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Private - dup compare screen went away so I can’t find the not! Theophilus Williams Anymore.

Private User - I’ve been struggling to make sense of Mary Pratt parentage and need other people to take a crack at it now.

She can’t possibly be Mary Gale daughter of Abraham baptized at Watertown in 1689. And I do not think that Mary is the one who married “Michael Pratt of Oxford.”

Michael can be an alternative name for Micah Pratt and he’s the man who married Mary Pratt in 1731. There could have been a 20 years older Michael Pratt, and therefore two same-name couples, but I don’t think that’s what happened here. I suspect the Bond genealogy book caused confusion instead.

See https://archive.org/details/genealogiesoffam00bond/page/228/mode/2up

10. Mary, bap. Ap. 1689 ; (?) m., Nov. 3, 1731. Michael Pratt, of O.vford.

(You really don’t see a first marriage at age 40 or more very often in this era)

At https://archive.org/details/genealogiesoffam00bond/page/230/mode/2up Bond shows as daughter of Richard Gale & Sarah Knights:

3. Mercy, b. Dec. 4, 1710; m., Dec. 26, 1749, Abraham Jones. [Jone.<;, 65.]

Geni has: Mercy Wheat

That birth is this record:

https://www.innsbruckprinting.com/family_history/showmedia.php?medi...

[5th down, top left.] December 4, 1710. “Mercy Gale, the daughter is Richard Gage & Sarah his wife was born December 4, 1710.”

Which clearly some sites are interpreting at Mercy = Mary. Bond, however, did not.

So - what to do?

For what it’s worth, at https://archive.org/details/galefamilyrecord1866gale/page/40/mode/2up “The marriages of these of the daughters, as given by "Bond's Genealogies of Watertown," are of doubtful identity, and we give them with a mark of doubt.”

On the other hand, Richard & Sarah Gale had “removed to Canterbury CT” in 1722, making it less likely their daughter Mercy (Mary?) was marrying in Watertown in 1731. And Ebenezer Gale went to Oxford.

So a possibility is that it was indeed the 1689 Mary Gale who married Micah … but he remarried, and the younger children had a different mother.

Private User Take a look and make sure I got everybody where they belong.

Private User - but Mary Pratt isn’t solved yet unfortunately. If the childrens birthdates are accurate - they look VR based - there’s no break to suggest a 1st wife death & subsequent remarriage,

And still didn’t look for “widow Gales” who could have been the wife of Micah Pratt in 1731.

I think we should go ahead and consider her “parents unidentified” and detached.

I’ll go ahead and detach her from any parents for now.

Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087 - re Daniel Bentley, Jr., of Fluvanna County Merges undone.

Private User - Faulkners are done, except Private which requires manager or family group approval to complete.

http://the-red-thread.net/genealogy/Sension-St.John.html - re: Mathias ‘the chandler’ Sension, Sr.

Indeed, parents as Rt. Hon. Sir Oliver St John, Esquire of Keysoe & Sarah St. John seem ruled out, and as of an article published in NEGHR (2013) his father was identified as Christopher Sension with some controversy about his mother Joan (first wife? Later wife? Welsh?)

The English family profiles need developing but the genealogy seems accepted.

Jefffey Gorton - I uploaded the article naming the correct parents of Mathias ‘the chandler’ Sension, Sr. to profiles. They were Christopher Sension & Joane St. John (Sension)

https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000198631843885

Don’t merge Rice Price & Alexander Rice Price, Sr.

I had detached them previously.

John Thompson Duplicate tree isolated & sent for deleting.

Gu-Lu-Sti-Yu Riley - merging done.

Detached time traveling William Boerum from parents and found parents for wife Annetje-Anetze Martense Schenck

So proceeding with merge of Simon Boerum

Jefffey Gorton - it’s actually newish (2012) research, a great find, and interesting - the family had come from the Spanish Netherlands ro England. So I presume Huguenots originally from France. And, I think this was never thought of before.

St. John is a common enough name.