Barzillai MEEK- Speculative lineage (General)

by jimashton , Friday, September 17, 2010, 13:09 (5181 days ago) @ Danny

Thank you Danny

I have just checked my Family Tree and find that I too had made a mistake with Elijah Tippins, but a different mistake, I had him as the son of William Tippins 1773 & Sarah Read 1778, who are of course the parents of Sarah Tippins 1803 who had Elijah as a base child.

I checked the PR and he is quite clearly shown as a Base Child, which caused me to wonder what led me to such a mistake - albeit I am not perfect and make them, like anyone else. There was no Census data to mislead me as Elijah is not shown with William Tippins 1773 in 1841, Sarah was already dead and William 1773 was with his son, also William 1807. William 1773 was dead before 1851. I checked my own PR data, gleaned the hard way in Gloucester Records Office before the advent of this site and I hadn't recorded it there. However, a fellow researcher had given me a file, made up entirely of Tippins Parish records and on there Elijah is shown as the son of William Tippins and Sarah Read, baptised on 24 August 1823.

1841 Census East Dean
Wm Tippins abt 1816 East Dean
Leticia Tippins abt 1816 East Dean
Eliza Tippins abt 1831 East Dean
Francis Tippins abt 1836 East Dean
Jane Tippins abt 1834East Dean
Mary Tippins abt 1837 East Dean
Sarah Tippins abt 1829 East Dean
Wm Tippins abt 1775East Dean (Father)

Luckily my family tree software makes changes easy, so I have just amended it.

Thanks again Danny

Jim Ashton