| Introduction |
| George Partridge, immigrant to Duxbury, Mass, is NOT the son of Ralph Partridge, another immigrant to Duxbury, Mass! |
| Joseph Richardson did NOT marry Hannah Green, daughter of William Green of Woburn! (Companion myth: Thomas Knowlton did not marry Hannah Green, daughter of Thomas Green of Malden, Mass) |
| Patience Kemp is NOT the granddaughter of Thomas Thacher / Elizabeth Partridge! |
| The wife of John Goodrich of Wethersfield, Conn was NOT the daughter of Thomas Edwards of Wethersfield, Conn. - her identity is unknown. |
| The Mary Bacon who married John Lakin was NOT the daughter of Michael Bacon and Susanna (Richardson). She was the sister of that Michael, daughter of Michael Bacon and Marie (some say Jobo). |
| Susanna Skelton was NOT the mother of the first three Children of John Marsh - Donald Linus Jacobus in the Granbury Genealogy, 1945, presents a convincing argument that John Marsh was married first to an unknown woman abt 1637, and she mothered his first three children. |
| Henry Pierson, of Southampton, Long Island DID NOT marry Mary Cooper, daughter of John and Wibroe (Griggs) Cooper. He was the STEP-SON of John Cooper and the son of Wibroe (Griggs) Pierson Cooper from a first marriage. |
I have noticed that in Ancestral file and in web genealogies there are certain errors being repeated that we should all try to stomp out. These errors become particularly relevant to New England ancestors, because they are ancestors to so many more folks simply because they've been around longer.
I have now started a Research Resources, Notes, and Questions page
on each of my surnames, with the hope of first eliminating errors, and
to further awareness and discussion of other questionable parts of our
genealogies that are sometimes taken for granted to be true, but that have
a shadow of doubt hanging over them. In fact, it's more fun to deal with
these questions, I find.
These are some of the errors that I've noticed, with references
to the particular page on my site where I discuss the reasons for the error,
or present the work of others who have proven the correct answer, or disproved
an incorrect one. Many other smaller issues are presented on my Notes and
Questions pages for each surname.
See This Page for a more complete discussion, as well as A Study on Ancestry of George Partridge by Dennis Partridge.
Hale, House bases their conclusion on her age, based on events of her life, primarily documented dates of birth of her children. She is closer to a contemporary of Thomas. Her first -born was born at most only 20 years after Thomas was.
Hale, House offers no clues as to who she was, nor made any comment her being a potential sibling of Thomas.
"The given name of the wives of all three Lakins was Mary, but the surnames of the first two have not been found, and there has been confusion about the identity of Mary Bacon, who married John Lakin. Clarence A. Torrey, who compiled a record of New England marriages prior to 1701, says the wrong woman of this name is given as the wife of John Lakin in Thomas Baldwin's "Bacon Genealogy"; the right one being the Mary Bacon baptized Feb. 18, 1639/40 at Winsted, England; [** add: daughter of Michael and Mary Jobe(?) nmt **], also that she was living in 1701 at Woburn, Mass. Her father and grandfather, both named Michael, came very early to Dedham, Mass., and died there, the father in 1688, when eighty years of age."
This argument is presented by Donald Lines Jacobus in _The Granberry
Family_
(1945), pp. 274-276.
For years, Cooper and Pierson genealogists have carried Henry Pierson, of Southampton, Long Island, New York as married to Mary Cooper and shown her as the matriarch of the Pierson descendants from that immigrant. Thomas Cooper II, in TAG 64:193 Oct 1989 convincingly demonstrates that Henry Pierson was a son of Wibroe Griggs from a previous marriage, and step-son of John Cooper, of Southampton, Long Island, New York. The Mary he married is unknown, and nothing further is known of Mary Cooper, daughter of John Cooper, than her entry on the passenger list when the family migrated to America.
The confusion started with John Cooper referring to Henry Pierson as his son-in-law in his will. In 1600 terminology, son-in-law could have referred to either son-in-law, as we now define the term, or what we now call step-son.
Although there was already evidence of this link before Thomas Cooper's article, the "smoking gun" piece of evidence is an English will, transcribed in the TAG article, where Thomas Cooper, son of John, and Henry Pierson, join together to sell some real estate and describe themselves as brothers from the same mother.
These are the most grievous errors I have found. Please point out these errors wherever you see them. Other questions and notes about my ancestors genealogies are presented in their respective sections of my Family History Pages - either Dad's Side, or Mom's Side.