Merry
06-07-12, 12:36
Nothing to add to BK6 from this thread
Following adding my ToGG4 thread this morning I was reminded of a problem with the death and burial detals for the wife of my 4xg-grandfather, Thomas Buck.
Thomas died in 1826 aged 90, according to his memorial inscription, and this matches other info I have about him.
The gravestone names two other people, one is a child (granddaughter of Thomas) who died in 1814, everything matches well for her too. The other person is Thomas's wife, Mary. The gravestone says she died on 8th Jan 1807, but that's not right as she died in 1813! The interesting bit is that her sister-in-law, also Mary Buck (wife of Thomas's brother, Henry), DID die on 8th Jan 1807. At first I thought, fair enough, the gravestone was erected at least 13 years after Mary's death - perhaps many more years later - and someone has looked for her burial and found the wrong one. However, that doesn't really work either as the burial on 14th Jan 1807 doesn't give the date of death - the only place that shows up is with the will of the Mary who died in 1807, but the will is clearly not for the wife of Thomas as 1) she says she is a widow and, though Henry was dead by 1807, Thomas was alive and 2) the children named in the will are all the children of Henry and Mary and not the children of Thomas and Mary!!
So, whoever erected the gravestone was confused anough to get the wrong Mary, but efficient enough to know the exact date of death. Very curious.
In this case perhaps it doesn't make a great deal of difference as had I only had the stone to go on I would just have my Mary dying at the wrong date which wouldn't affect the rest of my research, but imagine if it was critical - what if the wrong date had been within Mary's child-bearing years and it appeared she had died before all her family had been born? I might have spent forever looking for records to back up something that never happened!!!
*observes glazed-eyed audience*
*creeps away from thread*
Following adding my ToGG4 thread this morning I was reminded of a problem with the death and burial detals for the wife of my 4xg-grandfather, Thomas Buck.
Thomas died in 1826 aged 90, according to his memorial inscription, and this matches other info I have about him.
The gravestone names two other people, one is a child (granddaughter of Thomas) who died in 1814, everything matches well for her too. The other person is Thomas's wife, Mary. The gravestone says she died on 8th Jan 1807, but that's not right as she died in 1813! The interesting bit is that her sister-in-law, also Mary Buck (wife of Thomas's brother, Henry), DID die on 8th Jan 1807. At first I thought, fair enough, the gravestone was erected at least 13 years after Mary's death - perhaps many more years later - and someone has looked for her burial and found the wrong one. However, that doesn't really work either as the burial on 14th Jan 1807 doesn't give the date of death - the only place that shows up is with the will of the Mary who died in 1807, but the will is clearly not for the wife of Thomas as 1) she says she is a widow and, though Henry was dead by 1807, Thomas was alive and 2) the children named in the will are all the children of Henry and Mary and not the children of Thomas and Mary!!
So, whoever erected the gravestone was confused anough to get the wrong Mary, but efficient enough to know the exact date of death. Very curious.
In this case perhaps it doesn't make a great deal of difference as had I only had the stone to go on I would just have my Mary dying at the wrong date which wouldn't affect the rest of my research, but imagine if it was critical - what if the wrong date had been within Mary's child-bearing years and it appeared she had died before all her family had been born? I might have spent forever looking for records to back up something that never happened!!!
*observes glazed-eyed audience*
*creeps away from thread*