I have Lois Wise, born 12 Jul 1703 in Middletown or Hartford, Connecticut, as the result of a test tube experiment, married Michael Burnham 16 Sep 1728 in Hartford or Middletown. Alternatively to being the product of a test tube experiment, I ahve vaguely that she was the daughter of John Wise and Catherine and nothing else. I found some reason to suspect that Lois Wise who married Michael Burnham may have been born 50 years or so earlier than Lois Wise the daughter of John and Catherine. Specifically a John Wise is known to have married a Catherine in the 1750's, and Ancestry.com's abstract of an index of the Middletown records show they had a daughter named Lois born 12 Jul 1753. I don't yet know if that is Ancestry.com's or an index's mistake. Lois was an unusal name in that time, Wise was an unusual name in New England in that time, and I wonder how many Lois Wise's there can have been. Does anyone please have more information? Can't have been alot of Wise's around in 17th century New England, since it's a German name; were they all descended from a Joseph Wise of Essex County, Massachusetts? Is there any complete genealogy of that family? Half of Joseph's descendants fall off the planet in the 3rd generation, having seemingly followed a Rev. John or else a Mather inlaw to Heaven. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [email protected] -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.6/1360 - Release Date: 4/4/2008 6:02 PM