The DNA results show a good range of matches to person with DNA tests on both Ancestry and MyHeritage.
The persons that share DNA sequences with one or more of the close family mapped on MyHeritage or GEDmatch can be seen on DNA Painter. This is Michael Jefferies' Profile and will open in a new window on your browser. You can expand, contract and look at individual matches as you like; the key at the side shows which of the matches are thought to be from the individual ancestral lines. You can also switch from all matches to Paternal or Maternal using the line at the bottom right under the coloured key. Persons with names between #....# are persons with known family links as well as DNA matches. These people will appear with a DNA symbol next to their name in the Person Index on this site.
The charts for this group of families is quite large and also shows some unresolved issues with the early members of the families because of their origins in a small area with intermarriage across several lines.
These families are Galton, Anstey, Grady, Lander, Corben, Chinchen and Nineham of Swanage.
The origin of the Galton family before Thomas Galton is currently unclear. There are DNA matches with family trees that suggest Galton but, so far, it has not been possible to pinpoint which of a mumber of galton families in villages in Dorset are the origin. There are also various spellings of Galton/Golton/Goulton. His wife, Susannah Pelley Anstey is much better established, The Anstey family goes back at least to the late 1600's and have DNA matches to Newfoundland families as well as English ones.
March 2025