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I am an active member of the Pike One Name Study Project. Other than my own Pike ancestors, my special interest is in Pike families who emigrated to Australia, and their origins, particularly those in Wiltshire, England. I have also worked on extending and connecting many other Pike profiles in Australia, New Zealand, and England.
Note: IF I AM MANAGER FOR A PROFILE THAT IS ONE OF YOUR DIRECT ANCESTORS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME & I'LL ADD YOU AS THE MANAGER - just because I am currently the manager of a profile does not mean I am directly related .... I may be just "minding" the profile until a family member finds them!
My Ancestors
My own PIKE family originated from Tidcombe (a small village) in Wiltshire, England, where my 5xGGF, Joseph Pike (~1748-1818), lived. His two sons (my 4xGGF) James Pike (1797) and his brother, Joseph Pike (1789-1870), along with their wives and children (a combined family of 16 in total) emigrated to Australia in 1840 as free (assisted) settlers. Neither were young men (in their mid-late forties) and both listed their occupations as "agricultural labourer" (as did one of their older sons, whilst an elder daughter is listed as a maid). They arrived in South Australia from London on the ship Fairlie on July 7 1840. Many of their descendants soon moved on to other states of Australia - Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia.
My paternal grandmother was a BRICKNELL. Her family, James Bricknell (1813-1895), emigrated to Australia from Ropley, Hampshire, England in 1856, and settled in Tasmania, where she married into the PIKE family.
My maternal grandfather was a TREWHELLA. His family, Theophilus Trewhella (~1825-1912), emigrated to Australia from Cornwall, England, in 1855, and settled in Buninyong, Victoria.
My maternal grandmother was a McKENZIE. Her family, Frank McKenzie (~1876-1962), settled in Buninyong, Victoria, where she met and married my grandfather TREWHELLA. Her father's origins remain unknown, as we can only trace him back to Geelong, Victoria, about 1850, as he listed his parents as "unknown" on his marriage certificate.
I have Scottish origins, from my GGrandmother, who was a ROBERTSON. She was born in Paisley, Scotland, and was only two years old when she arrived in Victoria in 1854 with her parents, Duncan McKellar Robertson (1830-1905). She married into the PIKE family.
59%: Irish, Scottish, and Welsh (2 Genetic Groups)
27.7%: English
13.3%: 2 other ethnicities (Scandinavian and Finnish)
5 Additional Genetic Groups
Paternal relationship is confirmed by a MyHeritageDNA test match between Christine Pike and her 1st cousin, Dorothy. Their most-recent common ancestors are their grandparents Caleb Pike and Ethel Grace (Bricknell) Pike. Predicted relationship from MyHeritage: "1st cousin, great-aunt", based on sharing 843.4 cM across 27 segments.
Shared DNA: 11.9% (843.4 cM)
Shared segments: 27
Largest segment: 84.9 cM
Paternal relationship is confirmed by a MyHeritageDNA test match between Christine Pike and her 1st cousin, Dawn. Their most-recent common ancestors are their grandparents Caleb Pike and Ethel Grace (Bricknell) Pike. Predicted relationship from MyHeritage: "Great-aunt, 1st cousin", based on sharing 761.4 cM across 27 segments.
Shared DNA: 10.7% (761.4 cM)
Shared segments: 29
Largest segment: 69.8 cM
Paternal relationship is confirmed by a MyHeritageDNA test match between Christine Pike and her 3rd cousin, John Maxwell Moir. Their most-recent common ancestors are their 2nd great grandparents, James Bricknell and Anne (Pullinger) Bricknell. Predicted relationship from MyHeritage: "1st cousin twice removed - 3rd cousin once removed", based on sharing 106.5 cM across 3 segments.
Shared DNA: 1.5% (106.5 cM)
Shared segments: 3
Largest segment: 72.2 cM
Maternal relationship is confirmed by a MyHeritageDNA test match between Christine Pike and her 3rd cousin, Erin Lightfoot. Their most-recent common ancestors are their 2nd great grandparents, Arthur Edwin Irish and Sarah Ann (Hurford) Irish. Predicted relationship from MyHeritage: "1st cousin twice removed - 3rd cousin once removed", based on sharing 100.6 cM across 5 segments.
