A birth date (Fairchild-538 born 4 Nov 1734) should not be within eight months of a sibling's birth date (Fairchild-546 born 6 May 1734) unless they are twins born within a day of each other.
Biography
Keturah was born in 1734, daughter of Zachariah Fairchild and Deborah Fairchild. She married Philip Hathaway at the First Presbyterian Church of Morristown, Morris, New Jersey 20 Feb 1755[1] where all their children were baptized and the shown marriages performed. Notice that the dates shown are baptimal dates, not birth dates. They had a total of fourteen children:
Shadrock bpt 16 May 1754
Bethia Bpt 17 Apr 1757
Mary Bpt 25 Jan 1758 m. Joshua Badger
Abigail Bpt 15 Jun 1760
David Bpt 14 Feb 1762
Catherine Bpt 26 Jul 1766
Jonathan Bpt 26 Jul 1766
Rhoda Bpt 26 Jul 1766
Hannah Bpt 17 Apr 1768 m. Roger Clements
Unnamed Bpt 10 May 1770
Unnamed Bpt 21 Feb 1771
Unnamed Bpt 30 Mar 1772
Philip Bpt 20 Aug 1773
Philip Bpt 22 May 1777
She died 29 Sep 1777 in Montgomery, Kentucky
Sources
↑ "New Jersey Marriages, 1678-1985," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ5B-8VM : 10 February 2018), Philip Hathaway and Catura Fairchild, 20 Feb 1755; citing 899,807
Morristown Presbyterian Church, Morristown, Morris, New Jersey on 20 February 1754,
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Keturah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Keturah:
Fairchild-2214 and Fairchild-538 appear to represent the same person because: Despite the spelling of the names, I think it is obvious that these are the same person. They married the equivalent person and their children match my children list and some of them overlap between these entered here. More merges will be proposed for all such.
Thank you.