Afternoon All,
Just to keep you updated concerning the number of Catley/Cattley trees that I have
"on the books" gathered from Listers information kindly supplied.
They stand currently at 42 and go across the range in sizes from large ones such as
William Catley of Kirton (the big Lincolnshire tree) down to some twiglets of just a
couple of generations but all stand alone at present.
Was convinced that when I started this exercise, we would be able to find the missing
information to join some of these together and this ambition was fuelled by confirmation
that of the thirteen tested so far, we have dna matches for eight of them. However,
instead of being able to "single down" the numbers, they have steadily risen.
The dna match areas fall rather predictably into the three main geographical Catley
"hotspots" namely Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and the Herts/Cambs/Essex triangle and
thus only go to confirm that which we always suspected but frustratingly in most cases a
common ancestor bridging trees together is well before parish records started (or rather
still survive) and so for example we know that William Catley of Kirton is dna connected
to Thomas Catley of Bottesford forming a Lincolnshire super tree but the records are just
not there to fuse them together with a parchment trail.
Regards
Tim
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