Person talk:Hannah Unknown (637)

No evidence that her maiden name was Whitcomb [26 October 2015]

Cutter's New England Families, Vol. 3, p. 1359, says her names is "Hannah ---".

Ancestry of John Barber White, p. 57, says her name is "Hannah ---".

Holman's Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens, p. 90, says her name is Hannah ---.

Tingley's Ancestral Lines of Guilford Solon Tingley and His Wife, p. 425, says her name is Hannah ---.

Just to pick the first four I could find. Not to mention other sources such as the source cited on the page already.

Several of these cited sources give the marriage date, meaning they saw the marriage record, and recognize that "Jonathan and Hannah Whitcombe" in the marriage record refers to the couple after they were married. It turns out that the Lancaster records have several examples of this same phenomenon, including all of the other records in the same block of records on p. 13. If the wife's maiden is present in those records, it is in brackets, and only there because the compiler, Mr. Nourse, added it based on his research, and not because it was recorded in the record. Otherwise, not a single record in that block of records has the wife's maiden name recorded.

As always, the procedure for changing existing data to something else, should always include citing a source of equal or better quality that what is already cited, to support your change. --Jrich 00:52, 27 October 2015 (UTC)