Could somebody look at Lord-1379, I think lnab is wrong.

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I stumbled across this profile while looking for a different Mary Lord and got stuck here like a fly in amber.  I'm almost certain Ephraim Hubbard's wife was Mary Miller, not Mary Lord but I haven't been able to find anything definitive so I'm not quite sure enough to change the lnab from Lord to Miller.  I have no access to Ancestry so I haven't looked there.

Mary Miller was the daughter of William Miller & Mary Bushnell who are also buried in the Green Cemetery in Glastonbury.

Any help would be appreciated so I can go back to looking for the other one.

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Hi Robin

Thank you for the response,  Unfortunately I was not very clear with the question.  

I had seen that birth record.  I'm sure there was a Mary Miller, daughter of William & Mary but I haven't been able to document it was this Mary who married Ephraim Hubbard.  FindaGrave seems definitive but we all know it's not perfect and there are a lot of unsourced trees out there that state Ephraim's wife was Mary Lord.  What I'd like to see is a marriage record, an obituary, or a child's birth or death record that shows the mother's maiden name.

I may be asking for a high standard here but in a quick WT Family Tree Search I found four Mary Lords born late 17th century in New England, (three of them orphan files) that needed to be fixed.  Seems they deserve better from us.

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Great response, Jennifer, yes, that is what we should be looking for to assure ourselves which woman he actually married.

Answer 1

"Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLMW-8RCP : 9 December 2019), Mary, 1696.

Her birth record, and yes, the name should be Miller, not Lord.

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Also, there is a lot of misleading information on the internet.  I just read through his will and he names only 5 children.   Ephraim Jr, would not have been named as he did die the year before his father.   The children named are Jonathan, Martha Smalley, Mary Kimberly, Hepzibah Goodrich and Sarah Goodrich.   I think if those children are documented, we may find something to prove the wife's name.   Also, I normally turn to DAR records, and nothing is in that file to prove her name either.