Having finished all of Michael's families you can see that we do not share any American or colonial ancestors. My family is all New England and Michael is all mid-Atlantic and Virginia. (His Carman family starts in Dorchester, Massachusetts but moves pretty quickly to Long Island. So our colonial ancestors were neighbors in Dorchester in the 1630s.)
But we do share medieval ancestors. The closest ancestor that we share, that I can readily discover is Sir Robert Constable (Jr.) and his wife Agnes Wentworth. They lived in the 15th century in Yorkshire, England. Michael and I do also have Irish Catholic ancestry and if I could readily trace that ancestry back to the 1600s, we might share an Irish ancestor. But to date, the closest I can get is 1423-1488. I descend through their daughter Margaret Constable who married Sir William Eure. Michael descends from her sister Anne Constable who married Sir William Tyrwhit. (Michaels descends from two of their children).
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