Alice Johnson (Bennett) - @Alice Johnson (Bennett)

Since she has a child and husband attached, the best technical solution is to detach (the former Alice Bennett) from not-her-parents Thomas Bennett, of Mulberry Creek & Alice Elizabeth Pierce Bennett - and rename her as wife of Johnson. Which I have now done.

I think this all fell into place now, with help from your other note about Robert Johnson

Take a look.

Also, watch out for "Thomas Bennett" - there were at least two of him.

I see this is another place where somebody came along *after* I had the family all tidied up, and mess-merged it. This is very frustrating.

People, somebody DID mash-merge the two Thomas Bennetts - and also Richard Bennett the Governor and Richard Bennett NOT the Governor!!! Yes there WERE two of EACH of them!!!!!

FIX IT!!!

Richard Bennett the Governor was NOT born in Virginia and was NOT a son of Thomas Bennett of Mulberry Island. His dates are 6 August 1609 – 12 April 1675, and he was born in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England. His parentage is uncertain but thought to have been Thomas Bennett (1570–1616) and Antsie Tomson of Wiveliscombe. One rather suspects his uncle Edward (1577 – bef. 1651) had the raising of him - at all events, *this* Richard Bennett arrived in Virginia as an adult circa 1626 under his uncle's auspices, and was accordingly quite successful.

Richard Bennett NOT the Governor *was* born in Virginia, date debatable, mother debatable, father known to be Thomas Bennett of Mulberry Island.

http://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/shipnamesBa.htm

Bennett Thomas Bona Nova 1618
Benett, Thomas - muster at Neck-of-Land near James City. Wife Margery on the Gift. (Hotten, p. 230

Bennett Thomas Neptune unk (before 1624)
Bennett, Thomas, aged 38 at muster at Besses Choyce, listed with Mary aged 18 on Southhampton, Roger Heford and Benjamin Simes. (Hotten, p. 242)

*Neither one* was the father of Richard Bennett the Governor - one of them, uncertain which one, was probably the father of Richard Bennett NOT the Governor.

Maven, can you give a try at looking at the revisions tab and identifying which was the bad merge?

Seems to have more to do with Alice than Thomas, actually, but I can't put my finger on exactly how it came about.

Richard Bennett the Governor has somehow become attached to this tree and he has to come off.

Simplest thing to do is shell him out and merge him with Richard NOT the Governor. He's not attached to any of the Governor's relatives (as far as I can tell) and has merely acquired his dates.

Too many wives and children on too many people. Thomas Bennett has been lumbered with an "unknown" wife and a Peter Bennet who was probably not his son (parents unknown). Margery (wife of the Thomas Bennett at Neck-of-Land) has had four children added who are apparently relatives of Richard (the Governor) Bennett. Richard NOT the Governor has five wives and seven children, some of whom are probably duplicates.

And so on and on and on....

Here's Peter, just in case we need to find him again: Peter Bennett, of Bristol

Robert the Governor's family tree is a mess too, because no one seems to know whether his mother was an Anstie Spicer, an Antsie Tomson, or an Alice somebody.

I kicked Margery's not-children off onto Thomas Bennett, of Wiveliscombe, who now needs to be merged with Thomas Bennett, of Wiveliscombe and some consensus arrived as to wife's name.

Merge completed but I still think he needs to be ID'ed as "Thomas Bennett of Wiveliscombe" to keep him away from the Virginia Thomas Bennetts. And sorting out the children is going to be a nasty chore....

Katherine Johnson may have been one of the culprits, she had been merged into the Bennetts.

I will label in a second.

I really don't believe Alice Pierce Bennett had a middle name of "Elizabeth" - middle names were not A Thing until the middle 18th century as a rule.

Is there documentation for her birth name as "Snayle"?