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The LDS Ancestral File lists her surname as Green. There are problems with this attribution, though, as outlined in the following email message:
From: "Tina Borrus"
To: alfreyfamily
Subject: [Alfrey Genealogy] John Alfrey's Wife, Barbara Ann ____
Date: Wed, Jan 26, 2000, 1:21 AM
"I've seen several posts, plus the information on the LDS site, that postulate that the wife of John Alfrey was Barbara or Barbara Ann Green, the daughter of James and Frances (Frankey) Green of Loudoun County, VA. I don't think this could be correct. While James and Frankey had a daughter named Ann, she was married to Elihu Harding and died before 1823, before Elihu's death in 1831. None of the other daughters' names even comes close to Barbara or Ann.
In addition, John and Barbara Ann's daughter Mary/Polly Alfrey married Fielding Green in 1812. Fielding was the son of James and Frankey and would have been Polly Alfrey's uncle if Barbara Ann was his sister.
What other surnames have been proposed for Barbara Ann, wife of John Alfrey, and what evidence have they been based on?"
James Green’s Will, written in 1788, mentioned all his living children, including the two he disinherited. It did not mention anyone named Barbary Ann. For this reason, she has been detached from her previous parents James Green and Lucy Martin.
No sources found list a middle name of Ann or otherwise.
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Categories: Alfrey Cemetery, Morehead, Kentucky | Southern Pioneers
Green-18649 and Green-5752 appear to represent the same person because: Hi again - if these are intended to represent the same person, please merge. From what I've been reading of your posts, they are (but her maiden name wasn't Green?). Thanks!
P.S. For you to change the LNAB of Green-5752, I'll need to remove PPP - just let me know if you need me to do that.
edited by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
edit - I had the wrong link for Benjamin Watkins. It's right now.
edited by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
Green-5752 and Green-29278 appear to represent the same person because: same dates/locations & one's married to Alfrey while the other has Alrey children. Please merge. Thanks!
edited by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
I've been researching the Green issue over the last few months. I have found records that suggest Barbary's maiden name was Johnson. I don't have enough information to feel 100% confident in that, but will continue to research.
I have also found a suggestion that she may have been married to a Joseph Kring, likely before John, who is listed as deceased at 45 years old.
Something is definitely off about the relationship between John and Barbary, simply because there are four children with dates of birth prior to their marriage date.
I will continue to research and keep the situation updated as best as I can.
deleted by Stacy (Groff) Groff-Alfrey
Thanks!
I do believe this profile should have an Unknown LNAB, which would require removal of the PPP. Once that is done, will the PPP be restored? My concern is that there is so much unsourced information about this particular person out there that has just been accepted as fact and we will end up right where we started if there is no PPP status.
I don't know enough about projects yet to be confident with my knowledge of how they work.
The LNAB definitely needs to be "UNKNOWN", but please let me know if the profile will be protected beyond that. Thank you!
Stacy
Cheers, Liz
P.S. To see what PPP protects, see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Project_Protection
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