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References
- ↑ Sherman, Robert M. (Robert Moody), and Ruth Wilder Sherman. Vital Records of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Warwick, Rhode Island: Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1975)
Vol. 1, p. 333.
Stephen Killey and Thankfull Baker both of Yarmouth entered [intentions] October the 23rd 1773 ...
[See note.]
- ↑ Randall, Eunice Kelley Gidley. David O'Killia the immigrant of Old Yarmouth, Massachusetts with his descendants and allied families, 1652-1962. (Dartmouth, Massachusetts: E.K.G. Randall, 1962)
p. 64.
Stephen Kelley m. ---, 1773 Thankful Baker.
[See note.]
- The marriage on this page is obviously a reflection of the intention found in the Yarmouth VRs.
There is no further record of a Stephen and Thankful Killey.
Randall assigns 9 children to this couple, but searching shows those are 9 of the 10 children born to Stephen Jr. and Sarah "Keley" of Alford, Berkshire, Mass. (the missing one being an earlier Anna, the name getting reused for a later daughter), with the mother explicitly named as Sarah on the birth records of all those children (Alford VRs, p. 13-14) and no obvious reason to think the father is a person from Yarmouth. Actually he appears to not even be a Kelley. Source:Claypool, Edward A. Genealogy of the Descendants of William Kelsey (as well as various PRFs) identifies this couple as Stephen Kelsey and Sarah Averill. Keley and Kelcy are hard to distinguish in handwriting, as the 1790 census of Alford shows (Stephen in left column, 7th from both). Unlike the VRs, which used "Keley", the census was indexed as "Kelcy". The number of children in the house, 4 sons, 3 daughters, husband and wife, exactly matches what we would expect in 1790 per the Alford VRs for Stephen and Sarah (twins Lucy and the first Anna died as infants, Philander not born until 1791). The son Philander that Randall shows for Stephen and Thankful, is Rev. Philander Kelsey of Ohio (shown here in 1850 census with a birth in 1791 in Massachusetts).
It is further of interest that Randall shows Stephen Killey, father of Thankful's alleged husband, marrying as a second wife Lydia Garey in 1770 and having a son Stephen in 1777, even though he already had a son Stephen who was still living. There is no death date of the father's first wife, and the children born to Stephen and Lydia in Norton would have been when he was 59 and 61. Thus, this marriage seems very questionable, and it seems very likely that it was the son Stephen who married Lydia Garey, further suggesting he did not marry Thankful Baker. It would not be startling to find out that Thankful Baker is the father's second wife (speculating), marrying a widow Thankful Baker (she is not actually identified yet, but note: Thankful Baker, b. 6 Dec 1719 to William and Mary Baker - making her nearly the same age as the father Stephen Killey, m. 1743 David Baker who d. 1768, so available to marry, and named Thankful Baker, in 1773) after his first wife Thankful Chase died (which is not proven yet).
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