John CALLANT

My Great Great Great Grandfather
DNA Matched

It was a combination of DNA and a helpful census return that enabled me to discover my hitherto hidden 3 x Great Grandfather. He went unnamed on Julia Ann Jervis' birth certificate, but on the 1841 census, her mother (Mary Jervis) can be found on the same page as John's future wife Margaret Liversage. With Julia being born in 1845, and John marrying Margaret in 1846, that suggests he was very much in the right place at the right time. He and Margaret emigrated to the USA in 1850.