Shared DNA: 1.4% (100.6 cM)
Shared segments: 5
Largest segment: 30.4 cM
My WikiTree Directive
My Request: "To aid WikiTree in the administration of my account should I be incapacitated, or in the event of my death, I hereby give permission for:
all living private profiles I manage to be transferred to any/one of the above members of my family, whether or not they are currently on the Trusted Lists
all deceased private profiles I manage to be changed to open, since I am confident they contain no personal or private details which could infringe upon the privacy rights of any living family members
Thank you, Pike-5935 " 11:39, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
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DNA Connections
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Hi, Christine: I note you have Dansons of Harbour Grace in your tree. I have an ancestor in my tree by the name of Sarah Danson Snow born 1827 of Edward Henry Snow and Elizabeth Dormady, as you may recall Captain William Henry Pike (of George and Mary) 1849-1877 was the biological father of my GM, Sarah Jane Snow. Her mother was Anna Dora Snow (1845-1922) of Edward and Elizabeth. In any event I have been trying to find a conncection between the Snows and Dansons to no avail. Ideas? Another topic, would you grant me permission to compare my family Gedmatch accounts and yours. Much appreciated.
Sorry, but I am not related to the Pikes in Newfoundland - I have just been helping to try and connect and cleanup the Newfoundland Pike profiles already in WikiTree.
If I come across anything about the Danson-Snow connection I will let you know.
THANKS so much for doing the merge Christine, I hope I haven't accidentally merged any other profiles, I have been careful but obviously not enough. I love your tree and how you have put your family information on you page. It is so interesting to read. Thanks again for the merge. Kind regards
Thank you for your good solid work on the Pyke family. My brother-in-law was chuffed to discover he was a descendant of King Edward III, and I was able to tell him the documentary trail was as solid as it gets.
I wish I could work out where Elizabeth came from before she married as she is unconnected to the main tree and my interest is rather tangential. Thank you for improving her biography. However, I am a bit puzzled as to why you added 'link not available without subscription' to the marriage citation. My experience with www.findmypast.co.uk is that English parish baptisms and marriages are available without subscription (a free account is all that's required), it is only burials that are behind the paywall. Are the access rules different on other countries' versions of FMP?
Ruth
I noticed you sent me two thank yous today for Amy Pyke Stabb (1765-). 😊. Amy has been one of my brick walls. I’ve been trying to see if her family was part of the Newfoundland fishery that stemmed from Devon but have so far been unsuccessful. I’m interested in joining the Pike Project.
Thanks for contacting me. It would be great to have another helping hand on the Pike project - just go to the project page (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Pike_Name_Study) and follow instructions there on joining, and update the page with your details.
Currently, there is no-one working on Newfoundland Pikes, so I hope you can locate those connections you are hoping for.
I have noted that you are adding sources and references to my Wiltshire family. I was planning to say before that although your focus is Tidcombe, it could be reasonable to add the family connections in Ham and Fosbury for more connections. Maybe not so much immediate family but a broader group that might be connected.
I came across Esther Rolfe, who married Thomas Whitbread, whilst researching the Blundy family, as she married Stephen Blundy after Thomas died, so I added their children too, as they were critical to verifying the connections.
You have already noted Isaac Whitebread, his elder two sons were christened in Tidcombe.
Isaac emigrated with his family on 'Charles Kerr', arriving 17 Jun 1840. Also on that voyage was his brother-in-law George Mills with wife and children.
Hi Christine. James Whitbread (1806-1890) was buried at St John's Churchyard on Church Street, Salisbury, South Australia. I have just noticed that 150m north, Church Street intersects with 'Wiltshire Street'. I suspect that Shadrach and Rachael had some influence on the street name. :-)
Hi Christine. Thank you for posting so much information onto the profile of Anthony (Stanitzki-9). I am only a distant relative via marriage in the Henschke family.
I do like and will copy the paragraph in your profile "Note: IF I AM MANAGER FOR A PROFILE THAT IS ONE OF YOUR DIRECT ANCESTORS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME & I'LL ADD YOU AS THE MANAGER - just because I am currently the manager of a profile does not mean I am directly related .... I may be just "minding" the profile until a family member finds them!".
Regards, Steve.
