I bought a will today of a distant relative, hoping to fill in more of the descendants of my ancestors. The will did confirm her parentage: her mother was Mary Brook. It mentioned her aunts Elizabeth and Ann Brook. Just one problem: I haven't got Elizabeth mentioned among her grandparent's children.
No problem, I thought, the baptism may have been missed.
Then I realised that another couple in my tree do have both an Elizabeth and an Ann. The problem is that that couple's daughter Mary is (I thought) my direct ancestor, the wife of my ancestor George Tickle.
So, now I'm wondering if I got my marriages mixed up, and maybe the Mary I thought had married George Tickle had instead married Richard Phillips, meaning that I no longer know who the parents of my direct ancestress Mary are, though I'm still quite sure (I hope) that she's part of the family I've been researching (a witness at her marriage was a man who married into another branch of the family).
:(
No problem, I thought, the baptism may have been missed.
Then I realised that another couple in my tree do have both an Elizabeth and an Ann. The problem is that that couple's daughter Mary is (I thought) my direct ancestor, the wife of my ancestor George Tickle.
So, now I'm wondering if I got my marriages mixed up, and maybe the Mary I thought had married George Tickle had instead married Richard Phillips, meaning that I no longer know who the parents of my direct ancestress Mary are, though I'm still quite sure (I hope) that she's part of the family I've been researching (a witness at her marriage was a man who married into another branch of the family).
:(
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