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 Louise Simon's Profile and will open in a new window on your browser. Also you can access Nicholas Jefferies Profile and that, as expected, they share different DNA matches from those available from their parents. 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 Goughs of Brymbo
The first Gough in the family so far is Robert, 1778-1841, from Brymbo on the outskirts of Wrexham. His son, also Robert, 1821-1893, was his 5th child and the known ancestor of 6 known DNA matches to LS & NGJ. Robert the younger married Jane Davies, 1817-1882, in Wrexham but they moved to Hanley, Staffordshire before 1846 and stayed until moving back to Wrexham before 1881. All but one of the children were born in the Potteries. However these children moved out of the Potteries, many then moving to Yorkshre, particularly around Castleford and other coal mining towns in this coalfield. The families continued to move around, even back to Wrexham and so they often married persons from places the family had been previously too.
The closest match is to Carolyn Akers who is descended from Reese Gough & Clara Williams.
The families from Ruthin, Denbigh, Wales.
The maternal great-grandparents of Florence Mary Gough are families from Ruthin, Denbigh with the name of Jones. The first identified Jones is Robert Jones, 1811-1870 who was a slater & plasterer. He married Jane Jones and had 8 children. The associated tree is The Jones. This tree starts with Jane's father Hugh due to a match discussed below.
The number of matches to this family are large, over 90 are known but most do not have enough, or nil, information or trees to work out the relationships.
Matches to decendants of five of his children have been established so far as can be seen on the descendant chart.
His first son Robert, 1855-1918 has two descendants with matches so far. These descendants are in North Wales or close by.
His second son, Thomas, 1857-1927 married Jane Williams and has 9 descendants with matches to LS & NGJ including their great-grandmother Sarah Elizabeth Jones. Her sister, Lily Jones, has two tested descendants and has Lancashire origins.
Sarah's youngest sister, Alice May Jones, has at least 7 known descendants tested so far. Alice had a daughter, Winifred Jones, born in Castleford, Yorkshire, who has no registered father though her descendants in the US think this was an Arnold Summerfield. I have not seen evidence of that but they may have more information. Winifred married Harold Maddocks and they emigrated to Toronto and then Los Angeles in 1947. Her three daughters all have DNA tests.
Alice married Frederick Garton in May 1920, after her daughter Winifred was born and they had 3 children, all of which have DNA tests. One went to California, one to Ontario and one stayed in Lancashire!
A match to Robert's youngest son Hugh, is to Nigel Fletcher, a great-grandson. Nigel's wife is actively researching the family and is interested in looking at the founder Robert's other relationships. She reports a DNA match to a descendant of Robert's wife Jane Jones' sister Ruth, but no match to this person shows on matches to LS or NGJ as yet.
A match has come to light between NGJ and Janet Ruth Sheldon who is descended from Hugh Jones' daughter Harriet, sister of Jane who is the ancestor of all the others discussed here.
The Jones and Williams families are closely connected and research is particularly difficult due to the prevalence of those names in North Wales. The DNA matches may help direct attention to others in the future.
Revised April 2025.