I would like to open a discussion about the parentage of Robert Harrington, II. I read the findagrave notes and a paragraph said that a respected genealogist proved that neither John nor James were Robert's father. I then found this on rootsweb (note the sources):
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=pjmpj...
ID: I58418
Name: Robert HARRINGTON
Given Name: Robert
Surname: Harrington
Suffix: Jr. ("the Immigrant")
Name: Robert HERINGTON
Given Name: Robert
Surname: Herington aka 1 2
Sex: M
_UID: EB91376E8DF8584B858373C30D39DC0CB5FF
Change Date: 30 NOV 2008
Birth: BEF 1 OCT 1616 in Southwold, Suffolk, England, UK 1 3
Death: 11 MAY 1707 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA U. S. A.
Note: His death is recorded as 17 May 1707 but his gravestone is inscribed with 11 May 1707. 1 4 5
Residence: Watertown, Middlesex, MA U. S. A. 1 6
HintsAncestry Hints for Robert HERINGTON
6 possible matches found on Ancestry.com Ancestry.com
Father: Robert HARRINGTON b: BEF 1595
Mother: Joan JENTILMAN b: ABT 1598
Marriage 1 Susannah GEORGE b: ABT 1632
Married: 1 OCT 1649 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA U. S. A.
Note:
from TORREY:
HERINGTON, Robert (1616-1707) & Susan/?Susanna GEORGE (ca 1632-1694); 1 Oct 1649, prob 1648; Watertown
2 1 7 8 9 10 11 12 6 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Children
Has No Children Susanna HARRINGTON
Has No Children John HARRINGTON
Has No Children Robert HARRINGTON
Has No Children George HARRINGTON
Has No Children Daniel HARRINGTON
Has No Children Joseph HARRINGTON
Has No Children Benjamin HARRINGTON
Has No Children Mary HARRINGTON
Has No Children Thomas HARRINGTON
Has No Children Samuel HARRINGTON
Has No Children Edward HARRINGTON
Has Children Sarah HARRINGTON b: 10 MAY 1671 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA U. S. A.
Has No Children David HARRINGTON
Sources:
Abbrev: Torrey's New England Marriages
Title:
New England Marriages Prior To 1700
Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior To 1700 (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1985)
Repository:
Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, MA 02116
U. S. A.
Repository:
Name: Patrick McDonald Personal Library
Dural, NSW 2158
AUSTRALIA
Abbrev: Harrington (1958)
Title: Frederick Lewis Weis, Early Generations of the Family of Robert Harrington of Watertown,Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants (Worcester, MA: privately printed, 1958)
Repository:
Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, MA 02116
U. S. A.
Page: p. 15
Abbrev: Harrington (1958)
Title: Frederick Lewis Weis, Early Generations of the Family of Robert Harrington of Watertown,Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants (Worcester, MA: privately printed, 1958)
Repository:
Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, MA 02116
U. S. A.
Page: pp. 15-6
Abbrev: Harrington (1958)
Title: Frederick Lewis Weis, Early Generations of the Family of Robert Harrington of Watertown,Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants (Worcester, MA: privately printed, 1958)
Repository:
Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, MA 02116
U. S. A.
Page: p. 16
Abbrev: Watertown VRs 1694-1737
Title: Watertown Records, Volume 2. The Third Book of Town Proceedings, and the Second Book of Births, Marriages and Deaths to the End of 1737; also plan and Register of Burials in Arlington Street Burying Ground (Watertown, MA: Historical Society of Watertown)
Page: p. 34
Abbrev: Watertown, MA Early Settlers
Title:
Early Settlers of Watertown, MA
Dr. Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts (1860)
Repository:
Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, MA 02116
U. S. A.
Page: Vol. 1, p. 272
Abbrev: Britton (1901)
Title: Edward Earle Britton, Genealogy Britton (Brooklyn, NY: J. W. Gunnison & Company, 1901)
Repository:
Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, MA 02116
U. S. A.
Page: pp. 22-3
Abbrev: Ackley-Bosworth
Title: N. G. Parke and D. L. Jacobus, The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth (1960)
Repository:
Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, MA 02116
U. S. A.
Page: p. 263
Abbrev: Bridges Anc. (1960)
Title: Samuel Willard Bridges, Bridges Genealogy including Britton, DeNike (Boston, MA: George H. Ellis & Company, 1960)
Repository:
Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, MA 02116
U. S. A.
Page: p. 103
Abbrev: Stevens-Miller
Title:
Ancestry of Col. John Harrington Stevens & his Wife Frances Helen Miller
Mary Lovering Holman, Ancestry of Col. John Harrington Stevens & his wife Frances Helen Miller, 2 vols. -- also Torrey, C.A., "Notes and Corrections to Stevens-Miller Genealogy (1948)" (n.p., 1949), typescript (Concord, NH: Rumford Press, 1948-52)
Repository:
Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, MA 02116
U. S. A.
Page: p. 151, p. 160 and p. 166
Abbrev: Bigelow-Howe
Title: Josephine C. Frost, Ancestors of Charles Dana Bigelow and His Wife, Eunice Ann Howe (NY: Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1926)
Repository:
Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, MA 02116
U. S. A.
Page: p. 67 and p. 73
Abbrev: Warner-Harrington
Title: Frederick Chester Warner, "The Ancestry of Samuel Freda and John Warner," 5 vols. (Boston, MA: typescript 1949, 1955)
Repository:
Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, MA 02116
U. S. A.
Page: p. 229 and p. 283
Abbrev: Bridge
Title: Bridge, William Dawson (et al.), Genealogy of the John Bridge Family in America 1632-1924 (Cambridge, Mass.: The Murray Printing Co., 1924)
Repository:
Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, MA 02116
U. S. A.
Page: p. 28
Abbrev: Edwards (1887)
Title: Gifford, Elizabeth Edwards, Our Patronymics. . . . ([Auburn, N.Y.: Jewhurst & Plumb], 1886)
Repository:
Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, MA 02116
U. S. A.
Page: p. 7
Abbrev: Shurtleff
Title: Benjamin Shurtliff, Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts (Revere, MA: 1912)
Repository:
Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, MA 02116
U. S. A.
Page: Vol. 1, p. 675
Abbrev: Hinckley Anc. (1928)
Title: Myrtle Tedrow Emberson, One Hundred and One Ancestors of John Fay Hinckley (Los Angeles, CA: 1928)
Repository:
Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, MA 02116
U. S. A.
Page: p. 39 and p. 84
Abbrev: Utah Genealogical Magazine
Title: The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine (Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Genealogical Society, 1910)
Repository:
Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, MA 02116
U. S. A.
Page: p. 19
Abbrev: Newton (1915)
Title: Ermina Newton Leonard, Newton Genealogy : Genealogical, Biographical, Historical (New Haven, CT: Press of the Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1915)
Repository:
Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, MA 02116
U. S. A.
Page: p. 229
Abbrev: Warren (1894)
Title: Huntington, Charles White, The Warren-Clarke Genealogy : a Record of Persons Related within the Sixth Degree to the Children of Samuel Dennis Warren and Susan Cornelia Clarke (Cambridge: J. Wilson & Son, 1894)
Repository:
Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, MA 02116
U. S. A.
If y'all agree, I'd like to change the father to Robert Harrington and mother to Joan Jentilman.
