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From: "Roy Johnson" <>
Subject: [PACE] Fascinating letter from Ireland
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 21:00:23 -0600


I had to disappoint this lady on the DNA test but she is trying to trace a
female. But what a fascinating letter! And of course the locale is in John
of Middlesex territory.

Gordon (of Canada), are you there? Maybe you have something on this Sarah
Pace.

Roy Johnson

-----Original Message-----
From: Liz Forrest [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 1:47 PM
To:
Subject: possible Pace descendant query re test

Hello, I am a 60 year old widow living in Ireland and just found your
webpage when trying to trace the roots of Sarah Pace, of Cheswardine Lane,
Stockton, Shropshire (1881 UK Census?) who is listed as having a
granddaughter named Ellen Evans, aged 14, who may have been my
great-grandmother. I only know her name and that she was a barmaid at the
Talbot Arms Inn in Shifnal aged 15, when she became pregnant with my
grandfather, who died in his 70s in the early 1950s in Smethwick,
Birmingham.

My own ancestry is worldwide (my Dad was born in India of mixed ancestry,
including Portuguese, British and Indian), but I've discovered that Shifnal
or Idsal was noted up until the 1870s for a population whose average age at
death could be up to 140 (Post Office records). As two of my
great-grandparents are from there and one possibly links to Sarah Pace
(Ellen apparently tried to commit suicide aged c. 90 -- one could understand
why if all her loved ones were gone and no end in sight), would you be
interested in a DNA sample?
Unfortunately I cannot afford to pay for it at present -- I've been living
in a stone building without electricity for nearly the past two years as it
became much too expensive (450 euros each bill and climbing!), but I'm
working on a solution. I haven't had the time and money to search and pay
for corroborative records, so my apologies if I'm in error. Liz Forrest O
Driscoll

PS: Does blood type prevalence have any link to this as well? I'm A+ but
my sister is AB- as my father was AB, mother 0.



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