This is typical of the rubbish found on many trees published on the Web. I would advise trying to substantiate every 'fact' shown there and consigning any you can't to the garbage. Regards, John Moore On 21 July 2016 at 18:38, PMR via <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings Listers > > > > I have found a couple of BROWN Trees on Family Search, with > some > of the information coinciding with some that I have for my BROWN ancestors > in Devon. > > > > I have a record that Ellyn BAKER (born cir 1520) married John > BROWN in Barnstaple in January 1541(2), with twins John and Mary baptised > in > the same Church in February, and son Thomas in April 1543. > > > > However, on the FS Trees, it lists Ellyn as being married to > Thomas BAKER, not John. Both John and Thomas, listed with births in 1504 > and > 1515 respectively, are listed as sons of Robert BAKER (1473-1513 ie 2 years > before Thomas's listed birth year) and Ann GARDINER. New info I thought - > great (for a start)! But now I'm doubtful. > > > > Apart from the anomaly of Thomas's birth year and his father's > death year, Ann's ancestry as given is a bit hard to comprehend as well. > She > is listed as having been born in 1475 (which fits OK) but to a Thomas > GARDINER who died in 1449, 26 years beforehand. TG also has a listed child > born 1449 which is OK, but another born in 1495 - 46 years after his death. > > > > If the 'inputter' of this Tree is reading this, I would like to > make contact - we may be related - to find out sources for the early dates. > Are there some sources somewhere that I haven't heard about? > > > > Many thanks > > > > Cheers > > > > Pam > > Beaudesert, Queensland, Australia > > > > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >