through another Henwood connection. I don't have him on my tree, but then you never know.

Another contact: My Henwoods come from SE Cornwall - the earliest being a Nicholas Henwood born in 1535 and who married at Menheniot in 1558. Any one who is interested in that branch please contact me.

David Henwood-from our Henwood Family Tree Henwood @ yahoo groups.

Henwood Contacts from Valerie Henwood

I "would like to say hello to all those researching Henwood in Hampshire I have been tracing my family name since 1968 and have, with the aid of original parish records and many visits to Hampshire archives have traced my line back to the early 1500s in the parishes of Medstead, Weild, Bentworth,and Shalden. I also have trees for several of the branchesI have supplied information to Nadine to help her back through her line in Weild and would be happy to help anyone with Henwood queries. I also have a Henwood data base to which I am continually adding information". from fmhenwood.

This is from Valerie Henwood, the genealogist of Henwood. To make contact, you can contact me right now. Her website will be down for a few months.

I hope this reaches others and we can find out more information about our Henwood branch in Hampshire, England.

Three New Ydna Matches

There are three new Ydna matches to our Henwood but they all have a distance of 1. They are not a 12 out of 12 allele match. I'm going to have to increase our test one of these days.
They do not have the surname of Henwood, which often hapens. They were all through ftdna from the Hampshire, England group. Our Henwood family is from Hampshire, England.

This makes 4 matches in all so far. The other person, posted on a previous blog, was from the Woodman group on ftdna.

Comparing 18th Egyptian Dynasty with Henwood DNA

I heard that King Tut was of the R1b1b2 haplogroup, and Henwood is almost a perfect Atlantic model of that haplogroup in a test of 12 alleles. I just saw an email with some information. King Tut was a member of the 18th Egyptian Dynasty of 1550-1292 BCE. That's a long time ago, over 3,000 years ago.



DYS 393 390 19 391 385a 385b 439 389-1 392 389-2


R1b1b2 13 23 14 11 11 14 12 13 13 29 our alleles



This looks like a difference of 4 already with only 10 alleles, but there sure are a lot of similarities considering this is comparing dna with someone very far back in time.

5/27/2010:
Others are questioning the validity of the results given to us. It was more likely that the Egyptian dynasty would have tested as R1a, J1 or J2 and not R1b1b2 which stems from Iberia. The others have been found in the delta region in Egypt.
5/29/2010
R1b1b2 has been in Egypt as long or possibly longer than it has been in Iberia.

Hampshire Population

From Katherine Hope Borges I have learned by studying her new chart that Hampshire County, where our Henwoods seemed to be from, in the southeast, was populated by the ancient Britons with the tribes of Belgae in the South and Atrebates in the North. This goes back to 43 BCE.

Then the Romans were in Hampshire from 43 ACE to 410 ACE. They were replaced by the Saxons.

The Normans took over the area in 410 ACE to 878ACE. England was conquered by them in 1066. Ireland was conquered by 1169, and finally Wales was taken over by 1282. Wikipedia tells us that the Normans were the people who gave their name to Normandy, a region in northern France. They were descended from Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of mostly Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock.

http://www.isogg.org/britishcodnasources.htm