Hi I am Bob Kenyon from North West England

Question

I am researching my Kenyon line which I have traced back to around 1817 in Blackburn and Thomas and Dinah Kenyon as my oldest direct ancestors on that line. If anyone is related I'd love to hear your results.I have hit a wall pre 1817 but know they were predominantly in the Blackburn/Darwin area of Lancashire.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Hi Bob,

I am a group administrator of the Kenyon Project at Family Tree DNA. It is a non-paid volunteer position. Our group focuses on Y-DNA, which follows the paternal line. We have members predominantly from England and the United States. We have discovered there are two main Kenyon lines in England, unrelated in genealogically relevant time. One of our administrators lives in England, Dorset area.

I have personally found following the paper trail can be tricky as the two lines both lived in Lancaster County during the same time period.

FTDNA is currently having a Father's Day sale running until June 18. If you think you might be interested, you can check it out on their website.

Cheers,

Marilyn Kenyon

Comments

Here is the Kenyon DNA Project on FamilyTreeDNA.com.  https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/kenyon/about  And here is the page that tells about the YDNA test sale. https://www.familytreedna.com/products/y-dna  The YDNA is passed from each father to each of his sons, so you may have genetic matches on your paternal Kenyon line of forefathers.  In my opinion, you can start with the basic YDNA37 marker test and if you want to upgrade your test to more markers, you can later.  They store your test results for around 25 years, so later upgrade is readily available. 

Answer 3

Hi Bob,

Just a follow-up to the comment I made to you earlier. I mentioned your post to the other administrator who lives in England. He wanted me to mention to you that we have a couple of other members in the dNA project with Blackburn/Dawen connections. The Blackburn records are complex. If you would like, I can put you in contact with him.

Just let me know.

Marilyn

 

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