Lookup request FMP [closed]

Question

Hi guys, I'm drawing a blank at FamilySearch and need some kind person with access to FindMyPast to do the deed.

Parents and siblings of James Wood b. 21 Sep 1732 Maidstone, Kent needed, I already have the marriage. Thanks in advance.

Comments

No baptism for him found on FMP ( caveat: it's not my favourite site, I'm lucky to have institutional access but as I rarely use I don't find it easy to search)

Where did the date and place of birth  in the profile come from? 

The Ancestry tree in the answer  from Stephen below has the same place and date but the fact is unsourced. It does reference (presumably as an alternative), a baptism in nearby Otham on 13 Sept but that can be discounted as the infant died.

Baptism

Burial

Ah; the ancestry tree does have a source for the 21 Sept. It's in the gallery. A snapshot of the wikitree profile page.

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Birth details are from FamilySearch but unsourced.

I smiled at the circular reference to Wikitree. :)

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Can't find anything at The Genealogist. MyHeritage has two unsourced trees with the suspect baptism date, one of them came from FamilySearch.

MH also has two other records, that have been transcribed from films at FS.
James Wood bap 23 Sep 1722 at Maidstone, parents John and Rachell.

James Wood burial 26 Apr 1724 at Maidstone, father John.

I checked at FamilySearch, which has the same baptism and burial dates transcribed from films. However the FamilySearch shared tree has the baptism date for this James as 21 Sep 1722. This makes me wonder whether there was some bad research with a typo that found its way into a tree and then others have copied the tree without checking.

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Thanks for all the help Leandra. I think this will be one of those that sits a while until some distant relative contacts me and says, "Hey, you goofed. It's ..."

Just like the Bloomfield one, which had the wrong parents and looked like a dead end until only yesterday.

Answer 1

There is another marriage for a James Wood, he was a widower in this record also, unless it is possibly a different James, father maybe?

First name(s) James

Last name Wood

Marital status Widower

Banns year 1754

Banns date 08 Sep 1754

Marriage year -

Marriage year 1754

Marriage place Maidstone, St Faith

Spouse's first name(s) Elisabeth

Spouse's last name Smith

Spouse's condition Spinster

County Kent

Country England

Archive Kent History & Library Centre

Archive reference P241/1/C/1

Register type Banns

Year range 1754-1762

Page 3

Record set Kent Marriages And Banns

Category Life Events (BDMs)

Subcategory Parish Marriages

Collections from England, Great Britain

© Findmypast

Comments

My guy would hardly be a widower at 22yo.

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But he was a widower when he married Mary 

First name(s) James

Last name Wood

Marital status Widower

Banns year 1760

Banns date 20 Apr 1760

Marriage year -

Marriage year 1760

Marriage place Maidstone, St Faith

Spouse's first name(s) Mary

Spouse's last name Burgess

Spouse's condition Spinster

County Kent

Country England

Archive Kent History & Library Centre

Archive reference P241/1/C/1

Register type Banns

Year range 1754-1762

Page 60

Record set Kent Marriages And Banns

Category Life Events (BDMs)

Subcategory Parish Marriages

Collections from England, Great Britain

© Findmypast

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I wasn't sure that's what you meant. So both those possibles were widowers? Now I'm in trouble. I'm convinced they're both incorrect.

Looks like it's a job for DNA matching.

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Why wouldn't he be a widower at 22? Loads of marriages between young people only lasted for a short time due to a death, and lots of women died in childbirth back then.

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I suppose I'm looking at it from today's standards, yes. It would still be fairly unusual, and there's no known first marriage on record either.

Answer 2

PrintCustomizeCANCEL Ancestry James Wood. James Wood. BIRTH 21 SEP 1732 • Maidstone, Kent, England DEATH ABT 1810 • England, United Kingdom Skip to Sources Facts Age 0 — Birth 21 Sep 1732 • Maidstone, Kent, England Baptism 13 Sep 1732 • Otham, Kent, England Age 14 — Death of Mother Elizabeth Mackstead(1690–1746) abt 1746 Age 21 — Death of Father Richard Wood(1710–1753) 1753 • Tyrrell County, North Carolina, USA Age 28 — Marriage 1760 • Kent, England, United Kingdom Mary Ann Burgess (1735–) Age 28 — Birth of Son James Wood(1761–) 1761 • Maidstone, Kent, England Age 33 — Birth of Son George Wood(1766–) 1766 • Maidstone, Kent, England Age 34 — Birth of Son Charles Wood(1767–) 1767 • Maidstone, Kent, England Age 34 — Birth of Son William Wood.(1767–1830) May 1767 • Maidstone, Kent, England Age 37 — Birth of Daughter Ann Wood(1770–) abt 1770 • England Age 46 — Residence 20 Jul 1779 • Maidstone, England Relation to Head of House: Head Age 78 — Death abt 1810 • England, United Kingdom Age 77 — Burial 18 Jun 1810 • All Saints Parish, Maidstone, Kent, England Baptism 18 Oct 1812 • Willingdon, Sussex, England Residence Maidstone, Kent, England Residence Maidstone Skip to Facts Family Parents Richard Wood 1710–1753 Elizabeth Mackstead 1690–1746 Spouse & Children Mary Ann Burgess 1735– James Wood 1761– George Wood 1766– Charles Wood 1767– William Wood. 1767–1830 Ann Wood 1770– Skip to Family Sources Ancestry Sources Ancestry Family Trees England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980 England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 View Source Kent, England, Tyler Index to Parish Registers, 1538-1874 View Source Kent, England, Tyler Index to Wills, 1460-1882

Comments

I wouldn't trust Ancestry family trees for this data, sorry. Asked for FMP reference because they have Maidstone All Saints birth records, which aren't at Kent OPC or FamilySearch unfortunately.

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that is your choice but it is a guide if nothing else but as I said your choice

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That tree has a baptism that pre-dates the birth. The child that was baptised at Otham died in infancy.

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fair enough I only looked for parents as that was what was requested. Though I have know birth dates to be wrong and the baptisms to be right and the other way around.