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Dates? [4 August 2012]
The dates for Mary Farr do not work. It's unlikely she was born in America in 1620, especially if she was not baptized until 1644!
If her mother married at the age of 43 (see dates of birth and of marriage), she certainly did not produce all the children listed. Besides, dates of birth of first several children are well before date of marriage. Etc.--Gunnj 12:37, 22 October 2011 (EDT)
- 16 Feb 1643/44 appears to be when George Farr married his first wife, Ann Whitmore, not Elizabeth. I don't have access to http://www.americanancestors.org, but from what I can gleen from Google snippets, there is no clear definition on which children were born to Ann and which to Elizabeth. --Jennifer (JBS66) 13:35, 22 October 2011 (EDT)
- I'm confused. Who is Ann Whitmore? Anderson's sketch of George Farr in The Great Migration Begins, 3:2077-79, gives George one wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Stowers of Boston and Charlestown. Torrey doesn't give him a second wife either.--jaques1724 23:09, 3 August 2012 (EDT)
- I wish that I had documented where I saw this, but I believe it was along the lines of this, this or this. However, it appears to actually be a mixup of two different Georges. I will defer to your expertise, as I know you are more experienced in research from this area & era than I am.
- "COMPILER'S NOTE: there is error in earlier basic references in which George Farr is confused with a George Farough formerly of Lynn, who married at Ipswich, MA an Ann Whitmore 16 January 1643. That George Farough was of Ipswich, herdkeeper in 1647, and famous killer of foxes, and has been a source of much confusion (NEF:80)(PM:161). More recent sources state that our George Farr married Elizabeth Stower (TM94:259) and their daughter Mary Farr, born at Lynn about 1637, married in 1658 James Mycall; she is our documented line of interest, separating this daughter Mary from George and Ann Whitmore Farough's daughter Mary, mentioned as born in 1644 (PMJ 18:48)(GMB:2078). Both sources clarify and settle the issue." Source: Ancestral profiles for two early settlers of the far West Nathaniel Emmons Bunker and Elizabeth Bridgham Dunning 2000
- "In our sketch of George Farr of Lynn, we erroneously identified his daughter Mary as wife of James Mycall and Joseph Niles [GMB 3:2077-79]. Rogers demonstrates that this Mary Farr married Matthias Farnsworth, and that no parentage can currently be assigned to the Mary Fair who married Mycall and Niles." Great migration newsletter: Volume 8, Issue 1 - Volume 10, Issue 1 Google snippet view --Jennifer (JBS66) 09:09, 4 August 2012 (EDT)
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