Margaret Shaw is a orphaned, unconnected lonely profile Can you help grow this profile. [closed]

Question

Margaret Shaw's profile needs some TLC from the community.

  She was born in Ireland in 1625 and died in Augusta, Virginia in 1747.  at the age of 122!!

Can you help fill in the blanks to tell her life story and amend the dates....

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Difficult to think that she lived 122 years.

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I know, it is amazing how many profiles are showing in the suggestion lists with dates that mean they lived over 100 years.

Working on Ireland orphan profiles this week since it is St Patrick's Day on Tuesday

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If you click on Margaret Shaw's WikiTree profile and then click on her mother, Eleanora, it shows her mother was born in 1693 and died the same year.

There was a Margaret Shaw Trevey who died in 1870 and was buried at Sherando, Augusta, Virginia. The cemetery was Sherando Methodist Church Cemetery.                  Find A Grave Index.

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Thank you Frank that is worth knowing it opens up research possibilities

Answer 1

Considering that there are no connections, no sources, the unlikelihood of living 122 years, the unlikelihood of finding sources for an older profile, it would probably be best to wipe the data off of the profile and put it in the Unknowns Project and category to be recycled.

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In the well-respected book, SETTLERS BY THE LONG GREY TRAIL, she is mentioned. Wife of John Houston,

profile dates are bad, of course

the Houston family is in Chalkley's Chronicles

Ancestor of Samuel Houston, who died at the Alamo or close family member

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a duplicate, some differences, needs sources also

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Shaw-5522

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possible sources

 Annals of Augusta County, Va., by Waddell; History of Augusta County, Va., by Peyton; Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement of Va., (including Swiss, Dutch and German Settlers), by Chalkley; Annals of Southwest Va., by Summers; A History of Shenandoah County, Va., by Way land; A History of Rockbridge County, Va., by Mortem

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https://books.google.com/books?id=D_ktpnNHcbIC&pg=PA483&lpg=PA483&dq=houston+family+of+augusta+county+virginia&source=bl&ots=j2Svohhj2j&sig=ACfU3U2lb2fH9Ol1c8vjhXOe2F0VnEOinA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjrwajWhZ7oAhWbWc0KHTAaAts4FBDoATAIegQICxAB#v=onepage&q=houston%20family%20of%20augusta%20county%20virginia&f=false

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https://books.google.com/books?id=3XtHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA340&lpg=PA340&dq=houston+family+of+augusta+county+virginia&source=bl&ots=4SH0MTq-NJ&sig=ACfU3U2DAYsSm_zqHHjFl6QCYM0LJtk4Iw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjx8fiKh57oAhULCM0KHeGjCPE4HhDoATABegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=houston%20family%20of%20augusta%20county%20virginia&f=false

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begins page 179

https://books.google.com/books?id=H9YUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=houston+family+of+augusta+county+virginia&source=bl&ots=9Fj4fZKzgB&sig=ACfU3U2TC4jFT7fjznqp2YxCvdRTHDfxqw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjx8fiKh57oAhULCM0KHeGjCPE4HhDoATAEegQIChAB#v=onepage&q=houston%20family%20of%20augusta%20county%20virginia&f=false

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Thanks Eddie, some wonderful links to review.really appreciate these and the note on a possible duplicate

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Thanks Eric, the movement of a profile to the unknown recycle is a last resort. One of the reason for posting a question here is to see if the community can help out first, which is what we have here.

Recycling profiles is always an option if nothing is found, thanks for the reminder of the option

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I have spent days working on profiles that were incorrectly recycled.

Recycling IDs corrupts the change history of a profile. Being able to follow the history of changes to a page is critically important on a wiki.

Recycling IDs also corrupts URLs. It damages how Google indexes WikiTree, and will confuse any links to the profile that may exist elsewhere on WikiTree or on other websites.

Please read through the help page on this subject https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Recycling_WikiTree_IDs