[Merry]

I'm certain the short answer if Yes!

OH looked at some results on his thru lines to 'prove' his ancestor was the daughter of a particular couple, as she had left home by 1841 and wasn't baptised and never married, so we had worked out her parentage from a process of elimination - all the other potential parents had a daughter of the same name who we could positively identify as a different individual.

OH found several people whose DNA was the right degree of cousin match and where the most obvious link (looking at their trees) was the parents we had selected as his ancestors - 'Eureka' we said!

However, delving deeper I pointed out that there were several other ways he could be related to his DNA matches, mainly because of the small gene pool in an isolated spot in the New Forest meant a large amount of intermarriage between families (I call the area Little Norfolk!), I think it would be difficult not to be related to the couple we are pretty sure are his ancestors, as their descendants make up a significant percentage of the people living in the area for the next 100 years.