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Tombstone Tuesday: Burt Hale Pinkham 1881-1950 and Kate Kinmond 1885-1918
From the Woodlawn Cemetery, Westbrook, Me. Kate died in the worldwide influenza epidemic.
Oct 13, 2009 6:46:00 AM
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Madness Monday: John and Robert Barrows of Plymouth, Mass.
It is unusual for a family who lived in 17th century Plymouth to have no modern genealogical write-up. The basis of most accounts of this family comes from an article in the Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder from 1893. The Barrows also appear in the Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families by William T. Davis from 1883. Neither of these 19th century sources get this family correct. Robert Barrows first appears when he married Ruth Bonum at Plymouth on 28 November 1666 [Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts to the year 1850 compiled by Lee D. van Antwerp, ed. Ruth Wilder Sherman...
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Gaps in Colonial Records
In writing about John Barrows and the supposed 22 year gap in records, I remembered two articles that illustrate this point. "William and Goodwife Ayres of Hartford, Connecticut: Witches Who Got Away" by Gale Ion Harris, TAG 75:197-205 and the followup article, "The Later Career of William and Judith Ayres, Escaped Witches From Hartford, Connecticut: Rhode Island Destination and Descendants" by Gale Ion Harris and Robert Charles Anderson TAG 75:301-309. The upshot to this is that even someone running away from charges of witchcraft only disappeared from the records between 1662 (Hartford) and 1668 (Providence). That's only six years. He...
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