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"Information on family trees such as ancestry.com are riddled with errors. The alternative death date given above appears nowhere in any contemporary record."
While this may very well be true - don't you think you should substantiate it? What does "riddled with errors" mean? Also, how can you say - appears nowhere in ANY contemporary record? Perhaps it doesn't appear in any of a set of contemporary records that you can enumerate, or in the commonly accepted sources for this family - but that's not at all the same as "nowhere in any".
We need to deal head-on with weak source material from ancestry and other places - it's going to arrive with lots of GEDCOMs - the best way to handle it is to accept it but notate in detail what the problems are, why it isn't trusted for a particular person, etc.
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