How can Lucy (White) Corker be the wife of William Corker?

Question

Currently Lucy White [White-7713] is listed as one of the wives of William Corker [Corker-16], born in 1630.  It lists a marriage date of 1650, but that was eight years before Lucy was born.  Either Lucy has a different birth year or she wasn't the wife of William Corker, not withstanding what is listed on the profiles.

Comments

Lucy's birth year was listed as 1628 at the creation of the profile.  It was later changed to 1658 . Neither entry had a source. The bio still shows the birth as 1628.  It was the data that was changed.

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Thanks Karen

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In both Boddie works cited on this profile of William Corker (there are duplicates running about), he lists two wives of William. The second he lists as an Elizabeth White. Citations are on the profile. If his earlier 1938 work lists Lucy that probably stems from undocumented statements found in two sources (Tyler's Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography and an issue of William and Mary Historical Quarterly).

Answer 1

Lucy Corker is mentioned in a book ( Boddie, John Bennett,. Seventeenth century Isle of Wight County, Virginia : a history of the county of Isle of Wight, Virginia, during the seventeenth century, including abstracts of the county records. Chicago: Chicago Law Print. Co., 1938. Page 213. ) as being the wife of William Corker and sister to John White. It doesn't give any information further on her, and mentions her husband's will being made in Surry on 14 Sep 1677. Getting a copy of that will might give you more information, it's probably available online somewhere.

Answer 2

See this G2G thread which is an attempt to clean up many errors in the early Corker lineage as well as many duplicate profiles: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/984988/want-to-help-clean-up-early-virginia-corker-family