The gravestone is the thing that makes me doubt all this - if you look at the details, he was a yeoman and seems to have lived and been buried many miles from where the offspring were born. ( Phoebe is listed as dying in Cumberland - a long way from the gravestone!). Also, think about a yeoman (John) having a collier for a son (William) and then having a gravestone put up for him. I've not found any wills for him. Maybe the parents were a Phebe and John - but not that pair. The Midlands has many Parrish/Parish surnames and, when you add John, we're nearly into Smith/Jones searching! The Walkington line is different as there is some proof for that one - even so I have only penciled it in on my tree and I think that I was the one who discovered that line.
I gave details of this tree (back to William and Ann) to the husband of a 2nd cousin quite a while ago. He put it on GR and then things went mad - people just found names and attached them to the tree without any checking at all. Then these were copied and put up on Ancestry until we find over a page of them. It seems to me that many of them are name collecting for the sake of it.
I think it might be best if we don't continue the discussion about them here. It gets me annoyed!
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PS - There are a few more since I last looked - some are hilarious - in one, my ancestor married a french woman and had children in America and returned home to Chirk to die
Oops - just found another glaring error ~ Phebe Jeston married
1. William Barwise b Holme, Cumbria 1715 and who died 1749 Holme, Cumbria
but also:
2. John Parrish in 1733 in Halesowen and had 4 sons by this marriage before poor old William Barwise was dead!
Another has John Parrish's parents as Robert Barwise and Rebecca Tordiff (again in Holme, Cumbria)
Yet another has John Parrish marrying a Margaret Folder (1712-1785) and having a son, John Barwise in 1740 in Holme while also being married to Phebe
* The IGI. extracted series, does have a Phoebe Jeston marrying in Halesowen - but to a William Parks in Dec 1761.
I don't think that I can look at anymore!
