Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Moore or Less

24 March 2014

Moore or Less

William Moore
Birth: 1775 in England
Death: 1781 in Franklin County, North Carolina, USA

PARENTS
John Moore (1686 in Colony of Virginia - 1753 in Colony of Virginia)
Tabitha Pace (1714 in Colony of North Carolina - 1753)

SPOUSE & CHILDREN
Ann Nancy Lanier (1749-1833) married in 1768 and 1780
✿ John Moore, b. in South Carolina, USA
✿ Moses Moore, b. in South Carolina, USA
✿ Thomas Moore, b. in South Carolina, USA
✿ Edward Moore, b. 1769, b. in Colony of South Carolina
✿ William Moore II, b. 1775, b. in Colony of North Carolina
✿ Aaron Moore, b. 1781 in England

ONLY RECORD ATTACHED
U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
William Moore, born abt 1763, arrival year: 1765

Let me get this straight. William was born to parents who, if they had lived, would have been 89 and 61 years old. He married a woman, twice, who was 26 years his senior. One of the marriages occurred before he was born, the other when he was five. That makes sense since he also fathered a child before his own birth. Of course that was his second birth since he immigrated 2 years after his first birth.
Like most examples on this blog I could have my pick of profiles from this tree. Son Aaron has a child born in 1782 and wife Ann is a bigamist with two children sired by another man in 1775. She married him in 1781, a year after her second marriage to William.
How does this ridiculousness escape the notice of the tree owner?

Thanks to Kristin for the link to this profile ;-)

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Researching our family histories we are bound to make mistakes. Hopefully we are quick to correct them. Unfortunately some people refuse to read or think before adding information to their family trees. Some trees have been abandoned so the errors are there for eternity. Here we will laugh, mock and shake our heads at the carelessness, stupidity and/or ignorance of those errors.
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