Charles Lee Mudd Jr. Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameGeorge Platt 
47, M
47, MBirth Dateabt 13 May 1582
Birth PlaceWare, Hertfordshire, England
Death Datebef 20 Apr 1609 Age: 26
Death PlaceWare, Hertfordshire, England
Death MemoM
FatherSimon Platt , M (~1530-<1594)
MotherElizabeth ? (3) , F
Misc. Notes
Tue, 11 Jan 2000 01:14:02 -0800
"Chris REYNOLDS" <Chris@codil.freeserve.co.uk>
Source: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: PLATT and WOOD families
Charles Mudd <muddhaven@earthlink.net> wrote
[snip]
George PLATT s of Simon and Elizabeth was baptized 13 May 1582 Ware,
co. Hertford, England and buried there 20 April 1609. He married ca
1597/8 Mary (__) who survived him and was executrix of his will. He
was a tailor. She no doubt married again as no burial was found for
her.
Children: All bapt. at Ware
George bpt 23 July 1598 bur Ware 15 July 1625 prob unm
William bpt 26 Oct 1600 mar ca 1628 Martha (__). Moved to London,
Eng.
Richard bpt 6 May 1604
Mary bpt 23 Mar 1605/6
Elizabeth bpt 7 Aug 1608 bur Ware 6 Oct 1608"
[snip].
While I have no first hand experience of the Ware registers or the
PLATT
family the comment "She no doubt married again as no burial was found
for
her" attracted my attention as being speculative - as trying to match
burials with individuals in the early 17th century has hazards
because the
entries are often name and date only. In addition the Hertfordshire
volume
of "National Index of Parish Registers" says that "many events for
Ware
people are in the Thundridge registers."
I therefore had a quick look at the IGI entries for George PLATT on
www/familysearch.org and was not happy. The Ware christening indexes
have been input between 1558 and 1681 (batch C073041) and the only
entry with the surname PLATT was that of William Platt who was
christened on 8 December, 1594. None of the baptisms listed above are
mentioned.
However there were a large number of submitted entries for George,
some
quite obviously guesses and several relating to George's baptism on
13 May
1582 at Ware, with the name PLATT or PLATTE.
So why was George PLATT (or any other PLATT apart from William) not
included as being on the Ware register? I cannot tell but clearly the
information you have from "a published source" you do not identify
clearly needs very robust checking. It is well known that many of the
submitted entries on the IGI came from family trees by amateur family
historians and are full of errors - which have then been copied by
others. The PLATT situation is similar to another I recently
investigated where there were many submitted references to a
particular family in a particular Hertfordshire town. Some looked
like vague guesses while some specifically mentioned baptisms in the
parish church. Unfortunately none of the references occurred in the
register - and
the most charitable explanation is that the town (and perhaps the
county as
there was a possibility of confusion with an Essex location) was
systematically wrong.
You should carefully check the information about the PLATT family of
"Ware" and if the information is wrong you should treat the whole
document as suspect for all events and dates which you cannot confirm
yourself. (Don't fell bad about this, when I first started
researching my own family I was fooled by what I now know was an
erroneous family tree in the Hertfordshire Records Office. )
Chris Reynolds
<chris@hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk>
"Chris REYNOLDS" <Chris@codil.freeserve.co.uk>
Source: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: PLATT and WOOD families
Charles Mudd <muddhaven@earthlink.net> wrote
[snip]
George PLATT s of Simon and Elizabeth was baptized 13 May 1582 Ware,
co. Hertford, England and buried there 20 April 1609. He married ca
1597/8 Mary (__) who survived him and was executrix of his will. He
was a tailor. She no doubt married again as no burial was found for
her.
Children: All bapt. at Ware
George bpt 23 July 1598 bur Ware 15 July 1625 prob unm
William bpt 26 Oct 1600 mar ca 1628 Martha (__). Moved to London,
Eng.
Richard bpt 6 May 1604
Mary bpt 23 Mar 1605/6
Elizabeth bpt 7 Aug 1608 bur Ware 6 Oct 1608"
[snip].
While I have no first hand experience of the Ware registers or the
PLATT
family the comment "She no doubt married again as no burial was found
for
her" attracted my attention as being speculative - as trying to match
burials with individuals in the early 17th century has hazards
because the
entries are often name and date only. In addition the Hertfordshire
volume
of "National Index of Parish Registers" says that "many events for
Ware
people are in the Thundridge registers."
I therefore had a quick look at the IGI entries for George PLATT on
www/familysearch.org and was not happy. The Ware christening indexes
have been input between 1558 and 1681 (batch C073041) and the only
entry with the surname PLATT was that of William Platt who was
christened on 8 December, 1594. None of the baptisms listed above are
mentioned.
However there were a large number of submitted entries for George,
some
quite obviously guesses and several relating to George's baptism on
13 May
1582 at Ware, with the name PLATT or PLATTE.
So why was George PLATT (or any other PLATT apart from William) not
included as being on the Ware register? I cannot tell but clearly the
information you have from "a published source" you do not identify
clearly needs very robust checking. It is well known that many of the
submitted entries on the IGI came from family trees by amateur family
historians and are full of errors - which have then been copied by
others. The PLATT situation is similar to another I recently
investigated where there were many submitted references to a
particular family in a particular Hertfordshire town. Some looked
like vague guesses while some specifically mentioned baptisms in the
parish church. Unfortunately none of the references occurred in the
register - and
the most charitable explanation is that the town (and perhaps the
county as
there was a possibility of confusion with an Essex location) was
systematically wrong.
