Possible parish record transcription error (General)

by essjay , Friday, September 30, 2011, 21:18 (4809 days ago) @ mrsbruso

I wasn't too worried by the spelling of John's father's name, nor the surname being Plaisted and Plaister. I've seen some odd spellings of names in other branches of my tree.

I was curious about the apparent burial of John 3 days before he died. At least I've now ruled out a modern transcription error thanks to the project co-ordinator Graham Davison who by checking the images of the original documents confirms that both transcripts are correct, so any errors that did happen were so long ago it would be impossible to find out.

According to John's will, his wife was Mary. After her death 4 years after John, and the administration of John's will, their two youngest children had guardians Thomas Plaisted and William Marshall. It seems likely that Mary was a Marshall - and John Plainsted married Mary Marshall at Gloucester Cathedral in 1743. Unfortunately, the transcription of the marriage does not include the names of the witnesses.

The John baptised in 1713 had a brother Thomas, another reason to suspect that the numerals of the age were reversed, and he was actually 46 when he died not 64.

I'm just going to have to accept that I'll never get to the bottom of this, and that I can't prove that John was the son of Daniel and Mary.