This week, I was looking at my maternal line back to Ada Jones and Joseph Booth. My 2x great-grandmother was the original Ada in our family. She and Joseph Booth had eight children. Joseph was a carriage maker on Staten Island, Richmond County, New York.
When I see matches on this maternal side, I imagine a good percentage will come from these eight children. My brother, sisters, and I only had three first Cousins and only three second Cousins on our maternal side. We never met any of these second cousins because we lived on the West Coast, and they lived on the East Coast. We knew our first cousins fairly well from summer visits to “The Ranch” in Davis. Stepping back to our third cousins on this line, I find 19. Through genealogical research, I have discovered many of them. Some have found me through my postings here. I followed the lines from Joseph and Ada (Jones) Booth to the others.
Genealogical Background
- George M. Booth born about 1860 he was married to Abbie King. he died 25 December 1885. With no known children.
- Walter Langley Booth was born in 1862. He married Anna Denkler and had one son. Walter died in 1959.
- William R. Booth was born in 1865. He married Mary Anna Corbett and had two sons. William died in 1942.
- Ada Jane Booth was born in 1867. She married Charles R. Heap and had three children. Ada died in 1929.
- Isaac Sylvatus Booth was born in 1870. He married Wilhelmina Simpson, and they had four children. Isaac died in 1949.
- Harriett W. Booth was born in 1872. Harriett was married twice; her first husband was Armstrong, and her second husband was Eugene Parker, who died in 1923. Harriett also died in 1923. Harriett had no known children.
- Charles L. Booth was born in 1875. He married Elsie Maass, and they had three children. Charles died in 1928.
- Emma L. Booth was born in 1880. She married Joseph A. Sullivan and had a daughter. Emma died in 1967.
My great-grandmother had eleven first cousins. Most of them lived on Staten Island or just a ferry boat ride away. Joseph Booth had eight siblings, while Ada Jones had only three known siblings who survived to adulthood. Holidays must have been a rather large family gathering. I would love to have a family photo of a typical holiday dinner at the Joseph Booth home on Staten Island. With Ada Jones cooking, it would most likely have been a very British holiday feast. Maybe a goose would be the main course, and I suspect Yorkshire Pudding would have been included.
DNA
To find matches to Joseph and Ada (Jones) Booth, we need to know what Surnames we need to be looking for, so let’s make a list of surnames that are in each generation. Starting with the most recent ancestoral couple we want to find DNA matches with will be generation one and working forward in time to today’s descendants:
- Generation one
- Booth
- Jones
- Generation two
- Booth
- Heap
- Parker
- Armstrong
- Sullivan
- Generation three
- Booth
- Heap
- Dougherty
- Bush
- Smith
- Anderson
- Generation four
- Booth
- Putnam
- Dougherty
- Bush
- Anderson
- Shreckhise
- Flynn
- DeBrauwere
- Generation five
- Booth
- Putnam
- Lancaster
- Harris
- Dougherty
- Bush
- Garland
- Ross
- Shreckhise
- Anderson
- Shears
- Frame
- Flynn
- DeBrauwere
Some names disappear when there are no known children in the next generation. With Ancestry ThruLines®, I can place six matches on this descendant’s chart for Joseph and Ada (Jones) Booth. It would be helpful if Ancestry gave which chromosome each segment was on and the number of centimorgans (cM) in each segment. Unless you pay for the Pro tools we can only see the Total number of cM’s and the total # of segments you match on.
Joseph Booth Ada Jones DNA
To separate the Booths from the Jones’, I need to take these matches and find matches for the Jones/Langley line and the Booth/ Robinson line. If one of the six matches I have identified here has an in-common match with me that does not match 1 of the other five, they may be related on either the Langley or Robinson line. The only problem with this theory is that the size of the match may be too small. I and any match would only have inherited approximately 1.5625 – 3.125% of our DNA from the in-common ancestor. The average # of cM for third cousins (3C) is 73cM. The range is anywhere from 0 inherited to 253cM. Third cousins once removed (3C1R)would average 48cM with a range from 0-192 cM.
On Chart 1 my DNA matches:
- M2 > 54cM on three segments. (3 C)
- M4 >178cM on nine segments. (2C1R)
- M5 >114 cM on six segmentd. (3C)
- M7 > 31 cM on three segments (3C)
This looks like an unlikely method, especially since Ada Jones parents George Jones and Jane Langley only had one other child that had children, George M. Jones. George had three daughters: Sarah, Maria, and Adlla. Maria had one son, James J. Boyd. Sarah had no children, and we have no record for Adlla after the 1910 census, where in 1910 she was recorded as 11 years old. Having descendants from Maria who have been tested would help separate the Jones line from the Booth line.
Joseph Booth & Alice Robinson DNA
Joseph Booth’s parents were Joseph Booth and Alice Robinson
Of Joseph and Alice Booth’s nine children, I have traced five who had children. On Ancestry ThruLines®, there are 5 matches, not including those that are indicated through Joseph (Son of Joseph and Alice) and Ada Booth. Now my theory is that if there are matches on the Booth/ Jones Line, and they do not match the Booth Robinson line, they may therefore be a Jones. In other words, those that do not match these five individuals may belong to the Jones/Langley line.
I share 54 cM with M2 on the Booth/Jones line. M2 and I share 16 matches that are not first cousins or closer. Six of those sixteen do not match the 12 matches identified on the Booth/Robinson line.
Possible matches to George Jones or Jane Langley
The six matches identified as sharing the Most Recent Common Ancestor with my M2 match will most likely be on the Jones/Langley Line. Unfortunately, four have no trees, and the two that have trees have one with 19 individuals and the other with 542 individuals. With a quick look, I see one name in common between the two, but that name is not on either M2’s tree or mine.
I was hoping to find a connection here but I am going to have to build these two trees out to find their most recent common ancestor.
I have been working on this off and on now for almost a year. I’m going to take a break. My next step is to create a spreadsheet and verify that the cM values are what is expected for each of these matches.
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Till next time,
