Person:Betsey Child (1)

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Betsey Child
b.Cal 8 Feb 1784 Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
d.11 May 1871 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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  • H.  Aaron Draper1761 - Aft 1830
  • W.  Betsey ChildCal 1784 - 1871
m. Aft 12 Oct 1814
  1. Moses Draper1815 - 1891
  2. Aaron Draper1818 - 1883
  3. Mary Draper1819 -
  4. Lucy Draper1822 - 1891
  5. Lydia Ann Draper1824 - 1902
  6. Maria Elizabeth Draper1829 - 1911
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Name[2] Betsey Child
Gender Female
Birth[1] Cal 8 Feb 1784 Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Aft 12 Oct 1814 Dover, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United StatesIntentions
to Aaron Draper
Death[1] 11 May 1871 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Massachusetts, United States. Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915
    [1].

    Deaths Registered in the City of Boston for the Year eighteen hundred and seventy-one
    No.: 2027
    Date of Death: May 11 [1871]
    Name: Betsey Draper / mn. Childs
    Sex: F.
    Condition: W.
    Age: 87 y. 3 m. 3 d. [birth calculates to about 8 Feb 1784]
    Cause: Rhematic Fever / Old Age
    Place of Residence/Burial: 10 Rochester Boston / (Dover)
    Occupation: [blank]
    Birthplace: Westminster
    Parents: Joseph / Mary
    Birthplaces of Parents: Unknown / Unknown

  2. ↑ No birth record is found in Westminster VRs (in fact no birth is listed for any person under the name Draper) nor is Joseph Draper or his family mentioned in Source:Heywood, William Sweetzer. History of Westminster, Massachusetts : (First Named Narragansett No. 2) from the Date of the Original Grant of the. There is a Joseph and Mary Draper of Dedham, but they have a daughter named Hannah in 1784, and then the father apparently remarries to a wife named Sarah before 1787 when they have a son named Daniel, so they seem to be ruled out. Source:Draper, Thomas Waln-Morgan. Drapers in America, p. 169, gives Aaron only one wife (Martha Little) and gives all five children to her even though she would have been over 50 for every birth, never mentioning Betsey, and so clearly is no help. Source:Child, Elias. Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe Families does not show any person marrying Aaron Draper and the most likely Betsey is shown to marry Aaron Rhodes, which appears to be confirmed by record and subsequent birth of a child. Find A Grave shows knowledge of the death record, but can add nothing (such as the identity of the mother Mary named in the death record) and draws several demonstrably incorrect or questionable conclusions, including that the youngest child of Aaron and Betsey was the only one that grew to adulthood even though it can be shown five children did, and that she is buried in a particular cemetery even though no gravestone can be found.
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