The 1911 census in Surrey used first name initials on the page I found a G Henwood. Surrey is a neighbor of Hampshire where I have found most Henwoods. The G could be for a George, Gerald. He had 4 males and 5 females in the family at Dahlia Cottage in Farnham, Surrey, England. The others were not listed, only the head of the family and type of structure. That's 9 people living in a cottage.
Resource: ancestry.com
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
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.
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.
Monday, December 20, 2010
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
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
Saturday, December 18, 2010
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
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
Sunday, July 25, 2010
529 Henwoods in Hampshire 1837-2006
I just checked out the website in the UK called findmypast at http://www.findmypast.co.uk/birth-indexes-search-start.action?submit=1&offset=200 and found 529 Henwoods in Hampshire County from 1837 to 2006. They are on pages of 50, so I ran off 5 pages. On the 5th page I found Charles Ernest Henwood listed. I already have his information from ancestry.com, but never have I seen a list of Henwoods like this.
If you want to view the given information you must pay 5 credits each.
I hope to discover Charles's brother Frederick on this listing. This gives middle names.
All other counties are there, of course. I just picked Hampshire because that's where the Henwoods seem to have originated from. I know that many others not on our tree come from Cornwall. I'm quite sure I don't have 529 Henwoods on our tree.
With help, I've been able to go back to the year 1538 in Hampshire finding John Henwood of Medstead, Hampshire, England and his wife, Ann.
If you want to view the given information you must pay 5 credits each.
I hope to discover Charles's brother Frederick on this listing. This gives middle names.
All other counties are there, of course. I just picked Hampshire because that's where the Henwoods seem to have originated from. I know that many others not on our tree come from Cornwall. I'm quite sure I don't have 529 Henwoods on our tree.
With help, I've been able to go back to the year 1538 in Hampshire finding John Henwood of Medstead, Hampshire, England and his wife, Ann.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Cornwall and the Village of Henwood in Cornwall, England
Response from David about the Henwood Village in Cornwall, England that I had heard about.
"Nadene,I've been there. We visited England in 1988 or 89 and went to Callington, where my grandfather was born and visited the small, small village of Henwood. No commercial establishments, just perhaps a dozen houses.Jim HenwoodOf Seattle, Wash. USA".
I've found out that Liskeard is also in Cornwall. Here's a message about it.
Hi All,
My name is Charles Henwood. I live in Tampa, Florida. My gr-gr-grandfather was William a farmer who lived at "Straceys" near Liskeard according to a letter my gr-grandfather wrote to him. His name was Charles Pooley Henwood. He had 3 brothers Richard, William and John and 2 sisters Ann and Lydia Hedges. Charles Pooley was a supervisor of the collection of inland revenue in Wellington where he is buried. All immigrated to the US except William who went to Australia.
I was just wondering if anyone knew of them. I have more info if anyone is interested.
C. Henwood
"Nadene,I've been there. We visited England in 1988 or 89 and went to Callington, where my grandfather was born and visited the small, small village of Henwood. No commercial establishments, just perhaps a dozen houses.Jim HenwoodOf Seattle, Wash. USA".
I've found out that Liskeard is also in Cornwall. Here's a message about it.
Hi All,
My name is Charles Henwood. I live in Tampa, Florida. My gr-gr-grandfather was William a farmer who lived at "Straceys" near Liskeard according to a letter my gr-grandfather wrote to him. His name was Charles Pooley Henwood. He had 3 brothers Richard, William and John and 2 sisters Ann and Lydia Hedges. Charles Pooley was a supervisor of the collection of inland revenue in Wellington where he is buried. All immigrated to the US except William who went to Australia.
I was just wondering if anyone knew of them. I have more info if anyone is interested.
C. Henwood
R1b Information
http://www.eupedia.com/europe/origins_haplogroups_europe.shtml#R1b
Go to this page, start with a map and read about the history.
The information says that this M269 line started 9,500 ybp in western Europe and is of Italo Celto Anatolean origins.
Go to this page, start with a map and read about the history.
The information says that this M269 line started 9,500 ybp in western Europe and is of Italo Celto Anatolean origins.
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