Shirley, Thanks, this surely fits MUCH better with the records I KNOW to be accurate, and others that "appear" to be "fairly" accurate. :-) Cheers, Jared > Hi Jared & Jerry, > > Jared's right... I didn't look at the individual files closely enough... > just concentrated > on names of Catherine's parents. > > Relooking at the research on new.FamSearch... What's taking place is > that > all of the > records are gathered (good, bad & the impossible! ) :>) for that one > person > and placed in one file so that everything is shown at once - the varying > birth > dates, places, etc. - so that the records can be edited (but not changed > from their original form) > and the correct information inserted. > > Now that I'm awake, I do see what you're saying with the marriage of > Mordecai Starkey > & Mary Ackerly. There is a marriage date of 1797 Gagetown (along with all > of the "about" > and "before" dates). So checking the file for their son James Starkey, I > realized that I > had taken his dates of 1778-1869 from what was in front of me and did not > go > into his > file to see what else was in there for information. > > I now find that one of the persons who had submitted the information on > James & his siblings was 20 > years off on quite a few of the children and had calculated the births > based > what he thought the > age of the father, Mordeca was. So as well as the old record of c1778 for > James, there is > also the birth date of 13 Jun 1801 Cody, Queens Co. - which goes with what > you > found, Jared, for approx. age for James on the 1861 census. > > As for James's parents, Mordecai is shown with everything from a definite > date of 04 July > 1756 New Jersey to bef 1795 of Queens Co. NB. Mary Ackerley's birth is > shown from > 1768 to 23 Mar 1772 New York to 1795 of Queens NB. > > The files are just waiting for someone to go in and edit them with the > correct information. > > Catherine Carlisle's records, on the other hand, are not so all over the > place. > Kate Carlyle is also shown; birth date 1807 to May 1807; born NB to of > Johnston, Queens Co. > NB; died 1890 to Feb 1890; bur Coles Island, Queens, NB. > > Her parents have only had one submission for records - this doesn't mean > that they're right, > it just means that this is what someone has found or calculated so far: > Robert Carlisle born abt 1782, of Queens Co., NB > Elizabeth Lambert born abt 1786, of Queens Co., NB > > Thanks, Jared. > > Shirley > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Jared Handspicker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hmmm.... not sure I can agree with the FamSearch listing. Though I >> can't >> dispute the Carlisle parents, the dates for James are incorrect. This >> is >> not the James b. 1778. He did died in 1869, but this is James A. >> Starkey, >> b. @1801 (see Johnston Parish census, 1861, aged 60). Also, his >> parents, >> Mordecai Starkey and Mary Ballentine Ackerly/Akerly, were not married >> until 27-Apr-1797 (Gagetown Anglican). At the time, Mary was just 17, >> with her birthdate being 23-Mar-1772, in New York. If this presumption >> on >> FamSearch record were correct, then Mary Ackerly could NOT be mother of >> James Starkey. Given that Mordecai was b. @1756, perhaps and argument >> COULD be made for an earlier wife? >> >> >> >> >> >> > ------------------------ Jared "Jed" Handspicker [email protected] "It's a dog eat dog world, and I have Milkbone underwear." (Norm - Cheers)