Rees Perkins - Parents?

Looks like Wikitree's source is a since-deleted Ancestry tree, so we can't use it. Any other sources?

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153192351/rees-perkins

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LZHG-X2L/rees-perkins-1729-1767

Hi Private User! Just saw your post and am looking

https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&n=perkins&oc=0&amp...

http://www.ewbarnard.com/public/rees_perkins.html

http://www.ewbarnard.com/public/reese_rees_w_perkins.html (same but different url)

https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/rees-perkins-24-36jpq1d

This one says son of:
https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/g/a/r/Thomas-D-Garrett-5/WEBSITE-0001...

https://timmonstree.org/fam907.html

??? on this one but it resulted:

http://www.theforgottenamongus.com/?p=200

I was thinking more of primary sources or solid secondary. For 1700s Georgetown County, that can be hard -- the 1822 hurricane did a lot of damage, and much of what survived was burned in 1865 after being moved inland for safekeeping -- but if the people building those trees found records, then we should be able to find them, too.

Looks like, at minimum, a transcript of his will survived, so let's see what else we can find.

I'm getting ready to leave my desk and will have to pick this up later, but a quick review of journal articles suggests we have at minimum the wrong father. Right now we have his paternal line jumping from Essex, Massachusetts to inland South Carolina (!). Journal articles have him descending through a Delaware line, which is far more plausible. I'll write up what I can later.

Unfortunately, most of those links don't help us a ton (though it was good to review what's out there!). But https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153192351/rees-perkins has some good, hard-to-find info on his baptism. The question is, does the baptismal record actually give his parents' names and birthplaces? Or is the FindAGrave manager using a different source for that info? Might be worth messaging them to find out exactly what the record (or index) says.

Here's what I would say:

- Jennifer Ann Henley Perkins, who was the editor of the "Perkins Press" journal, says (Vol. 12, 1994, pp. 22-36) that Rees was the son of 1) Samuel Perkins, b. 1700 in an unknown place to unknown parents and 2) FNU Rees, the daughter of Daniel Rees of New Castle County, Delaware.

- Brent H. Holcomb, one of the all-time greats of South Carolina genealogy, says ("South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research," Vol. 21-23, 1993, p. 54) that we can't even be sure that the father was Samuel, and that really all we know is that the maternal grandfather was the aforementioned Daniel Rees of New Castle County, Delaware.

- Paula Perkins Mortensen wrote on p. 12 of the 1986 "Perkins Family Newsletter" (a family association annual) that his father was Samuel, b. c. 1700, and that his mother was an FNU Rees. No mention of Daniel.

Regardless of the Rees name, I find no mention of Wales or Welsh ancestry anywhere. There certainly was a migration route from Cardiff to Colonial Virginia, but we can't quite get there yet.

I can't find any newer original research, which isn't surprising considering the hurricanes and burning. I am intrigued by the baptismal record, but like I said, we'd need specifics.

At this point, I'd trust Perkins, Holcomb, and Mortensen and say that we should give Rees this ancestry:

Father: Samuel Perkins, b. c. 1700, resided in South Carolina
Mother: FNU Rees, resided in South Carolina
Maternal grandfather: Daniel Rees, resident of New Castle County, Delaware

And then we can cross our fingers and hope more is discovered.

Would that work?

I'm tagging Samuel Perkins G. Perkins and Daniel Rees since those are the profiles we'd be editing.

None of them are cited, so I don't anticipate any objections, but I always try to wait a day or two just in case.

Since there were no objections, I have cut Samuel Perkins from his proposed parents and updated his data fields.

For his wife (G. Perkins) and father-in-law (Daniel Rees), I'm reluctant to fully *cut* in case there really is a Grace Rees who was the mother of those other children. Can we get citations for any of those other children/relationships?

Are there folks you can tag Private User? I brought it to attention but it is not my focus and I am unable to give any more at this time than the sources I have posted. It seems to me that if you wish to have an actual DISCUSSION, others should be included in the decision

Yes, Cynthia -- that's why I keep tagging the relevant profiles, because it sends a notification to the managers and followers of those profiles. So if they choose to engage, that would be great -- and if they don't want to, that's also fine.