George Yate - Biological Mother of George Yate, Gent. (died 1691)

I don't know why WikiTree continues to say that George Yate's mother was Elizabeth_____, the second wife of John Yate, Esq. (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Yate-17). It seems clear from the Visitation of Berkshire and other contemporaneous records that John Yate, Esq. married only one woman in his life and that woman died sometime after 1664.

There are zero records showing any indication that John Yate, Esq. married twice or that he married a second time to a woman named Elizabeth _____ or Elizabeth White! The name Elizabeth shows up in a 1658 probate record and that's it. Yet, wild speculative conclusions continue to persist over on WikiTree, where now they say that George Yate was born not in 1640 but in 1642, as his father, John Yate, Esq., married this particular Elizabeth _____ in 1642. WikiTree is conducting some monumental chronological fine tuning to fit the dates just right for a second marriage of John Yate and a birth date of George Yate in 1642.

Whoever is in charge of the Yate family profiles over on WikiTree should really get their acts together. All the professional genealogical literature going back to the 1980s on this Yate line from Maryland has only ever stated that Mary (Tattershall) Yate was the mother of George Yate, Gent. (died 1691).