Person talk:Elizabeth Thompson (113)

evidence? [13 April 2014]

I see it stated lots of places that John Darling married Elizabeth Thompson but I don't see anywhere the reason why people believe that is so, much less that she belongs to the family of John and Thankful Thompson. Since there is no marriage record, no record of the birth of Elizabeth in Braintree, Mendon, or elsewhere that I can tell, and she is not included in this family in several sources covering it (and when she is, only as wife of John Darling and not because any inherent link to the family is documented), there must be something that makes people so confident? I haven't been able to locate the will of her father, if there was one. From the little bit I can see, Dean Crawford Smith doesn't give any proof, except of her death and birth of her son, which sheds no light on what her maiden name is. --Jrich 17:16, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

I have nothing to offer, as I was taking Dean Crawford Smith's word (recognizing the lack of citation). Smith does not place Elizabeth Thompson in any family (at least not on page 1:289). --DataAnalyst 02:39, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. BTW, one of the sources that doesn't show Elizabeth in the family, by a fairly respected genealogist, is Source:Bartlett, J. Gardner. John Hill of Dorchester, Mass., 1633, p. 55. --Jrich 02:48, 14 April 2014 (UTC)