What to do with this profile

Question

This is a profile of Ichabod Davis that was presumably created from information derived from records relating to other people of the same name, including Ichabod Davis b.1676: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Davis-4868

What should be done with this profile? I imagine information gradually being consolidated into the same profile. There are multiple generations with the same name and spouse: the spouses name is often Suzy/ Susanna, sometimes called Kirby, or Dollard. See also this unsourced Geni tree, also including the name Kirby, but as a mother rather than spouse of Ichabod. https://www.geni.com/people/Rees-Davis-Esq/6000000007239368525

Information connecting to the documented family of Rees Davis of Tickenham presumably derives from the following book: https://archive.org/details/davisfamiliesofe00rock/page/28/mode/1up

Rees Davis has a sourced profile on wikitree: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Davis-9543 but also happens to be duplicated as a father of Ichabod: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Davis-6395

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Parish records related to Ichabod Davis (familysearch): 

Icabad Davis b. 1 Apr 1676 Roxbury Boston Suffolk, Mass. son of Wm; bur. 16 Mar 1754 Roslindale Suffolk, Mass.?

Ichabod Davis m. Mebitabel Chandier 28 Feb 1717 Amesbury Essex, Mass.

Icabod Daves b. 12 Jun 1728, Falmouth, Barnstaple, Mass. (bur. 9 Feb 1802 aged 78?)m. Abigail Grewah 28 Feb 1750, Falmouth Barnstaple, Mass.

Ichabod Davis b. 3 May 1741 Marblehead, Essex, Mass. son of Tho & Eliz.

Ichabod Davis, b. 8 Jul 1741, Little Compton, Rhode Island

Ichabod Davis, b. 17 Mar 1763, Little Compton, Rhode Island

Ichabod Davis b. 21 Feb 1755 Amesbury, Essex, Mass. son of Fras & Eliz.

Ichabod Davis m. Barbery/Barbary Soule /Sowle 15 Sep 1781 Freetown, Bristol, Mass.

Ichabod Davis m. Delilah Randall 22 Jan 1785

Answer 1

The original profile was created as Ichabod Davis, b. 1569 in Bennefield, Northamptonshire England, died there 1603, son of Rees Davis-6395 and Katherine (Unknown-86689) Kirby, without sources cited. If there are other iterations of this profile on the web, it will reappear. 

Why are you trying to make him into a man who lived in the colonial US? I think the better strategy is to strip him back to the original form, and if no sources are found to support that he existed, add the {{Uncertain Existence}} template.

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Hi, you will notice everyone with this particular name was related to a family in colonial America. I am not trying to turn it into everything- I am just investigating where the information, including the name, potentially comes from.

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It may be worth investigating these, as it appears he would be part of the unproven ancestry of Dollar Davis:

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/204985/dolar-davis-pgm-remove-parents-remove-son-nicholas

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Davis-187