ROWBERRY ONS Started family history research in late 1976 Direct line in Bristol back to my 3 x great-grandfather George RUBERY Family story said that he came from Birmingham and was related to the RUBERYs who had founded the engineering firm Rubery, Owen & Co Despite extensive searching no link found – but a large family tree built up for them Shut that chain! The ROWBERRY ONS yDNA Project Polly Rubery © 2010

His death certificate showed he was a Chelsea Pensioner His Army records gave his date and place of birth – 1773 in Hereford He was baptised there in 1773 as a ROWBERRY Registered the ONS in 1981 Polly Rubery © 2010 Shut that chain! The ROWBERRY ONS yDNA Project

Visiting London to extract all the R GRO references took 20 years Completed (to date) in 1998 when FreeBMD began All BMD 1837 to 1983 uploaded BMD 1998 to 2008 collected as available Polly Rubery © 2010 Shut that chain! The ROWBERRY ONS yDNA Project

Using Excel to draw up family trees Polly Rubery © 2010 Shut that chain! The ROWBERRY ONS yDNA Project

ROWBERRY Tree Three Overview Note the different variants Polly Rubery © 2010 Shut that chain! The ROWBERRY ONS yDNA Project

The RONS Trees and their documented roots Polly Rubery © 2010

Births per tree: Total births from 1837 – 2008 Births from 1837 to Mar 1911 Births from Jun 1911 to 2008 (data sorted on this column, note that this is a good indication of relative tree size) Polly Rubery © 2010 Shut that chain! The ROWBERRY ONS yDNA Project

Marriages per tree: Total marriages from 1837 – 2008 Marriages from 1837 to Mar 1911 Marriages from Jun 1911 to 2008 (data sort in same tree order as previous slide, not much difference) Polly Rubery © 2010 Shut that chain! The ROWBERRY ONS yDNA Project

The ROWBERRY One-Name Study yDNA Project started in Nov 2006 Project website set up on the FTDNA website – note and link on home page of the RONS website RONS Family Gathering in April notification of the Project was sent with invitations to attend First test was taken by my first cousin Peter RUBERY (free kit) 11 tests so far, all by volunteers – 8 part paid, 2 paid kits Donations to Project General Fund very helpful BUT some very interesting results... Polly Rubery © 2010 Shut that chain! The ROWBERRY ONS yDNA Project

ROWBERRY ONS yDNA Results by tree 3 results – 1 per tree - no match to any other tree 5 results for r1 tree – 4 matches, 1 for suspected illegitimate line 2 results for row~gom tree AND 1 result for rowlug tree – all match Polly Rubery © 2010 Shut that chain! The ROWBERRY ONS yDNA Project

ROWBERRY Tree One extract to show relationship of tests Volunteers, but they “shut the chain” by resolving what were the “weakest links” on the documented tree Polly Rubery © 2010 Shut that chain! The ROWBERRY ONS yDNA Project

ROWBERRY Tree One The weakest link 1 Stephen’s descendants match those with an unbroken documentary chain Chain shut! Polly Rubery © 2010 Shut that chain! The ROWBERRY ONS yDNA Project

Polly Rubery © 2010 Shut that chain! The ROWBERRY ONS yDNA Project ROWBERRY Tree One The weakest link 2 Richard’s descendants match those with an unbroken documentary chain Chain shut!

Polly Rubery © 2010 Shut that chain! The ROWBERRY ONS yDNA Project ROWBERRY Tree One Documents indicate a possible illegitimate line yDNA indicates a broken chain (male line)

ROWBERRY Tree Five extract to show relationship of tests Volunteers, but they “shut the chain” by resolving the “weakest link” on the documented tree, and showed that there is another link still to be forged... Polly Rubery © 2010 Shut that chain! The ROWBERRY ONS yDNA Project

Polly Rubery © 2010 Shut that chain! The ROWBERRY ONS yDNA Project ROWBERRY Tree Five - The weakest link George’s descendants match those with an unbroken documentary chain Chain shut!

Polly Rubery © 2010 Shut that chain! The ROWBERRY ONS yDNA Project ROWBERRY Tree Five – link not made John’s descendants match those with an unbroken documentary chain Shut that chain!

Polly Rubery © 2010 This PowerPoint Presentation was produced February 2010 for the Guild of One-Name Studies Seminar “DNA Developments” held on 20 th February 2010 at National Star College, Ullenwood, Cheltenham If you have any queries or comments they will be welcomed by Polly Rubery who can be contacted at: Shut that chain! The ROWBERRY ONS yDNA Project