G2G: Question on Katharn (Lacye) Garner (1610-1636)

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Regarding Katharn (Lacye) Garner

How certain, and are there primary sources, for the name "Lacye" attached to "Katharn, a Welshwoman"? I've seen her attached to a Thomas? (going off of memory) Lacye of near Canterbury, Kent. If she was a Welshwoman, Welsh patronymic naming practices would have referred to her as "ferch Thomas" or "verch Thomas", not "Lacye". If Thomas Lacye were an Englishman living in Wales, she could have taken his surname or been called "verch Thomas Lacye". But I've seen her attachment to the Lacye family only on electronic database files, not sourced to a primary source. 

WikiTree profile: Katharn Garner
in Genealogy Help by G2G-1 (1.9k points)
retagged by Living Cayley

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Hi Jay,

I’ll see if I can find anything, however my first reaction on reading the profiles is the she and her husband should not have been attached as parents of John the emigrant. There is an absolute trove of conflicting evidence well documented on Johns profile, including debate as to whether he was even born in England.

There is a disputed parents notice on this profile, and therefore the parents should not have been attached unless some new evidence has been found (which apparently it hasn’t, since the biography was last updated).

A few papers, I’ve just read say the primary records don’t exist, possibly, lost, destroyed or fabricated. Also Richard Garner appears to have married Katharn. She was not Lacey. He had a brother who married Mary Lacey, who was also accused of witchcraft.

Lizzie

(Edited to include Mary Lacey)
by Owl (144k points)
edited by Lizzie Griffiths

Thank you for answering my question. I'd send you a Wiki "thank you" but don't see a button or link to do that. I'm not a newbie to genealogy, but I am re: Wikitree.

Regards

JG

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