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Author: tedcoade
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Sorry, I don't have much to report as I've been busy travelling and moving house (what a job).
First I should say that FTDNA have a special on and are selling DNA tests for $120 instead of $189 till end August - if there's anyone out there who still wants to give it a go.
Next - my West Country trip on the trail of the elusive Coad. In England after leaving my son, I stayed with Nigel Coad and his charming family for the evening in their lovely old manor house. We had a great old time wading through where we were up to with the Coads, and I took some copies of key wills, which have become our main source of information. I hope we'll have more opportunities to continue.
Instead of B&Bs, I bought deals off the online late booking sites and ended up in one lovely old mansion after another for about 70 pounds a single. The one at Mevagissey was particularly beautiful in every respect, sea birds crying along the clifftops.
In Cornwall I met up with Mike Coad who is carrying the flag for the Brannell Coad family, and in a quick afternoon foray to the CRO dug out a vital will that shows Anthony Coade had eight sons and was therefore the progenitor of most (but not all) of the Brannells.
The Brannells are the largest extant family of Cornish Coads but we have very few descendants in contact. Mike has taken a free Sorenson's DNA test so eventually we'll find out something about them at last (we still have no idea who Anthony and his likely brother Theophilus were). Mike is going to help us get hold of a number of other important old wills.
Then I met with the Coodes in one of the family manors in the middle of St Austell. The upkeep of these places has become expensive but now with power equipment, one gardener can do the work of six several generations ago. Our meeting was affable and constructive, and we agreed on the way forward in solving what has become known as the CODE/CODE/COODE riddle. I was interested to find that the names are homophones.
Finally I spent a not very useful morning in the West Country Studies, staying in the courtyard of Exeter Cathedral, before proceeding on to Tiverton. In a little packed room I found very little until I referred to the elderly curator, a little bent-over man with an encyclopaedic knowledge of his resources. He rapidly dug out a bunch of material from old books of church histories that proved that the Lyme Regis Coades (Eleanor Coade etc) were not directly from Axmouth/Axminster but from Tiverton - which mucks up my early Devon trees pretty badly.
All in all it was pretty successful - until I was hit by British roadkill in the form of an upset stomach from a roadside stop. Ironical - no problems in Africa, but sick in both Ireland and England from the food!
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Hello Ted;
Enjoyed your message abt. your Trip.
Wondered since in Cornwall, if you had come across any of the Wilton's???
There is a Coad that mar. into my line of Wilton in USA,
I couodn't get a E maio since Ancestry.Com controlls all.
Rootsweb is not like the some past times in getting messages and the e mails
for the poster's.
Hope that you do see this. Have a great trip and lots of luck in the Gene. area
etc. Take lots of pictures for sending later to us all.
Maxine & William Wilton
( descend from Prima to William b 1825/6 d 1906 Cornwall. Eng.
willma(a)sprynet.com
Joe
Good to meet up with you
How did you get on with the Coodes?
Nigel
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