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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Source:Essex Genealogist (Massachusetts) (Essex Society of Genealogists), Vol. 15, p. 15, shows two sons named Joseph, one b. 24 Dec 164- [suggested by attached comments to be 1642, and d. 1644] and one b. 1645, d. 14 Apr 1646. Reading VRs, p. 172, show a birth of Joseph, s. of Thomas, Dec. 24, 164-, citing Middlesex County Returns, and p. 549, death of Joseph, s. of Thomas, Apr. 14, 1646, citing the same source.
Why this single birth and death pair suggests there are two sons named Joseph is not explained, except by relying on traditional secondary sources, like Source:Eaton, Lilley. Genealogical History of the Town of Reading, Mass, p. 100 which lists among the children of Dea. Thomas Parker: "Joseph, b. 1642, and d. soon; Joseph, b. 1645, and d. soon". Also, Source:Parker, Theodore. Genealogy and Biographical Notes of John Parker of Lexington and His Descendants, p. 29, lists among the children: "Joseph Parker, b. 1642; d. 1644." and "Joseph Parker, b. 1645; d. 1646." Certainly there is room between the birth of John, thought (i.e., estimated only, not based on record, or even age at death) to be born about 1640 and Mary, recorded in 1647, to have two sons named Joseph, but the lack of specific dates, the non-reference to the records that are known, and the inability to find records to support this, makes it suspect.
The Reading VRs, p. 173, show birth of Mary on "Dec. 12, 1647", and also on "Mar. 11, 164-", the second coming from Middlesex County Returns. These two births somehow do not convince people there were two daughters named Mary (the Essex Genealogist listing them as alternate birth dates for one person), even though less evidence is justification for two Josephs? Besides the inconsistency of handling, the other issue is that having two daughters named Mary born in this timeframe would not make it easy to squeeze in two sons named Joseph. Either the traditional information about this family is confused, and probably incorrect, or else there is a significant source of information that hasn't been passed on to us, and needs to be, to make sense of the Reading VRs.
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