why cant we find parents for william slack married to mary stock 1660

Question

All family trees that have slack-141and stock-40 all have the same information no one can seem to find the parents of William slack know places of residency Slacks place Swansea Suffolk England ,Bristol Rehoboth Massachusetts ,Hingham Plymouth Massachusetts, Weymouth Norfolk Massachusetts

Answer 1

William Slack

Birth

1657

Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

Death

1727

Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States

Family Info

Father

THOMAS SLACK (1630-1670)

 

Mother

BETTY MEDCLAF (1625-)

Spouse

Mary Buttom (1661-1727)
Married 1683 

Children

William (1683-1683) 

John (1686-1728) 

Samuel (1687-1714) 

Thomas (1690-1727) 

Benjamin (1692-1760) 

Mary (1692-1727) 

Elizabeth (1694-1753) 

Joseph (1694-)

http://person.ancestry.com/tree/12023182/person/609208102/story

Here some information I found

 

Best of luck on your searching

Comments

Thank you

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I would love to see your sources for this information.  I have been searching for information on William for many, many years.   m

Answer 2

William may have been born in England, possibly in Yorkshire, but so far no records have been found showing when he arrived in Massachusetts, or when his father arrived in Massachusetts.

Answer 3

My theory is this: The "Stock" in Mary Stock was a mis-transcribed "Slack" from some almost illegible source that someone construed as her maiden name, when it wasn't.  Several collections from Ancestry.com show Mary's actual maiden name to be Lewis, 1661-1734, dau. of John Lewis and Ann Lanphere. In FamilySearch (my primary site), there is a Mary Stock m. to William Slack, but her birth record source shows as b. 1645 in England.  Impossible to believe she was then, but only married in 1683 in Massachusetts and began having children up to 1692.  I think Mary Stock is a totally fictitious person that has gained some semblance of legitimacy through sheer repetition of the original mistake.  Show me a PRIMARY source record that proves otherwise!  Sad to say, I simply cannot find that primary source record ... yet ... proving either Mary Lewis or Mary Stock as the wife of William Slack.

Comments

Most who have been searching this family for years have reached the same conclusion about the name Stock for William's wife.  I have searched for a Stock family in early Massachusetts, and have yet to find one.  As for Lewis being her name, I doubt that too.  John Lewis and Ann Lanphere (and there is confusion about her being a Lanphere) were from Rhode Island, and their daughter Abigail married Samuel Slack, son of William and Mary, in Westerly, RI.