Who Do You Think You Are - Rose Ayling-Ellis 5th Sep

[ElizabethHerts]

Originally Posted by ayling1

I think her Ayling lines run back to the Aylings of Stedham (as confirmed via YDNA testing with a descendant of this line compared against four testers with known ancestry to Stedham).

I am not of this branch. The predicted ancestor in common for 13 Ayling testers, origins all over West Sussex) is Thomas Aylyng residing in Easebourne in 1381AD. His descendants branched off east and west, to Stedham and Tillington. This is mirrored in the genetics, with a branching between YDNA testers with ancestry concentrated in those two locations. I am of the Tillington branch.

Chris Ayling, Canada
aylinghistory.net

Hi Chris,

As you know, if she comes from the Stedham line then we are distantly related. My 6x-great-grandfather Thomas Ayling (c. 1689 - 1759) was from this line.

How is the DNA testing going?