P.S. I spend most of my time looking at German and Irish family connections. I looked through your profile and "Tidcombe, Wiltshire" is a location that seems very familiar from my researching the Whitebread family. For example James (Whitebread-102).
You are most welcome. I too am only a distant relative by marriage, but my husband remembers well the Stanitski family farm of his grandson, Cliff, at Loxton, where he spent much tome as a child, and was grateful to find so much info about Anton/Anthony in the newspaper. His mother was a cousin of Cliff's wife, Dot.
You have added a lot of information to the profile of my GG-grandfather Philip James (Marchant-924). https://noye.agsa.sa.gov.au/Photogs/March_pj.htm
You might have noticed that one of PJ's daughters married a grandson of James (Nicholson-6176).
Yes, we are not short of family photos. I'm giving myself a new project to scour the State Library of South Australia to add photos to the Wikitree profiles I manage. For example PJ's grandfather, Samuel (Marchant-1002) (1787-1866) https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+1442/2/6
Hi Christine, I also saw a their is an Anna Barb Kerne Bertholet listed under another family tree. All info matches. Don't exactly know how to go about merging into the Anne Bard Kerne Bertholet.
Thank you so much for the lovely appreciation message you posted on the forum. I am new here so it was so touching to receive one!
I would also like to thank you for your role in the Pike/Pyke name study. It's great to be able to contribute in any small way to a bigger study; I have a few more Pykes to add, going back to 1582!
Isee you merged data on a Katharina (Bergen) Driedger. In Kathatina shows no b-date or location. I need to ask how it is that she is shown here as b) 1738 in lakendorf, there are seerl bergen familes close by. The parents of those born 1730's-40's, is not well known. As I am trcingbergens, i wish to learn more on her. cn you tell me anything? mike at [email address removed]
Katharina (Bergen) Driedger is one of 3 duplicate profiles (husband/wife/child) which required merging - her husband Johan Driedger and a daughter Aganetha B Driedger (1761-1801) (which were merged about a month ago).
I am not able to check either sources as they are both Subscription only, so I suggest you contact the profile manager, T Pethoud, for further information.
Hi Christine. Thanks for all the work you do updating the profiles of my ancestors starting with Pyke-489. I would have done it myself but I'm still not sure how to enter the sources.
Perhaps you can use the updates I made as a guide to adding any further sources you find. I also found looking at how others did tgeir profiles helpul when I first started.
Let me know if there is anything I can do to help you.
P.S. The help pages are useful, ie. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:How_to_Edit_a_Profile
Hi Christine, Thanks for merging the profiles Stephens-5539 and Stevens-17392. Can you tell me what source you used to determine the correct lnab spelling?
Thank you, for replying. In the future please be sure of the correct lnab spelling before merging. Merges are one of the things we can not undo. Thanks!
If you are a profile manager, and you propose the merge, as you did on 2 Aug, 2020, then no you don't get an email, only the other profile manager does.
You then have to wait for them to approve it, or until a default approval happens after 30 days.
You don't get an email to tell you if this happens, only once the merge has been completed.
PS. You can view the status of any merges you propose under the Menu item "Find-> Pending Merges-> Pending Merges Initiated by me"
Yes, I was not able to solve that mismatch when merging, so I left the death date you appear to have obtained from Ancestry, but also retained the conflicting date/source from the other profile for you to sort out with the other profile manager. Sorry, I can't be of more help. I probably should have put a note in explaining. I was not able to verify either dates, since Ancestry and and source 8 are both subscribed sites I can't access, and when I went to the site for source 9, my searches were not successful. Have you been in contact with the other profile manager?
Christine
Hi Christine. :D Thank you completing the Haeusler-84 into Laube-48 merge. Your efforts are always appreciated. Hope all is going well for you & yours in these Covid times.
Thanks for adding Lydia Pike (pike-8613) to your ONS list. I may have some more Pike relatives to add once I've sorted out a possible early death and a re-marriage.
Good to see another Pike descendent joining Wikitree, and adding their family into our global community. Perhaps your tree will connect into other existing family branches.
Good luck with your research.
Thank you
Christine
Thank you very much for completing the merge of Helen Hopcroft (Hopcroft-53) and Helen Hopcraft (Hopcraft-36). I did not realise until you did this that I could help other WikiTreers with proposed merges so thanks for that also.
