Barking Up the Wrong Tree: My Mother, The Zombie III

12 May 2013

My Mother, The Zombie III

Comments after the jump.

Ann Gildersleeve
B: 1596 in England
M: 1615 in Nantucket Hempstead, Livingston, New York to John Natz Smith
D: 1615 in Long Island, Nassau, New York

FATHER
Richard GILDERSLEEVE (1601-1681)
MOTHER
Joanna Appleton (1601-1677)

SPOUSE
John Smith (1626- ) married in NY

SPOUSE & CHILDREN
John Natz Smith (1585-1640)
✿ Mary Smith (1613-1690)
✿ John Rock SMITH (1615-1706) born in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
✿ John Rock Smith (1615-1706) born in England
✿ John Rock Smith (1615-1706) born in Lancaster, Lancashire, England
✿ Elizabeth Smith (1620- )
✿ Samuel Smith (1636-1715) born in Maspeth, Queens, New York
✿ George Smith (1647-1703) born in Hanover, Virginia

ATTACHED SOURCES
✿ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Anne Gildersleeve, female; Spouse John Smith, b. 1626; married NY
✿ Ancestry Family Trees
42 Ancestry Member Trees

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Why yes I think that marriage record makes perfect sense. What's so unusual about a woman getting married 11 years after her death? And having three children born on two continents in the same year? Also a very common occurrence. Happens all the time...on clickophile trees where the laws of time and space don't exist.
Here are some details from the 42 trees attached:

37 have Ann born in 1585
5 have Ann born in 1596
28 have Ann's mother born in 1600 or 1601
7 show both her parents born in 1601
42 trees have her death date as 1615
12 have children born after 1615

Thanks to David for the link to this tree ;-)
If you have a profile to suggest please send a link to buwtree(at)gmail(dot)com.

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