Col. William Waters - Too many wives, again

Cleaned up Margaret Waters - *she* isn't fictional, nor her first husband, but any children attributed to her probably are).

Disconnected Margaret Waters and Margaret Waters because they don't belong. More research is needed to determine where - and if - they fit. (Note: middle names were *quite rare* in this time period and usually indicate some sort of Bad Genealogy.)

Disconnected Thomas Waters, [Fictional?] - he probably belongs in the upper reaches of the Philemon Waters line, but exactly where is uncertain. Note that his alleged birth place is *quite impossible* it wouldn't even exist until well into the next century.

This lot, descended from Morgan William Waters (putative son of Margaret Waters) are of particular interest because they have a Y-DNA test result attached.

Unfortunately, it's neither I (Waters of Anne Arundel) nor R (Philemon Waters) - it's J.

That probably means they were a separate emigration to the Province of Carolina (created 1629 but not officially established until 1663, see details at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Carolina). Georgia, as such, wasn't carved out of the territory until 1732.

I came across this profile, same name and same wife but nothing else matches. It's odd two same-name men would have married women with the same name, but I didn't try to merge them because of the other data that doesn't match. Not sure if they're the same man or not.

Morgan William Waters

Looks like somebody else wasn't as cautious. "They" are now merged.

don't think we *do* know who his mother was - and even if she was a Margaret (a fairly common name), she probably wasn't a Robins (not so common).

Here we go with the middle names in the middle of the 17th century again. This was still *very rare* except for special circumstances (posthumous son, twentieth child, stuff like that).

"John William Walter Waters, Sr."? Col. William Waters

This guy has been lumbered with way too many names! The first known example of anything like *that*, and it's a mystery to all why his parents did that to him, is "George Robert Twelves/Twelvetrees Hughes", participant in the Boston Tea Party in 1773.

Maven B. Helms, thank goodness for people like you who do the deep digging to keep our trees honest. I worry about this sort of thing every time I get a notice that someone has merged something into my tree.