Hacienda Circle: Heading for Hillmorton -- the plan

17 June 2010

Heading for Hillmorton -- the plan

We'll be meeting on 4th of July in Hillmorton, which was a village but is now part of Rugby, Warwickshire, England. "We" are whoever of the descendants of James Walton and Sarah Favel Atkin want and can come. We'll share a midday meal at Badseys Bistro http://www.badseys.co.uk/ which has a menu to please even the most foodie Northern Californian. The Bistro sits right by the Oxford Canal at the Hillmorton locks. The Vicarage of St. John the Baptist, a mid 13th century church, is a few humdred feet across the canal. And that is where Annie Walton and her five silblings were born and raised.

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Natalie ThieleJune 19, 2010 at 5:42 PM
How fun! Have a great trip.
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TCasteelOctober 27, 2010 at 10:10 AM
This sounds like a wonderful excursion. Enjoy.
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Note to Gilberts

All the ancestors posted on this blog belong to us all. Hacienda Circle lives. It is a place of our present with Jack & Roxanne there now, and it is a window into our past.

We are true American mutts -- a mixture from England, France, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, and Germany.

Our DNA will, no doubt, reveal more counties of origin. I'll be adding information about this as I gather and understand it. but we already have two 37 marker matches (one with a Frank M. Cresap -- no surprise there!).

1. Thank you, Jack, for doing our Gilbert DNA.

2. Thank you, Karen (Cresap) Bach, for having your late father, Andrew Bruce Cresap, Jr., do our Cresap DNA.

3. Thank you, Maurice Walton, for doing our Walton DNA (via Granwilla's maternal grandfather, James Walton's line).

4. I did our mitochondrial DNA back through Mom, Pi, and our direct female line back. This line is also included in a family finder project at https://www.familytreedna.com/. This works by comparing our autosomal DNA to that of other people who have taken the test through FamilyTree. Our relationship with a match is calculated based on sharing linked segments of DNA. Although any two people from the same population may have some of their DNA in common, as a matching segment of DNA becomes longer and we share more segments, it becomes more likely that the sharing is due to a recent common ancestor than a chance match. Thus far we have five people who we are probably 4th cousins with, but we haven't figured out the exact connection.

Happy ancestoring!