Our R1b1b2 Haplogroup (M-269) Atlantic Model

This haplogroup is one allele away from being the Atlantic Model. It's beginnings go back 4,000 to 8,000 years ago in SW Asia and it spread into Western Europe. The Atlantic Modal Haplotype, or AMH, is the most common STR haplotype in haplogroup R1b1b2a1a. Since I have just gone for a test of 12 alleles I don't know what else our group would be called.

The Henwood line I have found goes back to the 1500's in Hampshire, England. That's Western Europe. I don't know when they entered there from SW Asia, but 4,000 years ago would be about 2,000 BCE. At that they've been in England forever, it seems. It would be interesting to check out the history of England at that point in time knowing this. Were others in England?

This information came from ISOGG's latest 2010 Y-DNA Haplogroup R information.

The FTDNA Woodman DNA Project

I joined the Woodman DNA Project at familytreedna. If you have a surname with Wood in it, you can join. I just saw some new results and there was one person who matched perfectly with all 12 alleles, and his name was G.S. Hopwood. I'll have to follow up and try to contact that person.

Life in England 1620

The majority of people living in England in the 1620's were very poor. The monarch, Queen Elizabeth I and James I, wanted to maintain the Church of England as the only permissible religion. Anyone suspected of religious deviance was imprisoned, threatened, fined, sometimes tortured and even hanged. Therefore, the ones who came over sought to escape religious persecution and wanted to worship in the manner they believed to be the "proper Christian way." Children were put to work by the time they were age 6 or 7. They were expected to do as they're told. Complete and unquestioning obedience was the rule. Sunday was a day of rest and religion. Church services began at 8 in the morning and lasted until noon. Services resumed around 2 p.m. and continued until 5 p.m. or 6p.m.

Henwood Hamlet in Cornwall

David gives me new information about the community of Henwood in Cornwall that I've been calling a village.

What came first - the place name HENWOOD or the surname HENWOOD? I don't know. Also strictly HENWOOD is a hamlet not a village. There is no Church there - it is in the parish of Linkinhorne so baptisms, marriages and funerals take place there. My branch of HENWOOD moved to Linkinhorne circa 1815 and a cousin still lives there now. Have you any knowledge of how long the place has been there? In its "heyday" - mid/late 1800's it would have been home to miners.

Perhaps some other researchers can answer this question.

David

Australian Steve Henwood

Another Steve Henwood living in Australia contacted our Stephen Wesley Henwood and said he had visited this village of Henwood in Cornwall . His relatives were miners and coach painters there. They immigrated to Australia in the 1850's and kept up coach painting and later joined railways. He lives with his wife and 2 kids in the town of McLaren Vale, south of the city of Adelaide in South Australia. His is employed as an aircraft engineer for Qantas.

What made me wonder is that our Steve's grandfather, Charles Ernest Henwood, had lived in Australia and in fact set a record with his motorcycle by riding from one end of Australia to the other. Hopefully it might be in their newspaper archives and someone can find it. It has been the talk in this family.

WWI Charles Henwood, Soldier

My father in law was Charles Ernest Henwood b: 1896 Winchfield, Hartley Wintney Row, County of Hampshire, England, who served in the British WWI army at a very young age because he had become an orphan when a teenager. He was on the census of 1901 in Surrey. I haven't found any records for him as yet but just found a Charles Francis Henwood who was born in Kew, Surrey, who enlisted in WWI (1914-1920) at the age of 18. He was in the RH, RFA. Now why can't I find Charles Ernest?

Henwoods Married, Born in Kingsclere, Hampshire, England

Thomas Henwood married on 3 February 1610 to Dorathe Wesoon in Kingsclere, Hampshire, England.

Richard Henwood married on 26 February 1608 to Mary Wellman in Kingsclere, Hampshire, also.

John Henwood married on 23 April 1629 to Mary Martin in Kingsclere, Hampshire.

Dunant Hynwode had a son, Wylim Hynwode who was baptised on 13 July 1573 in Kingsclere, Hampshire, England.

Then John Hynwode had a daughter, Dorathie Hynwode who was baptised on 9 December 1573 in Kingsclere, Hampshire, England.



Kingsclere is a large village and civil parish in the county of Hampshire, England. Kingsclere is located near to Watership Down, the setting of Richard Adams' 1972 novel Watership Down.

Reference: Wikipedia