Richard Law - Birthdate

Started by Donald L. Woolley on Friday, August 30, 2013
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8/30/2013 at 9:57 PM

I'm guessing that he was born before 1638. More like 1608?

8/30/2013 at 10:49 PM

Richard Law's DOB on the profile you started this discussion from shows as 1584.
Who is it you think was born in 1608?

9/1/2013 at 2:05 PM

I'm sorry, its his son Jonathon that shows the impossible birthdate of 1638. Jonathon's daughter Abigail born a year before him, 1637. Jonathon Law, Sr., shown as his son, is also born in 1637. The true father of Jonathon Law, Sr., Abigail, and Sarah, needs to be born before them. His wife Margaret was born in 1607, 31 years before him.

9/1/2013 at 5:15 PM

Private User, Hatte Blejer

Donald makes a good point.

Richard Law is one year younger than two of his children.

9/2/2013 at 12:28 PM

Thanks for the heads upAlex Moes.

I agree absolutely with Donald, I'll see if Families of Early Milford has approximate birthdates. This is a profile I MPed as a merge guide due to it being an early immigrant and settler and there being multiple duplicates merged in. There may not be evidence for his birthdate, but we can do better than what seems to have been inherited from one or more of the duplicates!

9/2/2013 at 12:37 PM

Still checking. It looks like the problem is with both Richard and his son Jonathan

http://www.ctgenweb.org/county/cofairfield/pages/stamford/law_data.htm

Richard Law 1607 -1687 m. Margaret Kilbourne
Jonathan Law 1637 - 1711 m. Sarah Clark (sister Abigail 1627 - bef. 1637 and sister Abigail 1737 - 1712)
Jonathan Law 1672 - 1750

9/2/2013 at 12:49 PM

Okay. I was curating Richard Law because Jonathan Law married Sarah Clark of Milford and there was a confusion between the two George Clarks, now I remember.

I have changed Jonathan's name to Richard -- that was the source of the confusion and could have been my mistake -- and checked the birth and death dates. Both my sources say 1687 but I have left the user-entered more exact date, in case it is a descendant who has better information.

As for the first Richard (father of Richard of Stamford), he is not listed in either of the sources I looked at. Families of Early Milford agrees mostly with the above link and it is usually fairly good although doesn't list either Abigail. I have to check the daughter Sarah who is probably wrong.

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