Rachael WOOD

Abt 1741 - Yes, date unknown

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• Name	Rachael WOOD
  Relationship	with Teresa Ann GOATHAM
  Born	Abt 1741
  Baptised	18 Sep 1741	St. Mary the Virgin’s Church, Hayes, Kent, England
  	From PR entry (transcribed data on FS) Shows Rachael Wood, father Benjamin Wood
  Gender	Female
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Origins
  Person ID	I35469	All | The descendants (and other halves) of Richard Whitehead and Mary née Grigsby
  Last Modified	13 Nov 2024

  
  

  Family 1	Richard WHITEHEAD,   b. Abt 1739,   d. Sep 1830, Stockbury, Kent, England  (Age ~ 91 years)  Other Partners: Ann STOCKWELL;   Mary GRIGSBY  m. 20 Feb 1776
  Married?	Not married or evidence to suggest they didn't marry
  Notes	Sarah WOOD appears on a number of trees as the daughter of Richard WHITEHEAD and Rachael WOOD; I have no other evidence of a link between Richard and Rachael. As I have not spotted a tree with any good evidence for this I would not usually add something like this to my tree, but in this case there are two things that make it worth considering: 1. If you find an ancestor with a fairly common name like Sarah WOOD it can be hard to determine the right one. Most baptism PR entries don't name the father of an illegitimate child, so you may well find Sarah's mother or the wrong Sarah. Occasionally the father is named, that maybe the case here (since I have not see a baptism for Sarah) but most likely Richard's name as father was from more in-dept research. So whilst it is not on any tree I have seen it looks like some research might have been done linking Richard to Rachael (the most likely place would seem to be Hayes, Kent poor law records, which I hope to see in the future). 2. The Kentish part (quarter) of my ancestry is mostly from East Kent. Even Stockbury is further West than most. Yet I have two DNA matches who it appears are descended from Sarah WOOD, one by each of her marriages - from her daughter Ann TAPSELL and her son Robert LEWIS. I share just 11cM with each of these matches, not surprising if the source of the shared DNA is as it seems likely Richard Whitehead; I am half 5th cousin once removed to one match, half 5th cousin to the other. I do have shared matches to each of these (identified by Ancestry, who only show shared matches who have at least 20cM matching the subject of the match so I am lucky to have them - they wouldn't see me as a match). However, in one case the shared match shares all of my Kentish ancestry, and in the other I have two matches, two siblings, who share half of my Kentish ancestry, so these matches really only more-or-less confirm that the link is via my Kentish great grandfather's side of my tree. I would have hoped that I might have had link(s) that limited it a bit furthur - to the eighth of my Goatham great grandfather's ancestry, i.e. to descendants of other children of Richard and his wife Mary GRIGSBY, or to descendants of his siblings. Even if less than 20cM they could be useful; I may look for links on other sites or ask Ancestry DNA matches who I believe match through Richard or his parents if they too have matches with descendants of Sarah WOOD.
  Children	+ 1. Sarah WOOD, [Parents?],   b. Abt 1763, (probably near) Cudham, Kent, England ,   d. Mar Q 1858, Bromley Reg Dist, Kent, England  (Age ~ 95 years) ▻ George TAPSELL  m. 27 Oct 1783;   Richard LEWIS  m. 11 Jul 1801
  Last Modified	25 Mar 2023
  Family ID	F3289	Family Group Page  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Thomas ARRATAR,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	28 May 1769	The Parish Church, Keston, Kent, England
  	From PR entry (transcribed data on FS) Shows Rachael Wood married Thos. Arratar, no other info. transcribed
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2022
  Family ID	F3292	Family Group Page  |  Family Chart