Sorry if you're the wrong person to send this request to, but if so please be good enough to forward it to whoever is the appropriate person.
I'd like to edit the profile of William Crispin (1627-1681) to correct some wrong information about who his wife is/was, which error came from a a book by Rev. William Frost Crispin published in 1901 with the long title/shortened of Captain William Crispin of the British Navy . . . This erroneous information has been picked up and copied by many genealogists over the years but is nevertheless erroneous.
Rev. Crispin gives William Crispin's first wife as Anne Jasper and didn't supply any authority for this. However there is support that William Crispin's first wife was Rebecca Penn Bradshaw, who was William Penn's aunt, etc. as Crispin claimed Anne Jasper was. This support includes: (1) The portion of the English census for Lancashire county conducted in 1664-65 by Sir William Dougdale, one of two Kings of Arms for this county, whose report includes his genealogy of the Bradshaw family; (2) William Penn's Will, and (3) the naming of this couple's children which reflect family names in the Bradshaw family.
Since this is such a big change, and against long-established beliefs, I need your help or permission to make this change. I have a copy of the survey and I believe Penn's will is commonly available which I would like to send to you.
Hoping to hear from you as to how to proceed. Thank you
Carol Lillevang