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Mark In response toThe will of Andrew Hays (2) does not identify a son Andrew. It possible Andrew the son predeceased his father, or perhaps Andrew (4) should be be attached to a different Andrew. You wrote:
A couple of questions 1. Where does the "Andrew George" come from? None of the items you cite refer to a George Hays, much less an Andrew George Hays. Andrew (4) was born about 1750. Middle names did not come into substantive use until after about 1760, and are not commonplace until about 1790. In most cases, I find that when a person is shown with a trinomial at this early date, that there's a "splice" involved, in which information about two separate persons is being combined. I can't say that its impossible for someone born at this early date to have a trinomial, just that its exceedingly unlikely. On the other hand, if you can show me a record showing that he did indeed have a trinomial---ie, an original source record that gives his name as Andrew George Hays---that would be extremely useful to know about. 2. As your listing shows, there's no dearth of records for a person by the name of Andrew Hays in SW VA, and elsewhere. The question is, is he the son of Andrew (2)? How do we know that? And if he is, why is he not listed in his fathers will?
Thanks Mark. I will have to look at that more closely. I assume that somewhere the full image of this document is available? (you may already have sent it to me.)Q 18:22, 22 August 2014 (UTC) |