Is he Elizabeth's real husband?

Question

About [[Sherwood-5667| Elizabeth]], we only have a record of when she married a George Farquhar. According to her great-grandson Payson, George was born in Scotland on April 13, 1745, married and lived in Charleston, and joined the loyalist volunteers at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. He died in the siege of Savannah on 20 September 1779. Now there would be this profile [[Farquhar-93 | George Farquhar]] that I would like to consider, but I am unable to follow the link to Ancestry to understand better. Can anyone advise me?

Answer 1

Which link to Ancestry please?

Comments

Under this profile [[Farquhar-93]] can be read as a reference :

Name

Name: George /Farquhar/^[1]

Sources

• WikiTree profile Farquhar-93 created through the import of Byler Family 2012-09-12.ged on Sep 14, 2012 by Mayme Byler. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Mayme and others.

• Source: S96 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; Repository: #R1 NOTEThis information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.
• Repository: R1 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com E-Mail Address: Phone Number:

Notes

Note N644

1. ↑ Source: #S96 Page: Ancestry Family Trees Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=21636552&pid=426 Note: #N644

Answer 2

Hi Gio. As you point out, the profile Farquhar-93 contains exactly one Ancestry link, namely

http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=21636552&pid=426

Unfortunately, this does not go anywhere any more. It is an old style Ancestry link which has been phased out, and there doesn't seem to be any obvious way to translate it into their new format.

However by an independent search I found a suitable George Farquhar. Do you have an Ancestry subscription? Try this link. If not I'll try to provide some details.

Comments

Here is one current Ancestry record:

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/86933680/person/30546079496/facts

As usual of course this is not a suitable source to use on WikiTree, but it may lead to useful sources.

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Oh thanks! I can't read the whole second tab, because I don't have an Ancestry subscription, but birth and marriage seem to coincide. I don't know about the parents. Maybe, if you could read their names. . ?

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From another Ancestry record, namely

https://www.ancestry.com.au/family-tree/person/tree/164907205/person/412195823977/facts

here is a marriage reference:

<ref>Via South Carolina, U.S., Compiled Marriage Index, 1641-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2005. George Farquhar, Eliz Sharwood. 5 February 1770. {{Ancestry Record|7840|362718}}. Image not available. Retrieved 15 June 2021.</ref>

I'll have a look for parents.

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There are 236 Ancestry trees including this George Farquhar. I've looked at a small number of them. They mainly give his birthdate as 13 April 1745, but they disagree on parent names, and none I've looked at gives a source reference for the birth I'm afraid. The most popular idea seems to be father William Farquhar 1710-1770 and mother Rebecca May 1720-1780, but without a proper source these are not at all solid. My guess is that a lot of the Ancestry trees are relying on each other

I also tried FamilySearch, but apart from the same marriage record as on Ancestry, he doesn't seem to be there.

Answer 3

thank you very much! What would you do at this point? would you name Farquhar-93 as Sherwood-5667's husband, as I would like to do, or is it better not?

Comments

The only documentary connection so far seems to be that a George Farquhar married an Elizabeth Sherwood in South Carolina in 1770. Neither name is unique. Sorry to be a wet blanket but personally I would say that there is not yet enough evidence that this was the right George Farquhar. Pending the discovery of further concrete records, I would put research notes on both profiles suggesting the possibility that they married.