Are we sure that Robert Sheppard of Jamestown is the son of Robert Sheppard and Elizabeth James? Some online trees show our Robert as the son of a Robert Sheppard and JOAN HOPE of Gloucester, born in Wyck Rissington, Gloucester. Why do some folks think this christening record belongs to our Robert Sheppard of Jamestown?
Seems more likely that the son of Robert Sheppard of Tenterden Kent, and Elizabeth James of Smarden Kent, would have been born in Kent? Is there a birth record in Kent? Or Sussex (ancestral home of the Sheppards of Pesmarsh/Peasmarch)?
