Person talk:Joanna Faxon (2)

Need sources [17 February 2010]

The gap presented on this page between a birth in 1621/22 and a baptism in 1628 is very unlikely and to gain any credibility needs to be supported by sources explaining such an odd circumstance.

Given that English records typically did not record births, only baptisms, this means that usually births for people born in England are estimated based on age at death. So one would expect that the birth date is imprecise and the baptism date is exact. We have the opposite, which suggests the birth date may be a miscommunicated baptism date, and the birth date may be estimate based on some other (uncited) fact. The lack of agreement suggests at least one is the wrong person, but we have no way of analyzing this, since a source is not cited. Further, the death date here is incorrect. "16 OCT 1694" is the death date of Joanna (Morse) Fisher, the 2nd of 4 wives of Josiah Fisher. So whatever part the death date may have played in estimating the birth date, if any, would have generated incorrect results.

The widow of Anthony Fisher married (2) George Barber, and died in 1719 as Mrs. Joane Fisher. --Jrich 10:52, 17 February 2010 (EST)

While I don't have ready access at the moment, check the article by Leslie Mahler, FASG in TAG Vol 74 No 1 p 41- 47.--Scot 13:40, 17 February 2010 (EST)

I think you mean Clifford L. Stott. Title: The England Origin of Thomas Faxon of Braintree. --Jrich 20:30, 17 February 2010 (EST)