I do have the 1664 marriage jotted down and several others I have collected. But there is so much circumstantial documentation that Joan Coats/Clemson was originally a Sisom that if the 1664 marriage is hers - then Coats may have been her second marriage (as the name is listed as Joane Robinson) which would make her even older than previously calculated. I would not be surprised to learn that Joan Coats/Clemson's previous husband had been named John Coats and that they are documented with a son named William born 1679 (and Thomas b. 1682, John b. 1684, etc) - but I truly think that it will be from a marriage later than 1664. As you say the early records are scarce and we will have to wait and see what appears in the future to help clear up this connection. Thanks for the additional Clemson family details, Susan Charlotte Coats wrote: > Yes, I agree, I always like at least 3 different references...but when > you get back into these really early dates...boy the records get > really scarce....so this would be one of the *keep in mind* maybes.....:) > > > > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: Susan McIntyre <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: FW: Re: [COATES-L] RE: [Coates_Coate_Coats] My Coates > Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 23:22:34 -0400 > > I have noticed the 1664 marriage of John Coats & Joane Robinson listed > in (I think) the Ancestry.com database and in an online tree. But I > think it may be the marriage of a different couple than are being > discussed here. If the James Clemson information is correct then he > was born in 1654. If the Joan Coats that Clemson married is the widow > of the John Coats listed in the 1664 marriage then she would likely > have been born between 1644-1649 (assuming she was 15-20 yrs. old when > married). James Clemson would have been 10 years old at the time Joan > married John Coats. That would mean she was in her 70s when she > married James Clemson between 1716-1718 (in 1716 he listed wife named > Sarah - in his 1718 will he is aged 64 and his wife is named as Joan) > - not impossible but highly unlikely. > > According the the Clemson information you shared with the list earlier > today James Clemson's first marriage was in 1682 to Katherine / by > 1716 to Sarah / by 1718 to Joan. The shared data lists his children > born between 1685 to around 1705. > > I would be very cautious in accepting the 1664 marriage as that of the > Clemson connection without additional documentation. > > >