Hi, I received a Google Alert giving the death of a male with my ONS surname over the weekend. Wasn't sure which branch he belonged to so traced back in the usual way in the GRO BMD Indexes to discover his father had the same birth surname as his mother's maiden name? probably illegitimate, and was born post 1911 and the censuses. The Registration District is the most prominent for my ONS so I can't just look for a female of the right age to have had a baby, would have to buy the birth certificate just to discover her first name? Did think that if he had been baptized that would give mother's first name and possibly the name of the father as well, only few baptism registers for around 1920 have been deposited yet. Guess now is not the time to contact descendants! One slight possibility is that the recently deceased gentleman seems to have added his father on Genes Reunited, that if I sent a message to view his tree I might get a reply from whoever now has access to his computer? From Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. E-Mail: merryl.wells@one-name.org GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Owston via" <goons@rootsweb.com> To: "Elizabeth Kipp" <kippeeb@rogers.com>; "Goons Mailing List" <goons@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 4:13 PM Subject: Re: [G] yDNA and its effect on one-name studies >I would venture to say most single origin surname Y-DNA projects have > experienced NPEs where documented lines produce different results from > the primary surname modal haplotype. I have a low-frequency surname > with probably only 500 individuals (male and female) with three > variations of the name and have tested 28 males. This is not a huge > sample; but of those 28, eight participants have different haplotypes. > > Two of those are descended from unmarried women where their sons kept > the surname. > I've looked at the GRO records for England and Wales from 1911-2006. > Since 1960, there are interesting results with my surname. > > 29% of the male births with my surname occurred in lines with known NPEs. > > 17% of the male births were to unmarried women of my surname who > registered their children under both the mother's and father's > surnames. > > 7% of the male births were to unmarried women of my surname who > registered their children under the mother's surname. > Jim