Debbie, Thank you for this. You may well be right - the coincidence of "Miles" as a second Christian name is very strong! I realise that IGI is very unreliable but it is at least a starting-point! Thank you also for the NZ contact. Gordon Smith (8479) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deborah Montgomerie" <ifm@whidbey.net> To: "'Gordon Smith'" <sativushouse@yahoo.co.uk>; <SFHG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:54 PM Subject: RE: [SFHG] Harman > Hi Gordon, > > I took a look for you and I see that both records in the IGI were put > there > by a member of the LDS church. Any time you see that it means that the > source could be unreliable. The info did not come from a parish register. > Members of the LDS church are encouraged to give family members names as > part of sealings for the dead. The info could have come from a family > bible > or be just family hearsay and you may be relying on people's memories. > > Perhaps the record that Jackie found is the correct one and the couple > didn't get married until much later on. It does sound as if Kate/Kitty > Miles was the mother of John but perhaps John and Kate were not married > when > he was born. 20 years before deciding to get married was not unheard of > :-) > > Debbie > > -----Original Message----- > From: sfhg-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sfhg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf > Of Gordon Smith > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:44 AM > To: SFHG-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [SFHG] Harman > > To the list: > > I would be grateful for help and/or advice. My 3Ggrandfather, John Miles > Harman (born about 1767), is said (by IGI) to be the son of John Harman > and > Kate Miles, and indeed IGI also shows the elder John Harman as the spouse > of > Kate Miles. However, neither familysearch nor SMI has a marriage between a > John Harman and a Kate Miles; IGI shows marriages with an Abigail Gunn or > a > Rose Mary Moore at the appropriate time but the use of "Miles" as a second > Christian name is strong evidence that John Miles Harman was indeed the > son > of Kate Miles. I would be grateful for suggestions as to how I can solve > this. > > Gordon Smith (8479) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SFHG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in > the subject and the body of the message > >