You should carefully check the information about the PLATT family of
"Ware" and if the information is wrong you should treat the whole
document as suspect for all events and dates which you cannot confirm
yourself. (Don't fell bad about this, when I first started
researching my own family I was fooled by what I now know was an
erroneous family tree in the Hertfordshire Records Office. )
Chris Reynolds
<chris@hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk>
Misc. Notes
Tue, 11 Jan 2000 01:14:02 -0800
"Chris REYNOLDS" <Chris@codil.freeserve.co.uk>
Source: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: PLATT and WOOD families
Charles Mudd <muddhaven@earthlink.net> wrote
[snip]
George PLATT s of Simon and Elizabeth was baptized 13 May 1582 Ware,
co. Hertford, England and buried there 20 April 1609. He married ca
1597/8 Mary (__) who survived him and was executrix of his will. He
was a tailor. She no doubt married again as no burial was found for
her.
Children: All bapt. at Ware
George bpt 23 July 1598 bur Ware 15 July 1625 prob unm
William bpt 26 Oct 1600 mar ca 1628 Martha (__). Moved to London, Eng.
Richard bpt 6 May 1604
Mary bpt 23 Mar 1605/6
Elizabeth bpt 7 Aug 1608 bur Ware 6 Oct 1608"
[snip].
While I have no first hand experience of the Ware registers or the
PLATT family the comment "She no doubt married again as no burial was found
for her" attracted my attention as being speculative - as trying to match
burials with individuals in the early 17th century has hazards
because the entries are often name and date only. In addition the Hertfordshire
volume of "National Index of Parish Registers" says that "many events for
Ware people are in the Thundridge registers."
I therefore had a quick look at the IGI entries for George PLATT on
www/familysearch.org and was not happy. The Ware christening indexes
have been input between 1558 and 1681 (batch C073041) and the only
entry with the surname PLATT was that of William Platt who was
christened on 8 December, 1594. None of the baptisms listed above are
mentioned.
However there were a large number of submitted entries for George,
some quite obviously guesses and several relating to George's baptism on
13 May 1582 at Ware, with the name PLATT or PLATTE.
So why was George PLATT (or any other PLATT apart from William) not
included as being on the Ware register? I cannot tell but clearly the
information you have from "a published source" you do not identify
clearly needs very robust checking. It is well known that many of the
submitted entries on the IGI came from family trees by amateur family
historians and are full of errors - which have then been copied by
others. The PLATT situation is similar to another I recently
investigated where there were many submitted references to a
particular family in a particular Hertfordshire town. Some looked
like vague guesses while some specifically mentioned baptisms in the
parish church. Unfortunately none of the references occurred in the
register - and the most charitable explanation is that the town (and perhaps the
county as there was a possibility of confusion with an Essex location) was
systematically wrong.
You should carefully check the information about the PLATT family of
"Ware" and if the information is wrong you should treat the whole
document as suspect for all events and dates which you cannot confirm
yourself. (Don't fell bad about this, when I first started
researching my own family I was fooled by what I now know was an
erroneous family tree in the Hertfordshire Records Office. )
Chris Reynolds
<chris@hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk>
"Chris REYNOLDS" <Chris@codil.freeserve.co.uk>
Source: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: PLATT and WOOD families
Charles Mudd <muddhaven@earthlink.net> wrote
[snip]
George PLATT s of Simon and Elizabeth was baptized 13 May 1582 Ware,
co. Hertford, England and buried there 20 April 1609. He married ca
1597/8 Mary (__) who survived him and was executrix of his will. He
was a tailor. She no doubt married again as no burial was found for
her.
Children: All bapt. at Ware
George bpt 23 July 1598 bur Ware 15 July 1625 prob unm
William bpt 26 Oct 1600 mar ca 1628 Martha (__). Moved to London, Eng.
Richard bpt 6 May 1604
Mary bpt 23 Mar 1605/6
Elizabeth bpt 7 Aug 1608 bur Ware 6 Oct 1608"
[snip].
While I have no first hand experience of the Ware registers or the
PLATT family the comment "She no doubt married again as no burial was found
for her" attracted my attention as being speculative - as trying to match
burials with individuals in the early 17th century has hazards
because the entries are often name and date only. In addition the Hertfordshire
volume of "National Index of Parish Registers" says that "many events for
Ware people are in the Thundridge registers."
I therefore had a quick look at the IGI entries for George PLATT on
www/familysearch.org and was not happy. The Ware christening indexes
have been input between 1558 and 1681 (batch C073041) and the only
entry with the surname PLATT was that of William Platt who was
christened on 8 December, 1594. None of the baptisms listed above are
mentioned.
However there were a large number of submitted entries for George,
some quite obviously guesses and several relating to George's baptism on
13 May 1582 at Ware, with the name PLATT or PLATTE.
So why was George PLATT (or any other PLATT apart from William) not
included as being on the Ware register? I cannot tell but clearly the
information you have from "a published source" you do not identify
clearly needs very robust checking. It is well known that many of the
submitted entries on the IGI came from family trees by amateur family
historians and are full of errors - which have then been copied by
others. The PLATT situation is similar to another I recently
investigated where there were many submitted references to a
particular family in a particular Hertfordshire town. Some looked
like vague guesses while some specifically mentioned baptisms in the
parish church. Unfortunately none of the references occurred in the
register - and the most charitable explanation is that the town (and perhaps the
county as there was a possibility of confusion with an Essex location) was
systematically wrong.
You should carefully check the information about the PLATT family of
"Ware" and if the information is wrong you should treat the whole
document as suspect for all events and dates which you cannot confirm
yourself. (Don't fell bad about this, when I first started
researching my own family I was fooled by what I now know was an
erroneous family tree in the Hertfordshire Records Office. )
Chris Reynolds
<chris@hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk>