Edwin Reffell
Honor Code SignatorySigned 27 Dec 2012 | 15,049 contributions | 201 thank-yous | 843 connections
Signed 27 Dec 2012 | 15,049 contributions | 201 thank-yous | 843 connections
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Edwin Reffell
Ancestors 
Son of John Reffell
and Bathia (Michie) Reffell
Brother of
[private brother (1950s - 1970s)]
[children unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 25 Dec 2012
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Biography
July 2023 I am having problems with my brain and can now only add people, simple skeleton profiles for others to improve on.
I am manager of more profiles than i can manage and i want to remove myself from most of them. there are so many wikitreers to thank and i get confused.
My father a veritable jack d'urbervilles i very much dislike writing biographies and at least equally like writing, especially ironic such. So you have been warned.
One day I shall translate Hasse and Tage's "Sagan om den raettvisa Gudrun" in "Sagor foer barn oever 18 aar" as, saga about the just and fair Gudrun "Saga of Fair Gudrun" in "Sagas for Children Over the Age of 18. I As of 2022-10-16 everything for birth in the wikitree profiles i make is actually for the rite usually called baptism in accordance with what is usually found recorded instead of birth details. Similarly what i have to put for death is in reality what is usually found, namely burial. My interest in genealogy got under way in 1968. It is my fatherline that interests me, especially the origin of my surname. Doing the orphan trail i learned to source properly and inline. previously i have done a bit of transcription. my fatherline profiles in wikitree constitute the only online tree that i shall keep updated. The profiles I make have little biographic detail. My primary concern is to find parentage and year of births, marriages and deaths. The design I prefer for my profiles is inline sourced short Biography followed by Research Notes, followed by Sources. When others have taken the time to make a profile citing commercial sites, family trees or personal hearsay I only add to what they have done.I do not include commercial sites , family trees or personal hearsay as sources in the profiles I myself make unless the source information has been given me from a named commercial site.. Whenever possible the sources I cite are the ones I find reliable and that involve no fee to view. They are also the ones I find easiest and least time consuming to use. For the UK profiles I make the only sources I cite whenever possible are for before 1837 FreeReg, for from 1841 FreeCen, from 1837 FreeBMD from 1837 GRO. These are qualitative improvements I have found necessary to make to my searching and sourcing methods. I do not consider the changes made to FamilySearch an improvement but on the contrary deplorable. I may be wrong. Feedback on incorrect transcription is prevented and replaced by a load of completely irrelevant help-groups. A marriage of a Joan Russell, for example is found as Joan Ruffield, [1]Edit not available. Comparison with other f shows it is not -ff- and even without zooming it clearly does not end with -ld but -ell. That is not all. I searched for my greatgrandfather in changed FamiySearch using the details FamilySearch has in his baptism record and got the No results message! If it were not prevented i would send FamilySearch the screenshot. It makes me sad because former, unchanged FamilySearch was so helpful and reliable. Without it my familytree would stop at my grandfather and i would probably not even have many of my father's 15 siblings.I recommended it highly to all my genealogical contacts. The first known record in my presumed fatherline is 1695 from Dorking, Surrey, England. It is also ydna corroborated. Since the surname of that ancestor is rendered as Ruffould (if I remember rightly) I believe most if not all 16th century Dorking records recorded with various surname spelling to be of my ancestors. So my main interest is Surrey. Apart from the Dorking area my interest is in Hampshire, the closer to Dorking the more the interest. Where they came from before that I do not know. With literacy, the attitude I have experienced from the English towards what my surname is contra what they thought it should be instead, handwriting, hearing, recording, transcription as they are I can never be sure if the "Riffold" or some such encountered record is of my ancestor or someone else's ancestor. I do not think my ancestors were Huguenots or Ashkenazi. Moreover ydna says I have no or at the very most a negligible less than 2 percent Ashkenazi dna. My surname is Germanic . I have ydna matches with Mann, Onstatt and Everly and one of my more recent ydna matches is with a Ruffell. As you will see from the profiles I have created i am still a Learner with a capital L when it comes to the techniques of Wikitree and i dont like biographying. My special interests are the possibly European origins of my surname, the Dorking, Surrey,England area for the umpteen variations my surname is found recorded as, the Bradley, Hampshire, England area for Ruffell etc,, Virginia and the southern US states for descendants of Robert Mann 1642 England? or Surrey County USA? -1713/4 Henrico County, Virginia, (now USA), families whose ydna matches mine.
Edwin Reffell has completed the England Project's Post 1700 Orphan Trail I.
