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Descendants of Daniel DOVASTON, the owner of a freehold estate at Dovaston, Shropshire "Which had been helf by his family since the days of Good Queen Bess and still so remains".
The DOVASTON Surname by Ruth Dovaston Stant: http://www.gone-butnotforgotten.org.uk/dovaston/
Ruth started her interest in the DOVASTON Family Tree back in the 1980's. After much painstaking research in dusty libraries, she soon realised her family went back to one man, Daniel Dovaston at Kinnerley in Shropshire, so she drew up the first Dovaston Ancestral Chart and later published it during the early days of the WorldWideWeb.
Her original Dovaston website began in the 1990's and she has since helped many genealogists find their link to her extensive DOVASTON Family Tree. Ruth has recently turned from investigating paper records towards DNA, keen to discover the Y-DNA of Dovaston males so that the family tree can progress further back beyond the 17thC. Unfortunately, not one Dovaston male has yet been tested or has published his result, so it is impossible to prove all the paper records and the line of descent. Ruth believes the surname comes from several sources, quite unrelated families, and that only DNA will prove all.
You only need test Y-12 STRs. Test SNPs. SNPs Are The BEST Proof Of Ancestry.
The DOVASTON Project includes the surname DOVESTON
The DOVASTON Surname by Ruth Dovaston Stant: http://www.gone-butnotforgotten.org.uk/dovaston/
Ruth started her interest in the DOVASTON Family Tree back in the 1980's. After much painstaking research in dusty libraries, she soon realised her family went back to one man, Daniel Dovaston at Kinnerley in Shropshire, so she drew up the first Dovaston Ancestral Chart and later published it during the early days of the WorldWideWeb.
Her original Dovaston website began in the 1990's and she has since helped many genealogists find their link to her extensive DOVASTON Family Tree. Ruth has recently turned from investigating paper records towards DNA, keen to discover the Y-DNA of Dovaston males so that the family tree can progress further back beyond the 17thC. Unfortunately, not one Dovaston male has yet been tested or has published his result, so it is impossible to prove all the paper records and the line of descent. Ruth believes the surname comes from several sources, quite unrelated families, and that only DNA will prove all.
You only need test Y-12 STRs. Test SNPs. SNPs Are The BEST Proof Of Ancestry.
The DOVASTON Project includes the surname DOVESTON