Hello, I manage the DNA of several of my cousins one of whom has Nankivell ancestors on her "other" side, ie, not shared with me. Her GEDMatch number is A579963 and I'd welcome contact with any of her DNA matches in this line. Her great-grandfather, Richard NANKIVELL was born in Lidford, Devon in 1847 and moved to the Camelford area of Cornwall (living with his brother who had moved earlier) before marrying and settling in north Cornwall, dying there in 1908. He and his brothers were all stone masons and I was interested to read that one of the other list members mentioned that their connection in this family was a mining engineer. The Camelford area was important for mining/ quarrying for very many centuries. My cousin was under the impression that this was a Cornish name and was surprised to hear that her ancestor come from Devon. I have not researched it, but I suspect that one line of enquiry would be that this was, in effect, a family of "journeying stoneworkers", originating in Cornwall but travelling to where the best mining or quarrying work happened to be. Later in C19, many Cornish miners and other stoneworkers migrated more permanently to work in the rapidly expanding mining industries in the British Colonies - in South Africa, Canada, Australia ... Susan Johnstone > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:20:57 -0600 > From: Carol <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [DEV] DEVON Digest, Vol 12, Issue 358 > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hello, > > I have many ancestors with the variations of the name Nankivell--mostly > Nancekivel, but some Kankivells also. I have heard they may have been from > Cornwall. The earliest I can locate is Rbt Nancekivel born in 1600 in > Langtree, Devon who was my 7th great grandfather. The generations from > there are: > William born in 1630 in Langtree, John born `1687 in Langtree, Thomas born > 1731 (not sure where he was born, but could have been Farringdon), Thomas > II > born 1763 in Parkham, and Elizabeth Nancekivell born 1808 in > Woolfardisworthy. > > Do you have any information about the Nankivell family that you could > share? > I have been searching for information about them for many years and always > hope to learn something new. I would so appreciate anything! I would love > to know where Thomas I was born--was it in Farringdon? > > Carol > Colorado, USA > > > >