I have been trying to find the baptism of William Lachlan JORDAN for some time, with no success. I have searched for a William JORDAN, William LACHLAN, William SCURLOCK, William anything c1800 in Pembrokeshire.
Some people on Ancestry have him as the son of Margaret SCURLOCK and Richard JORDAN but this cannot be possible if he was born around 1800 and Margaret born in 1793. Certainly there is a baptism for Margaret SCURLOCK in Burton, Pembrokeshire on 1st September 1793 to William SCURLOCK and Mary JONES.
My family is descended from William SCURLOCK baptised at Burton on 17th January 1790 in Burton. He was Margaret SCURLOCK's elder brother and married Elizabeth LEWIS in Steyton in 1811. Richard JORDAN was the bondsman. This Richard JORDAN is said to be the father of William Lachlan JORDAN. My mother has a DNA match with descendants of William Lachlan JORDAN, but to our knowledge we have no blood ties with the JORDANs. This means that the connection must be through the SCURLOCK-LEWIS link, the SCURLOCK-JONES link or from our SCURLOCK-VENABLES link or through another link entirely.
William Lachlan JORDAN mentions his father Richard JORDAN in his will but does not mention any siblings. Richard JORDAN does not mention William Lachlan JORDAN in his will and only refers to 3 children - Eliza, John and Charles, in addition to their mother Margaret. What happened to Charles I do not know but Eliza and John married and had children of their own. Why was there no mention of William in Richard's will? Had William already received an inheritance from Richard JORDAN or did Richard JORDAN not acknowledge William as his son at the time?
Further searches on the National Library of Wales recently have not given me any further clues and I am yet to find a marriage for Richard JORDAN. I am also unable to find any birth or marriage information for his sister Dorothy. I am left with still further questions.