Mary King - Husband

Started by Debbie Gambrell on Friday, September 10, 2021
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9/10/2021 at 9:13 PM

All the Ancesrry trees I've seen have her hussband as:


Sir William 2nd Lord Caulfield, Baron of Charlemont Caulfield

So I did some Googling and these sites also have Sir William Caulfield as her husband:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/169193743/mary-caulfield

https://famouskin.com/family-group.php?name=12256+william+caulfield...

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/King-17578

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L8QN-DNS/mary-king-1601-1658

This one even shows how Mary King and William Caulfield are the 11th great-grandparents of Prince Harry:

https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-chart.php?name=12258+william+caulf...

So I Googled Mary King and Gresham Caulfield and this shows she and William had a son named Gresham, but not the same date of birth as the one attached here as her husband:

Gresham Coffield was born in 1615, at birth place, to Knight William Caulfield and Mary Caulfield (born King). Knight was born in 1587, in Oxford, ...

So there are multiple Greshams and Williams in the family lines but the only husband I could find for Mary King is William, not Gresham

Based on these findings, I'm of the opinion that her husband needs to be corrected.

Thanks.

9/10/2021 at 9:22 PM

But there are other problemss that need sorting out. Mary King and her immediate family lived and died in Ireland. There's no way she had son Lt. Col. William Caufield who was born in Vriginia.

Her son Sir William Caufield lived and died in Ireland and somehow the two William Caufields have gotten mixed up. They're definitely from different families.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120625327/william-caulfeild%2C_...

So not only is Mary attached to the wrong husband, but

Lt. Col. William Caufield

isn't her son if he was born in America.

9/10/2021 at 9:23 PM

I think we should disconnect Lt. Col. William Caufield

from his parents and straight fresh trying to document his true parentage

9/10/2021 at 9:34 PM

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93407071/william-caufield

Has no parents listed for him

Wiki has no parents for him but also states he was born in England:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Caufield-25

Wiki states his father's name was 'probably' Gresham but also states that his parents are unknown at this time, so it's just speculation that his father's name was Gresham and there's not even specualtion about his mother's name.

So the connections as they are now are incorrect and give false pathways on Geni.

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