Dear Michael, This research came from the BP2000 L-005 file sent to me from Ray or Mike. I do not know the Law about marrying sisters you speak of in England, but I do know that brothers married sisters and one man could marry one lady and then after divorce or death marry her sister here in the USA. What I am trying to decifer here is wether or not the William Tate (I) (Father) and William Tate (II) (Son) were the same person... The record they sent me does not have William (I) connected to William (II). just the notes that William Tate who married Mary Beaty is the father of William Tate who married Jane Beaty. If, in fact, they are father and son.. Then WHO is William Tate (II)'s mother? Can I link The father and son in my file, under Mary Beaty as mother? That does not make since..William (II) would be way to young to marry Jane Beaty, Mary beaty's sister... I think that William (I) either married prior to Mary Beaty, and had William (II) or William (I) and William (II) are the same person. But I need the powers that be...(This list) to make a descion. Since I did not do this resaerch I don't want to just connect William Tate (I) to William Tate (II) under a first wife (unknown) if some one knows the answer... Or if an error was made and they are the same person... Your comments are interesting and will help me with my English research... As I am currently researching some of my English surnames. Thank you Nelda Nelda L. Percival nee Gilpin, IBSSG Beatty descendant line #005 Beaty collateral line #10 Graves descendant line #231 Digin up bones at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ _________________________________________________________________ Click, drag and drop. My MSN is the simple way to design your homepage. http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200364ave/direct/01/
Well, my thought was that if this law applied in that particular U.S. jurisdiction in the 18th cen, that would make the two Williams unlikely to be the same person. However, if the law didn't exist, that reasoning would go out the window. The law went extinct in Britain in the 19th cen - legislated away I think- and undoubtedly would have vanished same way here in any states that applied it. (It was a messy law, lots of people attempted to get around it by going abroad and etc.) Michal "Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, by these we reach divinity." John Donne