John Alexander Saunders - Top of the Saunders tree -- Do we have evidence?

Appreciate your effort on this line. You probably know the Master Profiles are attempts (hopefully successful) in making the uploaded dups into one, and do not speak to source info.

Oh, I never thought otherwise! There are Masters for all sorts of reasons!

Looking forward to the discussion, though.

This isn''t the kind of Web Tree Medieval Stuff where I say, oh no! This name was not used until 1610! and the like. Well, except for Aricola. No. Just no. (Though I can see a whole line of Fake Medieval Names We Created Out Of People's Professions. Nauta! Hortula! Textor!)

But it's still a lot of stuff that needs to get figured out.

“Textor” should be revived as a first name. :)

that's what I thought, too.

Perhaps for a superhero.

You know, for somebody whose special superpower is really quickly weaving embroideries that confound the bad guys.

When you see this, it makes Aricola unlikely.
Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica and the British Archivist
https://books.google.com/books?id=1w1BAQAAMAAJ
1868 - ‎Bookplates, English
Robertus Saunders, agricola, tempore Hon. 6, a° 1439.; J l Johannes Saunders, agricola.T I Edwardus Saunders, de Harrington.¥Joanna. I Johannes 2 Laurentius¥Alicia, Gracia, Dorotliea,_'3 Will'muBFDorothea, 4 Thomas¥MargaSaunders, Saunders, (1e filia vxor filin Saunders, lldilia Wil- Saunders./l\reta, de Bed- ...

I have been researching my family tree for 70 years. I really appreciate the Internet but it is fraught with errors. I did my DNA 10 years ago and I'm trying to learn more about it but I'm just an old dog. Last week I attended a wonderful presentation on DNA research at the local Senior Center. One of the best I have seen. It was more on how to communicate with those matches that will not respond to communications. However one of the slides listed about 20 reasons why names changed in sources. I wish I had photographed that slide because it was not in the hand out. You can rest assured there are more than those 20 reasons why names change. I wish I could recite that that list to you but I'm working with a feeble old mind.

This is no comparison the the list I mentioned in my previous but there is a lot of info on the Internet about names. This is just one quick search.

http://napavalleyregister.com/lifestyles/columnists/genealogy/what-...

In the document quoted above it is clear that agricola is an occupation (farmer, in Latin) and not a woman. The old pun about a farmer (or man) out standing in his field comes from a joking school boy mistranslation, I suspect, agricola in agricolam. The farmer is in his field.

Of course, Agricole or Agricola could be a man’s or woman’s name but I have never seen it as such. There was a very famous Agricola in Classical Literature, not well known since the schools dropped Latin as a language requirement.