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Elizabeth _______ was born about 1625 (assuming she was 20 at her estimated date of marriage). Her specific origins and parents are unknown, although there is one secondary source that states her last name at birth was Partridge. (See Research Notes)
She married William Spooner by about 1646.[1].
They had the following child:
She died April 28, 1648 in Plymouth.[3][4]
Disputed Parents: See the 2015 G2G, Is there any evidence for the parents of Elizabeth Partridge?
The only secondary source located which provides reasoning for Elizabeth Partridge's surname is Records of William Spooner, which states that her name was recalled by a relative in a later century[5]. Her last name appears to be Partridge.[6] There is no evidence to support the supposition that she was a daughter of John Partridge and Jane Hogg. (See her G2G thread for details.)[7]
Bristol County, Massachusetts. According to Wikipedia, Bristol County, Massachusetts was founded 2 June 1685, from parts of Plymouth County.
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Can I therefore recommend that we correct Elizabeth's LNAB from "Patridge" to "Partridge", for which at least we have some cited reference sources?
I would prefer to see her as Elizabeth Unknown.
Between your comment and our G2G, believe we can proceed.
Personally, I'd suggest we add Partridge as an "other last name." -- Gene
Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the colony of New Plymouth, in New England, 12 vols. (Boston : Press of W. White, 1855-61), 8:5 (1648. Plym Register of Mariages & Burialls); digital images, Hathi Trust, "Elizabeth Spooner, the wife of William Spooner, died the twenty eight of April [1648]."
Shurtleff notes that the first book of birth, marriages and burial records is lost, and early pages of those extant are tattered. John Spooners birth notice did not appear in the Plymouth registers there for 1647 or 1648--might this suggest that, assuming John Spooner was Elizabeth's son, he was born prior to 1647?
William Spooner (___-1684) entries, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015), 2:1424 (Spooner); database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
edited by GeneJ X
The real question is, why wasn't she renamed Elizabeth Unknown? The hearsay of a distant cousin (well second cousin once removed I think), in a book written 50 years after the death of an informant giving information on someone who died almost 200 years before his own death, is not good enough to establish a LNAB.
edited by GeneJ X
In the course of this thread: http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/130837/is-there-any-evidence-for-the-parents-of-elizabeth-partridge ...
... it was noticed that Elizabeth's name was misspelled as Partridge. By merging Partridge-40 into Patridge-109 we can fix her spelling. I created Patridge-109 as a virtual copy of Partridge-40, except for the name...
Do you mind executing the merge into Patridge-109?
Thanks! Daphne