In 'Darwen and its people' by J.G. Shaw (1889) p.140: "James Holden, the second son of 'Owd Timothy o' th' Looms', went off to be a soldier, leaving a wife and two girls behind him. James Lightbown married one of the girls, and the late John Lightbown, who died recently at the patriarchal age of 92, was his youngest son. James had four sons, Thomas, Henry, James and John, and two or three daughters"
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ellen by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ellen: