Talk:John Jones

I took the marriage information off - it is inaccurate. See the discussion note under Sarah Langdon.

Good catch. I'll update my personal files.

--Seanmcox 21:33, 7 June 2008 (MST)

Parents

I'm not quite ready to declare that Merick and Ann are infact our John's parents, yet. It is clear there is a Meryic and Mary having children at this same time and location - as you have documented. I am curious if Meryic was unfaithful to Mary, or if there is another man with the same name - a cousin? a son? (though the dates don't look likely), ?? The dates for John's birth don't match exactly (though we really don't have an exact birthdate yet). The fact that John named a son Merick certainly creates a likelyhood of the father being named Merick (spelled whichever way). I'm hoping to find a marriage record for one of the marriages that lists the parents - or some other documentation to tie these two Johns together for sure.

I agree that there's still some uncertainty here, but I felt the new information made the picture solid enough that it merited filling in the names that we expect are correct. I didn't quite feel like Meyrick merited a page yet. Once you create a page, it then becomes troublesome if you find out you have the wrong person. As it is, the information will be easy to correct if we find out we have it wrong. This is part of the reason why I put the possible sibling information on the John Jones page. Once we feel comfortable that we have things right, we can start constructing the pages and push things back a bit.

Regarding the possibility that Meyric was unfaithful to his wife, I expect there is no evidence for that here. I found at least one case in your source that made the illegitimacy very explicit. I, personally, expect that the wife's name is "Mary Ann ...". "Mary Ann" is a very common name for some reason.

Seanmcox 19:55, 21 June 2008 (MST)