Last update: January 2021

Anglo Indian families DNA

Samples of DNA from both the Rhine and D'Silva family lines have been tested by www.ancestry.co.uk and uploaded to gedmatch.com

The main results in the table below are from ancestry:

Location Rhine D'Silva
Southern Asia48%39%
West and Central India19%25%
Philippines14%
Ireland and Scotland10%16%
China5%
Sweden6%

Ancestry have suggested quite a few matches with the DNA of other members, most of whom live in USA or Australia , their ancestors having emigrated to USA and Australia in the 18th or 19th centuries.

There matches are:

D'Silva

There are identifiable matches from the unknown parents of brothers Francis, Alfred and Walter to descendants of the three brothers. The ancestry members names for these match are: Bernadette Godfrey, Heather Banby and Anthony Brown

There is a match through Francis D'Silva and an unidentifed relative. The ancestry member name for this match is: EJ Ds

Rhine / Bernard

There are identifiable matches from John Henry Rhine or Emilia Bernard to ancestors of their son, George, and daughter, Ivy, to known ancestry members.

Rhine / Joseph

There is an identifiable match through siblings, Latitia Rhine and John Henry Rhine, to an ancestor of Latitia and her first husband, William Joseph. The ancestry member name for this match is: LYNMCS

Simmonds

There is an identifiable match through William Simmonds and Elizabeth Wheatley via their son, William Simmonds Jnr, and daughter, Mary Ann, to Kathleen D'Silva and an ancestry member with the user Id of Ange Witana.

Charleston

There is an identifiable match through John Charleston and Mary d'Cruz via Ellen Charleston and her brother Charles or Carl to Kathleen D'Silva and an ancestry member with the user Id of Dboyanich.

There is an identifiable match through John Charleston and Mary d'Cruz via Ellen Charleston and her brother John Joseph or Sam to Kathleen D'Silva and an ancestry member with the user Id of ??.

Shedden

There is an identifiable match through Alexander Hall Shedden and Margaret Graham via Christina Shedden and her brother Charles Edward to Kathleen D'Silva and an ancestry member with the user Id of Anil Heendeniya.

Matches have been found between Kathleen D'Silva and ancestry members with the usernames of Anita Pike and Graeme Shedden Adam.
Anita Pike's ancestors can be traced back to a Robert Shedden b. 1794 in Ayrshire, Scotland and Greame's ancestors back to James Adam and Janet Shedden born in Beith, Ayrshire.
These support the family theory that the Shedden family I have been researching may have originated in Scotland.

Graham

There is an identifiable match from William Graham via Margaret Graham and her half Sister, Caroline Martha Graham to Kathleen D'Silva and an ancestry member with the user Id of Susan Kasubeck who is a descendant of the Stone family.


The Ancestry display names covering the Rhine and D'Silva lines are JanetRhine, jackiegraham158 and KD (Kathleen D'Silva)


Diagram Showing potential DNA paths

www.mcskimming.org.uk/rhine

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