Thanks again to Jane and her father Joseph for this photograph of Joseph Leigh Hunter and his wife Jane Burnett Forrest Johnston nee Kerr (23 NOV 1862 – 2 JAN 1927) We use a colourised version of this photograph as the background of our website; Jane and her father believe the girl Read more
The gentleman called Bill shares 101 cM (centiMorgans) with Ian on Ancestry. How can this be? Bill has a maternal great grandmother called Catherine Walton. Could this be the Kate Walton on Joseph Leigh Hunter’s wedding record? Catherine Walton appears to have been married to Matthew Lee 1838-1892, not a Read more
Above is the Ancestry records and timeline we gathered for Matthew Lee, 1837 – 1892. Why did we start to look at this person and family, well it was down to our genetic connection to Bill. One of his grandmothers was Catherine Walton, the wife of this Matthew Leigh. We Read more
As part of trying to solve the family mystery, Jane and Ian had a dabble with facial recognition software that can be found at familysearch.org At this point Jane and Ian now have an idea about who Joseph Leigh Hunter might have really been, just now about how to prove Read more
The photograph below is of Hannah Lee born on 20 July, 1870 Stanhope, Durham. She was the daughter of Thomas Lee b.1844 & Jane Ann Featherston. Hannah is a 2nd cousin, 3x removed to Jane and Ian. She married John George Nattrass (1875 – 1947) on 01 September, 1895 – Read more
We posted back in September 2021 about a mystery post card that Jane’s father has in his possession, click here to read that post. The earlier post mentions the names Sarah, Jack and Ada. Now we know for certain the real identity of Joseph Leigh Hunter; we know who the Read more
It took cousins Jane and Ian years to work out that their paternal great grandfather lied about his true identity. It seems he took the trouble to make it difficult for his family to discover that his real surname wasn’t Hunter. The only thing he couldn’t hide or lie about Read more
A shared match has recently appeared on MyHeritage showing that they share DNA with Jane, her father Joseph and Ian. Joseph shares the most DNA with the lady, he shares 105 cM as shown be below: We have removed some identifying information and presented the lady’s family tree below. Please Read more
Image above is Jane and Ian’s Great-Grandfather Joseph Leigh Hunter, his wife and step-daughter Finding the real identity of Leigh Hunter and his son Joseph Leigh Hunter How we smashed our genealogical brick wall and made other interesting discoveries during our search to solve our family mystery DNA doesn’t Lie, Read more