Request for help on error code 305.

Question

Can someone please help me with a error code flag pertaining to Profiles (Custer-21) and (Cain-1200) Mother and Daughter. Error report indicates mother to young or not born. Mother was born 1751, daughter was born 1760 resulting in age difference of only 9 years. I can't find any records to dispel these dates. I have checked, Ancestry.com, Familysearch.org, Geni.com, findagrave.com with no difference. Mother was married to noteworthy rev war soldier and indicates she was 17 YO at time of marriage.

Answer 1

Is there any evidence that she was their child?  I doubt it, because looking at the rest of the family, it sticks out like a sore thumb that she wasn't.

Comments

Actually, assuming for the sake of argument that Kirk did marry an Agnes Cain, I'll be surprised if there's any evidence that she was ever called Elizabeth.

The trick was, you've got no info on Agnes's parents, you go looking for Cains, you find one, dates don't quite work but nobody will notice, he hasn't got a daughter called Agnes, but there is one called Elizabeth who doesn't seem to have married, so we just say that Agnes was Agnes Elizabeth really and that's her.  Brick wall demolished.  (Creative Genealogy 101)

There are thousands of those out there.

Answer 2

Having seen the profile: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Custer-21 - it is most likely he married after a spouse died - though I didn't really understand any of the biography and sources.

The other profile http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cain-1200 seems to have been a gedcom import - and needs sources.

Answer 3

It was not uncommon in the past for an older sibling a stepmother to take the place of a dead biological mother.  Remember that our ancestors were not into documenting things like we are.  So I would think in terms of this being either step relationship or a case of an older sibling or cousin taking on the roll of mother.  Is it possible for a 9 year old to give  birth?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_youngest_birth_mothers  according to this the answer would be yes.  So while rare it is possible.  But I would continue to look for other possibilities just in case....