Families from Kent and Surrey.
The known surnames of persons in this group to 5th cousin level are; Stacey, Hall, Streatfield, Deane, Titchener, Titcomb, Mulcock, Meekhams & Moyer. The links to the descendant charts related to these matches are The Staceys, The Wansburys, The Lanes, The Meekhams, The Streatfields, and The Mulcocks & Titcheners.
The Stacey links older than William Stacey, who married Eleanor Streatfield, were problematic earlier in my research, and, before DNA, there were thought to be baptisms that showed a link to the Godstone area. Researchers of the Godstone Staceys at the time said it was not likely but a number of matches with other Stacey descendants suggests there are links to these Staceys of Godstone or nearby such as Bletchingley, Merstham and Burstow, of which there are many.
Apart from our descent from William & Eleanor through his son Richard and Ann Titchener we share a match to descendants of Richard's brother William, Peter R Aitken. This match is on 5 chromosomes and shows a number of other matches on DNA Painter to a number of other persons whose relationship is not resolved. The majority of these matches are on chromosome 3.
Another descendant from Richard's brother William is to Shane Fein; he is descended from John Stacey who emigrated to Maryborough, Queensland in 1882. Another match to this line has appeared and is to Marianne Stacey, the grand-daughter of Norman John Stacey who lived all his life in the Nrothery Territory and was well known as a drover, even having an obituary in the Northern Territory Times. This line was previously unknown, no other family members emigrated. This match is crucail to another strong link to a group of matches from a Stacey family in South Australia.
In the meantime other matches link back to Michael Stacey of Godstone but another examination of the records suggest that this Michael and our ancestor William may have come from Bletchingley next door to Godstone and have different parents. This link is from DNA matches to Richard Anthony Parrett, and Barbara A Sheppard, descendants of Michael Stacey. However these matches do show that Michael and William were brothers, with parents of William Stacey & Amy Roffey.
To go back to the Stacey family of Adelaide. DNA matches seemed to show that this family had connections to the Dorset side of the family. However a recent and close look at shared matches unsing the Pro Tools on Ancestry and painting the matches from MyHeritage and GEDmatch supported the origin as being Stacey and not a Dorset family. This match is in a paternal group on chromosome 11. There are another 20 matches at this place on the chromosome but none have bee confirmed as yet. For the purpose of this web site the suggested origin on the Adelaide Stacey line is John Stacey, said to be born in Putney, Surrey, but not confirmed, and to be a brother of William Stacey of Godstone.
The Streatfield links are discussed in the Wansbury group and is now confirmed by a number of matches.
Some surnames that have come up in searches among matches include Meekins, Ryder, Giles and Revere. The Meekins match at 19cM on 2 segments is quite significant but the tested person is Meekins by marriage so the link must be elsewhere. The match is with my children and nieces.
A Meekhams DNA match that came to light, to Adam Watson, who knows he is descended from Richard Meekhams, father of Fanny Meekhams who married William Titchener, my g-g-g-grandfather. This link has now been established with records and has led to exploration of a number of other descendants of Richard, compounded by the large number of variants to the name over time. A second match to Clive Meekham is also established and documented, since doing this work this record has been withdrawn from Ancestry! In November 2020 Ancestry suggested a number of ThruLine matches to other descendants of Richard Meekhams related to Adam Watson and he provided some screen shots of these which then disappeared. The suggested lines have been analysed with some success and a number of descendants, at least 9, of the siblings of Fanny Meekhams have been confirmed in spite of the the name variation. Names known to be used include Meekham, Meekcoms, Meekcomes, Meacomes.
Recently a link to Edward Titcomb & Mary Mulcock has been suggested because of a match beween MGJ and Patricia Anne Byrne, brother Peter Dermott Byrne & her sister Margaret Lovesey on MyHeritage on chromosome 15. This match is small but is in a much larger group of matches. This group took some sorting but is now on-line and include the two who are Margaret Hutchings from Victoria and Emma Gifford from Durham!
The maternal side of the family which has DNA sequences mapped 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 Paternal and 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 thier name in the Person Index on this site.
Revised April 2025.