PAUL WRITES: I have taken a DNA test with Ancestry.co.uk and I have found three DNA matches who mutually match each other and also myself. These three matches descend from two sisters, Lucy Robbins who was baptised in 1813 at Beckington, Somersetshire and Prudence Robbins who was baptised in 1804 also at Beckington. These two sisters had a brother called James Robbins who was baptised at Beckington in 1796 I strongly suspect that this James Robbins is my 5x great-grandfather.
The problem
The problem I have is that the parents of Prudence, Lucy and James are recorded as James Robbins and Sarah. But there are baptisms recorded in 1801 and 1802 at Beckington for children also named James Robbins and the parents' names are also recorded as James and Sarah.
The most logical explanation The most logical explanation I can think of is that the parents are different. There was a James Robbins and his wife Ann also living at
Beckington in this time period. They were definitely confused with James and Sarah on
