Walter Varney (abt. 1635 - abt. 1650)

Born about 20 Jul 1635 in Barbados, West Indies [uncertain]

Died about 9 Dec 1650 at about age 15 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts [uncertain]

Biography

Walter Varney is presumed to have born circa 1935, in Barbados, West Indies. However, he may never have existed.^[1]

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Research Notes

CAUTION - QUESTIONABLE EXISTENCE

Walter was listed as one of the children of William Varney and his wife Bridget by Raymon Meyers Tingley in the early to mid-930s.^[2] Tingley gives no sources and his work is considered, at best, incompetent and unreliable unless supported by references to other more reliable sources, particularly original records.

Tingley gives Walter a birth date of 20 July 1635, in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Unfortunately, research in original records suggests that William and Bridget Varney and their family did not arrive in Ipswich until about 1648 or 1649,^[3] so that Walter could not have been born there.

A more recent account of the Varney family history omits Walter as a child of William and Bridget, but suggests that their children were born in Barbados, based on the assumption that Bridget was the widow Parsons.^[4] The assumption that Bridget was the widow Parsons has long since been disproven, and there is no evidence that the Varney family ever lived in Barbados.^[5]

William Varney and his wife were known to have three sons (Humphrey, Thomas, a son whose name is Unknown and who was born about 1633) and one daughter (Rachel). There is no evidence that they had a son named Walter, or that a Walter Varney ever even existed.

Unfortunately, any number of individuals have continued to report Walter Varney as a child of William and Bridget, without documentation and often without attribution.^[6][7] Until such time as an actual record, an original source, is found to prove otherwise, Walter's existence remains open to question.

Sources

1. ↑ Category:Raymon_Meyers_Tingley_Fraud
2. ↑ Tingley, Raymon Meyers. Some ancestral lines: being a record of some of the ancestors of Guilford Solon Tingley and his wife Martha Pamelia Meyers. (Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing Co., 1935.p. 417)
3. ↑ Records and files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1911-1925, 1975) Vol 1, pp 179
4. ↑ Collacott, Margaret Oliver. The ancestors and descendants of Zephaniah and Silence Alden Hathaway: with notes on allied families. (Mentor, Ohio: unknown, 1961). p. 218
   NOTE: much of this material on Varney family seems to be based on undocumented research done by Herbert Clarkson Hathaway (1875-1947), a descendant of Humphrey Varney
5. ↑ Parsons, Willis S. “Jeffery Parsons of Loddiswell, Devonshire and Gloucester, Massachusetts”, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), Vol 142, July 1988
   See also: Barber, Kathleen Canney, and Janet Ireland Delorey. "William Varney of Ipswich and Gloucester, Massachusetts". The American Genealogist. (Jul 2006)
6. ↑ See the more than 100 submissions to the "Ancestral File" data base on FamilySearch.org. File HW0K-G4 is an example of one such submission. (accessed 27 Mar 2017)
7. ↑ In a search of Public Family Trees on Ancestry.com on 27 Mar 2017 based on a search Walter Varney, b. 1635, son of William Varney, not one of the first 200 listed provided a single reference to any actual source, including Tingley and Collacott, both of which are available on Ancestry.com. All were simply copied from someone else's Family Tree.

See also:

FamilySearch.org

• FamilySearch.org profile: Walter Varney; free-use site, login required to view profile and source documents; profile created through membership collaboration; date accessed: 27 Nov 2019

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Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Varney-149 was created by Perry-1980 through the import of Perry Family Tree.ged on 19 Dec 2011.