Sources
- First-hand information. Entered by Edwin Reffell at registration and aggiornamentoed.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Edwin or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Edwin or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Edwin Reffell: Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup T-FTA1693, FTDNA kit #IN49944
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Edwin Reffell:
AncestryDNA
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Living DNA, GEDmatch CM1315243 [compare], FTDNA kit #IN49944
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~1.56%
Andrew Chapman
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch AX2089771 [compare], Ancestry member asmchapman
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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Edwin:
- Edwin Reffell is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jun 15, 2020.
Rejected matches › William George Reffell (abt.1874-abt.1894)
Edwin is 26 degrees from Emeril Lagasse, 25 degrees from Nigella Lawson, 23 degrees from Maggie Beer, 46 degrees from Mary Hunnings, 31 degrees from Joop Braakhekke, 31 degrees from Michael Chow, 30 degrees from Ree Drummond, 28 degrees from Paul Hollywood, 28 degrees from Matty Matheson, 30 degrees from Martha Stewart, 38 degrees from Danny Trejo and 35 degrees from Molly Yeh on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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Thanks for creating pre-1700 profile Ann Reffould (-bef.1642).
Please provide at least a birth or death location estimate rather than leaving both locations blank. This helps disambiguate people since we have a global tree, locations help distinguish one profile of the same name from another. Even an estimate such as a continent, e.g., Europe or North America, is better than blank. Please read more here. Please explain the rationale for your estimate in a = = Research Notes = = section.
In the case of Ann, you cited that she was buried in St Martin so it is almost certain that she died in England.
-William
As we discussed your membership in US Southern Colonies Project, you have been removed from the project for now. However, if you’d like to rejoin at any stage you would be most welcome to do so by answering the G2G sign-up post here.
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Thanks again for last weekend, we look forward to working with you again
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edited by Edwin Reffell
There is an art in knowing when to leave a profile and move on. I usually add the profile to a personal category and come back to it later.
Thanks Janet
I sent you a check-in message a week ago about the US Southern Colonies Project to ask you about your continued involvement but have not yet heard back from you. Do you still want to be in the project?
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edited by Edwin Reffell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mann_(Royal_Navy_officer)
or this FindAGrave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9002207/robert-mann
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LJKF-HS6/robert-mann-sr.-1650-1713
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LJKF-HS6/robert-mann-sr.-1650-1713
If the birthdate, deathdate are correct I will look for some more sources....
Mary
edited by Mary Richardson
It is that time again.
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I look forward to hearing from you.. Many thanks,
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It's that time of the year again: check-in time! As England Project Leaders, we like to check in with you every six months or so to see how things are progressing. Back in May, we didn't ask for a response due to the rapid emergence of Covid-19 because we understood that people's lives were changing rapidly. While we are still living in a Covid world, we do need to hear back from you this time around
First of all, how are you doing? What are you currently working on? Are you happy with the team(s) you're in, or would you like to change things up?
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Looking forward to hearing from you,
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for your second question i dont know but too many notifications to check, usually with hearsay, Ancestry 0r family trees as sources so i ended up trying to find sources that are free and reliable (not easy for US profiles). so i untagged all but Reffell. on collaboration what has worked best for me is email to email contact. when i have done the cleaning and sourcing i want to work on the surname Reffell, list the ways it is recorded in the censuses and documents, trace its development back to when it came to the UK and try and find paper record links to ynda matches of Ruffell, Mann, Onstat(t) and Everly. i am not interested in notables. there is usually already loads on them but very little on ordinary people. that being said i do have an ancestral relative of disputed paternity, possibly xdna related to an associate of some of the most notable gentlemen of her time so that despite her anything but notable origins aged 89 she died so rich (estate would be equal to 20 million pounds today) that her will disappeared traceless and she got a paragraph in the local paper to the effect that she had died and was 100.
Thanks for listing McClelland Mann. He was my great grandfather. My father told me a few stories about him and I have picture or two of him in his later years. He was quite a character!
cheers, Edwijn
Cheers, Liz
Your England Leaders are completing the six monthly check in with all team members. I wanted to thank you for your work on English Profiles and particularly your work in Families Team.
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On behalf of the England Leaders, I wanted to say a huge thank you for all your contributions towards the project in the past six months as an Orphan Trailer. We've achieved a great deal during this time and we couldn't have done it without you.
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You could add tag for Reffell, comment "I'd love to collaborate on these surnames". SAVE
Tag for Mann (comment "I'd love to collaborate on these surnames") Then SAVE
tag for Coulter - "I'd love to collaborate on these surnames" then SAVE
Tag for Murison - "Bathia Wallace Murison was my grandfather" THEN SAVE SAVE
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Now I have added these and you Volunteer
Thanks Mary
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