David Morley
Born 1970s.
Ancestors 
Son of
[private father (1940s - unknown)]
and [private mother (1940s - unknown)]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
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Biography
Recently a very special thing happened to me. My great-great grandfather's telescope found its way to me. He was a career sailor, eventually a ship's captain, and he used this telescope to find his way around the oceans of the world. After his untimely death, this object was stored by his family members, kept as a memory of his being. Over time it was passed from one family member to the next; it went for a journey to New Zealand, where he had lived for a time, and did much of his sailing.
And then it found its way to me. I, too, sail, though in a smaller way than he, and I know that it is his salt water in my veins. Now I look through the same lens as he, and objects distant seem much closer than before.
Did that telescope find its own way to me? Do objects have a memory, a purpose, a sense of ownership? Did it find its own way to the light again, to a place where the descendant of its owner might again hold it to his eye and regard the world with its aid?
Or was this the doing of a series of concerned custodians? Each of them holding a cherished object in their care for a time, then passing it to the next in turn? Surely my time will come in turn to pass this keepsake to the next in turn.
Surely genealogy is both of these things: a lens that makes distant things much closer and more meaningful, and a cherished keepsake that is passed from one custodian to the next, to keep alive and living the memories and deeds of those who have gone before us.
If genealogy tells us all one thing it is this: every single one of us is the sum of their two parents, and their four grandparents, and their eight grandparents, and their sixteen great-grandparents, and so on, and so on. And that is the same for every single one of us - we are each the collective input of every single myriad ancestor that has gone before us. We are each custodian for a time, and then we must pass it forward. Genealogy is the story of each of us, and all of us.
Erratum - (Wikitree tells me that I am directly descended from William the Conqueror, 28 generations before.) Perhaps it is a sign - even a Badge, if you will - of one's coming of age on Wikitree, when one corrects the errors of others, and consequently disproves one's own pedigree.......
June 2020 - A further shining example of Family History connecting to Family Present came to light recently. A family member who fathered a daughter in France shortly after WW1 was unable to maintain contact with this child when he returned to Australia. He took the secret of her existence to his grave with him. We were recently contacted by this daughter's granddaughter, who had located us by a DNA test, and a mystery spanning a century and two hemispheres was finally unravelled.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with David by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage (beta) of DNA with David:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with David by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage (beta) of DNA with David:
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~1.56%
Elaine (Salvador) Hooper
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David is 28 degrees from Larry King, 28 degrees from Edward Bradley, 27 degrees from Walter Cronkite, 24 degrees from Chester Robert Huntley, 29 degrees from Peter Jennings, 25 degrees from Frank McGee, 25 degrees from Edward R. Murrow, 27 degrees from Cokie Roberts, 37 degrees from Léon Zitrone and 25 degrees from Joelle Colville-Hanson on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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.
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I sent you a message a while ago on behalf of the England Project Leaders and have yet to heard back from you. I hope you are well.
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Since the info added on this edit appeared to be from FOSTER instead of the source you added, Wandesford, I reworked it. As you can see I also made minor, mostly cosmetic, improvements on many other sources and links.
Colllaboration is fun and makes for better profiles as new additions can be inspiring.
you have recently changed a number of profiles of my ancestors born, married, or died in Snaith and Cowick parishes (they are now one civil parish) from East Riding to West Riding of Yorkshire. But Wikipedia states that they are in East Riding, and does not mention their ever being in West Riding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snaith_and_Cowick Goole, on the other hand, is now in East Riding, but historicaly was in West Riding, according to Wikipedia.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goole Do you have a source for making the change from East Riding to West Riding for Cowick and Snaith? I trust that you do. If not, then i shall change the Riding back to East for those profiles that are related to Snaith and Cowick. The civil parish of Cowick and Snaith was part of the Goole Rural District in the West Riding of Yorkshire only between 1894 and 1974. In 1974 it reverted to East Riding. It is confusing, for that corner where the Stones and Hall families come from borders on the North, East and West Ridings of Yorkshire, and borders have changed somewhat. Thank you! Albertus