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all these aspects of DNA are challenging. However the James J Smith in my tree is the only English ancestor. All the other lines are German, French, Scottish and Irish and have been researched thoroughly. Ancestry designates these Smith matches as Paternal - although I don't know how they do...

very interesting to learn about this. I assume similar regulations applied to the prisoners in London and other parts of England. . I have found an 1851 census for a Joseph Smith - no known relationship to my James J Smith at this point. Joseph was an inmate at a House of Correction at St Mary...

Thank you. I am new to this forum and try to follow rules.

Just saw that this thread is to be closed - don't understand why.

Yes I am referring to James John Smith. I have no information about a ship but a family story which may not be based on any facts and only made up to amuse children was that James Anderson "jumped a silk ship and married Susie Anderson" According to the 1851 census of New Brunswick, he arrived...

Am interested in this quote - Where there were no relatives and the person concerned consented, the aid societies could organise emigration for the discharged prisoner. Would such a thing have existed in 1840?

Thanks for your reply. I have already investigated this person and found a death notice for him in the Birmingham Journal - he died March 28 1840. so I know this was not the ancestor I was seeking. The notice named his father and the street they lived on which matched the address in the 1841...

great grandfather was JAMES JOHN SMITH, born about 1810 in England, but we have no clue as to where in England. He emigrated to New Brunswick Canada in 1843. At that time he was unmarried, and his occupation was a shoemaker. I assume he learned his trade in England, as he was recorded in the...