Donna, your basic information is probably sound. The fault will lie with how it was put together into a family tree. Here I must plead guilty to having made a tree many years ago combining the families of the two Johns, using little more than the baptisms and marriages registers of Andreas. It was a trap waiting for anyone to fall into. There was a straight run of children of John Joughin from 1701 to 1720, not an excesive span of childbearing for those days. True, in the middle of it came a marriage of a John Joughin in July 1709, followed by the burial of a John Joughin in August 1709, who, with others named, perished at sea coming from Scotland. That might have been the new husband. It did cause difficulties for the union (marriage still not yet found) of John Joughin and Ann Joughin, apparently an uncle-niece relationship. We have Sue to thank for getting to the bottom of all this during a number of sleepless nights, and putting them into their correct files.

Can you remember who you got your Joughin Andreas family tree from, Donna? If it is an ordinary drop-line tree on A4, except that the siblings run from right to left in descending order of age, that would be mine.

Do you descend from this family?

Philip Allen