Hi Christine. Thanks for completing the merge on Oldford-68. Just to confirm: did you check the sources to know which of the conflicting information to keep? Let me know so I know whether to check them. Thanks again, Chris
Thank you Christine for cleaning up the data for Abraham Shook, son of Jacob Shook. There are still too many Abraham's listed as a son of Jacob. Maybe it is down to two now thanks to your efforts.
Christine thank you so very much for your time and effort that you put into helping others. You have been very generous with your time and your effort, you are very sweet. Deborah Wells Gierach
Dear Christine, Thank you for the William Swank (1796 - 1865) merge, after checking it I see there is a McFarland there, the last name of my oncology doctor... what are the odds we are related... hahaaaa.... this would blow him away. Thank you and may 'ALL of Your Merges be Successful' !! Jut cuz !!
Thanks again for your wonderful work on the Pike Surname Project. It seems that you have done almost if not more work on it than I have. I've done work on the project on one continent while you have worked on at least 3 if not more.
Hi, Christine. My name is Frank Walsh and my Great Grandfather was William Henry Pike of Carbonear, Newfoundland, born 1849 of Captain George Pike and Mary Pittman. The family moved to nearby Harbour Grace, Nfld. Richard (1834-1893) was the result of Captain George's first marriage to Susannah Taylor who died and George subsequently married Mary Pittman. The offspring of this union was my GGF, Captain William Henry Pike, who drowned (along with his crew) in 1878 on his way back from Antigua to Harbour Grace aboard the Schooner Carrie. If I recall correctly, the Pike family originated in Dorset, England
Congratulations on making more than 1,000 contributions to WikiTree for the Month of May. We all appreciate your efforts to make our Shared Tree the best it can be. Keep up the great work and THANK YOU!
I see we are 5th cousins through our McKeller line. I have given you access to Duncan, our common ancestor per your request. I see only my DNA for comparison. Please consider adding some family members DNA tests to help assist in proving our connection. Drop me a line. Enjoy, and continued happy hunting.
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Sorry, but I am not related to the Pikes in Newfoundland - I have just been helping to try and connect and cleanup the Newfoundland Pike profiles already in WikiTree.
If I come across anything about the Danson-Snow connection I will let you know.
Regards, Christine
Vicki Heneker, Sth Australia
I am always glad to hear my efforts are appreciated.
Kind regards, Christine
😁 Christine
I wish I could work out where Elizabeth came from before she married as she is unconnected to the main tree and my interest is rather tangential. Thank you for improving her biography. However, I am a bit puzzled as to why you added 'link not available without subscription' to the marriage citation. My experience with www.findmypast.co.uk is that English parish baptisms and marriages are available without subscription (a free account is all that's required), it is only burials that are behind the paywall. Are the access rules different on other countries' versions of FMP? Ruth
I noticed you sent me two thank yous today for Amy Pyke Stabb (1765-). 😊. Amy has been one of my brick walls. I’ve been trying to see if her family was part of the Newfoundland fishery that stemmed from Devon but have so far been unsuccessful. I’m interested in joining the Pike Project.
Lynn Chapple
Thanks for contacting me. It would be great to have another helping hand on the Pike project - just go to the project page (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Pike_Name_Study) and follow instructions there on joining, and update the page with your details.
Currently, there is no-one working on Newfoundland Pikes, so I hope you can locate those connections you are hoping for.
Good luck, and best wishes, Christine
I have noted that you are adding sources and references to my Wiltshire family. I was planning to say before that although your focus is Tidcombe, it could be reasonable to add the family connections in Ham and Fosbury for more connections. Maybe not so much immediate family but a broader group that might be connected.
You have already noted Isaac Whitebread, his elder two sons were christened in Tidcombe. Isaac emigrated with his family on 'Charles Kerr', arriving 17 Jun 1840. Also on that voyage was his brother-in-law George Mills with wife and children.
That's quite amusing!
I do like and will copy the paragraph in your profile "Note: IF I AM MANAGER FOR A PROFILE THAT IS ONE OF YOUR DIRECT ANCESTORS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME & I'LL ADD YOU AS THE MANAGER - just because I am currently the manager of a profile does not mean I am directly related .... I may be just "minding" the profile until a family member finds them!".
Regards, Steve.
