It is a while since I have posted a story and this ones comes with thanks to close relatives who have done DNA tests.
Mary Head’s origins were unknown to me until I solved the
puzzle using DNA*.
May Head was born about 1768 in Willingdon, Sussex, a village just north of Eastbourne. Willingdon is thought to be the setting of George Orwell’s novel “Animal Farm”. Mary was the daughter, and oldest child, of Edward Head and Elizabeth Balcomb**. Her siblings, also born in Willingdon, were Edward, James, William, Henry (or Harry), John and Elizabeth. My uncle and I share DNA with descendants of Edward and John. Curiously, Edward and his family lived very close to where I now live.
