Agnes Tilley (Bishops) - Questions

Just a note. English women always had their husbands name, going pretty far back, long before the 1500s, unless really noble, Scots, Irish, Welsh and European women did not and still don’t, for the most part.

I’ll look at Ken’s question as it probably leads to a Colonist.

I see in the profile “research notes”

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William Tilley is currently shown as married to two women named Agnes. They are different women with different dates. It appears likely that one was married only to Tilley and the other married only to Chandler. More research needed!

Day-1904|Day-1904 10:19, 16 January 2018 (EST)

De Bishops-1|Agnes de Bishops (1502-1554), lived in Hertfordshire, married Thomas Chandler, had Chandler children.

Bishops-2|Agnes Bishops (1519-1582) lived in Bedfordshire. Shownto have married both Thomas Chandler and William Tilley, had Tilley Children.

This is probably from Wikitree.

Looks like Thomas Chandler married an Agnes unknown.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89614779/thomas-chandler has a good citation.

Son of Thomas, father of John, Thomas, Agnes (Mrs Richard Bedwell) and Robert. He was the only son or only son to outlive his father. He left considerable property in Bishop's Stortford, and married an Agnes circa 1525.

English Origins of New England Families, Vol II, p. 355:

"Thomas Chandler of Bishops-Stortford, born about 1500, died in the spring of 1554. He married, about 1525, Agnes ____, who survived him. …

I’ll undo some merges.

https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=74328541640

They are separated.

Agnes Chandler Is not the same as Agnes Tilley

I just merged the last of the total 120 Agnes profiles.

Ken Shelley was asking how the same person can be of both Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire at more or less the same time. The answer is, they can’t.

But I wasn’t evaluating by geography the way he was. I am familiar with both the Chandler & Tilley families in New England and have been merging their dups for years. They are not connected families.

But what really did it was the Disambiguation note stuck to the Gedcom, so they’re not all bad.:)

This was very time consuming, but they’ve been wrong on Geni (and other sites) since before 2014. So better late than never.