Person talk:Isaac Child (4)

Birth/baptism [22 May 2016]

I removed birth of 5 Mar 1700/1, and unsource baptism of 24 Mar 1704/05. I can find no evidence of either. Regarding the birth date, although it is given by the Child Genealogy for Isaac, s/o Joseph [#4551], it is not found in the records, and curiously a baptism on 5 Mar is found for the s/o Joseph, but in 1698/99 (the only recorded mention of Isaac Child in the time period 1695-1705). So this appears to be an error by the author. The baptism of 24 Mar date also comes from the Child Genealogy but is for a different Isaac Child, s/o John [#4741], so it is simply discarded as an input error.. Source:Bond, Henry. Family Memorials. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston (1855), p. 156, gives birth of 5 Mar 1699-1700, which doesn't match either the recorded baptism or the date given by Elias Child, but appears to be a misinterpretation of the recorded baptism. --Jrich 02:52, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Death Date [22 May 2016]

I erased the unsourced death date of 16 Feb 1789. It appears to be completely bogus, a mixture of two other dates. The Child Genealogy gives a death date of 7 Feb 1789 for the son of Joseph (p. 497, #4551). It gives the death date of 16 Feb 1788 for the son of John (#4741, p. 545). Bond, p. 156 and 154 respectively, says the same thing, and for all we know, Elias Child probably copied Bond. No probate file is found for either one to match date against heirs. According to Waltham records, only the 1789 death is recorded, and the age of 83 matches the son of John, but is several years off from the age of the son of Joseph. The 1788 death does not appear to be recorded in any town. While common sense might suggest the 1789 date belongs to the son of John, without knowing how the 1788 date came to be known, it would be reckless to say it belongs to the son of Joseph. It may be that nobody died on that date, or that it is a corruption of the other date, or that it represents the last day he was known to be alive. --Jrich 03:42, 23 May 2016 (UTC)