P.S. I spend most of my time looking at German and Irish family connections. I looked through your profile and "Tidcombe, Wiltshire" is a location that seems very familiar from my researching the Whitebread family. For example James (Whitebread-102).
edited by Steve Thomas
You have added a lot of information to the profile of my GG-grandfather Philip James (Marchant-924). https://noye.agsa.sa.gov.au/Photogs/March_pj.htm You might have noticed that one of PJ's daughters married a grandson of James (Nicholson-6176).
P.S. Love the photos in your family collection!
edited by Christine Pike
edited by Steve Thomas
I have completed the required merges to align the family members. Regards, Christine
Thank you so much for the lovely appreciation message you posted on the forum. I am new here so it was so touching to receive one!
I would also like to thank you for your role in the Pike/Pyke name study. It's great to be able to contribute in any small way to a bigger study; I have a few more Pykes to add, going back to 1582!
Kind regards,
J
Katharina (Bergen) Driedger is one of 3 duplicate profiles (husband/wife/child) which required merging - her husband Johan Driedger and a daughter Aganetha B Driedger (1761-1801) (which were merged about a month ago).
The birth date of 1738 in lakendorf was part of the original profile Bergen-399 when created by T Pethoud with an Ancestry source. The other profile, Bergen-696, created by Mari-Lyn (Hudson) Harris included no date information, and was only sourced by "529905 Grandma online" (see https://www.grandmaonline.org/GMOL-6b/login.asp) so the date from Bergen-399 was used.
I am not able to check either sources as they are both Subscription only, so I suggest you contact the profile manager, T Pethoud, for further information.
Sorry I cannot be of more help.
Cheers, Margaret
Christine
TANSWELL, MARY ELIZABETH PIKE GRO Reference: 1863 S Quarter in CHRISTCHURCH HANTS Volume 02B Page 523
She married her first cousin Francis Henry Pike.
Oh, just looked for Frank and see that you already have her :)
edited by Monica (Edmunds) Kanellis
Perhaps you can use the updates I made as a guide to adding any further sources you find. I also found looking at how others did tgeir profiles helpul when I first started. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help you. P.S. The help pages are useful, ie. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:How_to_Edit_a_Profile
Thanks, Laura
can i please ask dont you get notice of a pending merge now like we used to get before it is completed thank you Rita
If you are a profile manager, and you propose the merge, as you did on 2 Aug, 2020, then no you don't get an email, only the other profile manager does.
You then have to wait for them to approve it, or until a default approval happens after 30 days.
You don't get an email to tell you if this happens, only once the merge has been completed.
PS. You can view the status of any merges you propose under the Menu item "Find-> Pending Merges-> Pending Merges Initiated by me"
Regards,
Christine
There is a problem however. Sources 8 and 9 don't match. Which one is most likely to be correct?
Bob Loov
Yes, I was not able to solve that mismatch when merging, so I left the death date you appear to have obtained from Ancestry, but also retained the conflicting date/source from the other profile for you to sort out with the other profile manager. Sorry, I can't be of more help. I probably should have put a note in explaining. I was not able to verify either dates, since Ancestry and and source 8 are both subscribed sites I can't access, and when I went to the site for source 9, my searches were not successful. Have you been in contact with the other profile manager? Christine
Thanks. You’ve already been a great help with what you have already done. I will sort this out with the help of the other profile manager.
Bob
edited by Christine Pike
Good to see another Pike descendent joining Wikitree, and adding their family into our global community. Perhaps your tree will connect into other existing family branches. Good luck with your research. Thank you Christine
As long as both are "open" profiles, after the "default approval" time has passed (30 days I think) anyone can complete a merge. Christine
edited by Christine Pike
edited by Thomas Teters
Joshua Rosevear and Eliza Pike are on Familysearch, you may find this link uesful. I have connected Joshua to his parents. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHW3-455
Congratulations on making more than 1,000 contributions to WikiTree for the Month of May. We all appreciate your efforts to make our Shared Tree the best it can be. Keep up the great work and THANK YOU!
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I see we are 5th cousins through our McKeller line. I have given you access to Duncan, our common ancestor per your request. I see only my DNA for comparison. Please consider adding some family members DNA tests to help assist in proving our connection. Drop me a line. Enjoy, and continued happy hunting.