Person talk:Robert Seeley (2)

Birth and Death conflicts [2 August 2010]

I notice that some 'corrections' were made to the record of Robert Seeley. I should have cited my sources when I made my changes, but I plan on loading a GEDCOM later this year and that would have supplied the sources.

It would appear that the changes you made are not based on the latest research - see the information I found in Great Migration Begins, below.

Great Migration Begins says about Robert Seeley (p. 1647ff):

'BIRTH: Baptized St. Johns, Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, 4 July 1602, son of William and Grace (Prett) Seeley [Seeley Anc 6]. (Alan Phipps demonstrated that an earlier claim for the baptism of the immigrant, in another parish in the same county, was a misreading of an entry for a person of another surname [NEHGR 116:160, 164; Seeley Anc 1-2].)'

I assume the argument by Alan Phipps is in the Seeley Ancestry (which I have not reviewed myself), as the NEHGR article has (I assume from my reading of GMB) the incorrect information.

Great Migration Begins also says:

'DEATH: By 17 October 1668 (when his widow applied for administration on his estate). (Fanjoy and Ward state that "Robert Seeley died intestate Oct[ober] 1667, and in Oct[ober] 1667, the General Court of Connecticutt abated the widow's vote [sic] `for last yeare and this yeare'" [Seeley Anc 24]; this error derives from a misreading and misapplication of a record of 18 October 1677 in which the Court granted "the widow of Captain Seely about thirty-three shillings due from her for her country rate last year, and her rate this year," an entry pertaining to the widow of Nathaniel Seeley, who had been killed during King Philip's War [CCCR 2:327].)'

Please review the above information, and if you find it satisfactory, please change the informtion on Robert Seeley's page accordingly. Or keep the discussion going if you have other information. Thanks.--DataAnalyst 11:40, 2 August 2010 (EDT)

I copied this to the talk page of the person, since everyone who is subscribed to the page is alerted when the talk page of that person changes, and since this is discussion about a person's stats, it belongs on said person's talk page.

I added back the deleted stats because no sources were listed. I believe in listing as many discrepancies as possible, until something is disproven, and then listing it as disproven, in order to flesh out the facts. Therefore, I will be leaving the possibly incorrect information, with a note to see the talk page. If others want to change it, they can do so. The Seeley's are not one of my main research families. --Obstinatesnooper 20:23, 2 August 2010 (EDT)