{"id":2005,"date":"2016-07-31T12:41:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T11:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:30:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:30:49","slug":"dna-helps-me-find-more-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/dna-helps-me-find-more-ancestors","title":{"rendered":"DNA Helps Me Find More Ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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St Andrew’s Church, Curry Rivel<\/p><\/div>\n

My latest breakthrough has come via DNA testing. For some time now I have known my 5 x great-grandmother was called Anne Twogood\/Toogood<\/a><\/strong>. She married my 5 x great-grandfather, Robert Weaver snr., in Curry Rivel, Somerset, in 1779 but I had nothing else to go on to go back further. There were no suitable baptisms in the village and I didn’t know when she was born.<\/p>\n

Then last week I received an email from a person matching my maternal aunt’s DNA and I immediately noticed the name, Toogood, in his tree. It turns out this person is descended from Anne’s brother, James Toogood, and so, through parish records, I was able to ascertain that my 6 x great-grandparents were Robert Toogood and Elizabeth Ostler<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Robert Toogood was baptized in nearby Aller and this is where he married Elizabeth. I went on to discover that Elizabeth’s family were from Curry Rivel and so my association with this village on this line dates back to at least the early 18th century when my 7 x great-grandparents, Edward Ostler and Mary Rich<\/a><\/strong>, married there in 1724 and had a total of eleven children. Sadly, many of them died as infants or children, two of them being buried within a week of each other.<\/p>\n

Because of the random nature of DNA inheritance, it’s interesting to note that my mum didn’t share any DNA with this match so, not surprisingly, neither did I. This is why it’s great to have other family members take a DNA test.<\/p>\n

[Update:<\/strong> since discovering the DNA match mentioned above, our family have matched to a number of others on the Ostler line.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My latest breakthrough has come via DNA testing. For some time now I have known my 5 x great-grandmother was called Anne Twogood\/Toogood. She married my 5 x great-grandfather, Robert Weaver snr., in Curry Rivel, Somerset, in 1779 but I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[87,88,85,86,18],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ancestors-corner","category-dna","tag-ostler","tag-rich","tag-toogood","tag-twogood","tag-weaver"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t