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| 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> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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