How can Sarah Chapman d. 1738 be listed as the parent of Dan Chapman b. 1744/1745?

Question

I have found a listing for Sarah Chapman death being 1738. she was married to John and there is a son listed as being born in 1744/1745 and his mother being Sarah and his father being John.  Saybrook, Conn.   

I found another listing on a genealogy tree that says she died before 1808.  not real clear.   

How can she have had a son after she died?   searching for definitive proof of her death date.

Comments

Hi Martha,

I was unable to find any of the profiles you mentioned above on WikiTree.  We do have a "Dan" but it is not the correct one you mention.  The only Daniel we have born in 1744 has a mother named Marcy, not Sarah.  I looked a few other directions too, but to no avail.

You you possibly help identify where on WikiTree this information is posted?  We'd like to help get it corrected.

Thank you!

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If it's on another Website, It's still obviously faulty information but not something I'm able to help correct :)

Answer 1

Too put things in perspective ,This is 20 years before Revolutionary War

with England.Another issue is there can be many people with same names

in a given area.Family trees often often are long on names,but very short

on facts and sources,There is a record,Connecticut Town Birth Records

Pre 1870  Barbour Collection.Dan Chapman Born Jan 26 1744,Father John,

Mother Sarah.Have not found there records.

Answer 2

There is always the possibility that a Sarah, wife of John died and he remarried another Sarah.

This Sarah (Brown) Chapman died 1738, but at Stonington, CT, has no child named Daniel.  http://www.wikitree.com/treewidget/Brown-4361/300

Not sure this is the profile you are referencing?