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Impossible births
« on: Tuesday 22 March 22 12:06 GMT (UK) »
I thought I had seen it all when a tree on Ancestry had one of my ancestors giving birth at the age of 122. Especially as the tree owner couldn't see a problem when I contacted them.

Today when searching for the parents of James Stebbings born about 1830 in Wisbech Cambridgeshire Ancestry suggested several trees which show his mother giving birth at the age of 285!!.  Do people not see that someone born in the 19th century cannot have parents born in the 16th.
Sometimes I despair of human intelligence.
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Broadhouse, Broadist and variants - world wide - one name study
Oxfordshire - Broadist, May, Carpenter, Eden, Goold (Gould), Parker, Tanner
Gloucestershire - Broddis, Deacon, Midwinter
London - Fox, Gill, Maidlow, Easton
Norfolk - Stebbings, Gore, Gotts, Hubbard, Cropley
Berkshire- Haines, Kent, Booker, Noke, Norris
Yorkshire - Ramsbottom, Robinson, Dawson
Northamptonshire - Jones, Loak, Dent, Randall, Reynolds, Ramsbottom, Jelley, Rutland
Ireland - Withers, Cassidy, Leahy, Sweeney

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Re: Impossible births
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 22 March 22 12:11 GMT (UK) »
I can outdo those! I've seen one where both parents were deceased when the child was born...the father about 45 years before and the mother 30 years before the birth  :o :o  ;D ;D

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Re: Impossible births
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 22 March 22 12:16 GMT (UK) »
Yes you sometimes wonder whether people have any understanding of simple biology.
Broadhouse, Broadist and variants - world wide - one name study
Oxfordshire - Broadist, May, Carpenter, Eden, Goold (Gould), Parker, Tanner
Gloucestershire - Broddis, Deacon, Midwinter
London - Fox, Gill, Maidlow, Easton
Norfolk - Stebbings, Gore, Gotts, Hubbard, Cropley
Berkshire- Haines, Kent, Booker, Noke, Norris
Yorkshire - Ramsbottom, Robinson, Dawson
Northamptonshire - Jones, Loak, Dent, Randall, Reynolds, Ramsbottom, Jelley, Rutland
Ireland - Withers, Cassidy, Leahy, Sweeney

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Re: Impossible births
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 22 March 22 12:27 GMT (UK) »
I once had to correct someone who had an ancestor born in 1823 dying in WWI in 1915...again, they couldn't see the problem.  I give up!!
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Re: Impossible births
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 22 March 22 13:46 GMT (UK) »
A sadly deceased friend of mine inherited his family tree, started by his cousin. He found in it, what must be the most patriotic, or unlucky,  person in the whole world. He was called John Smith and he managed to get killed in every conflict since the Boer War - sometimes twice! There's dedication for you. 

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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 22 March 22 15:21 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Kiltpin on Tuesday 22 March 22 13:46 GMT (UK)
A sadly deceased friend of mine inherited his family tree, started by his cousin. He found in it, what must be the most patriotic, or unlucky,  person in the whole world. He was called John Smith and he managed to get killed in every conflict since the Boer War - sometimes twice! There's dedication for you. 


He must have been a comrade of another ubiquitous soldier Tommy Atkins.  ;)
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Re: Impossible births
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 22 March 22 17:49 GMT (UK) »
I must say I one clicked on a baptism with all the correct names and places date did not show on page but I soon realized it was 100 years too early and corrected it .
Could have been enough time for someone to copy my error
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« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 22 March 22 20:15 GMT (UK) »
Personally I like the births that happened YEARS before said parents were born  ;D
Away sorting out DNA matches... I may be gone for some time many years!

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« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 22 March 22 20:29 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Kiltpin on Tuesday 22 March 22 13:46 GMT (UK)
A sadly deceased friend of mine inherited his family tree, started by his cousin. He found in it, what must be the most patriotic, or unlucky,  person in the whole world. He was called John Smith and he managed to get killed in every conflict since the Boer War - sometimes twice! There's dedication for you. 

Regards 


Chas

Whew! He must have had a row of medals on his chest to best that of my brother Silvest !
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