Elizabeth WILLIAMS (Palmer) - Death and burial appear inconsistent

Craig Andrew Miles - look first at data conflicts.

https://www.geni.com/merge/resolve/6000000003243374919

If you can, just resolve the column furthest to the left, and edit out the impossible burial location.

This is an incoherent tree. I go down and see more geographies that make no sense. Where exactly to start?

Good, that’s progress.

John Williams, of Haverhill Needs checking.

My 8th great grandfather. Not my mother's paternal Williams family from Taunton, but a separate Williams family.

https://www.geni.com/path/Hatte-Blejer+is+related+to+John-Williams?from=6000000003496914092&path_type=blood&to=6000000000484694580

Worth checking TGMB

I can’t find this John Williams in Anderson’s The Great Migration Begins (1620-1633), probably because his first record is at Newbury in 1640. He could be covered in Alice Crane Williams, Early Families of New England Study Project, but I didn’t find him in a quick search at https://www.americanancestors.org/publications/early-new-england-re...

So it seems like the best family study is still the 1906 one:

NEHGR vol. 62, no. 2 (April 1908): pages 184-191. The Family of John Williams of Newbury and Haverhill, Mass., by Cornelia Bartow Williams. < AmericanAncestors.org > (document attached) (first two pages)

I uploaded it to profiles and cleaned up the family group based on it, as well as the original “Gulbangi 5 families” we had used (http://www.gulbangi.com/5families-o/p541.htm#i13524 - holds up decently, but incomplete). And added more citations and biography.

Torrey’s New England Marriages before 1700 shows “WILLIAMS, John (-1667) & 2/wf? Jane ____ (-1680); by 1630; …

There is no evidence I can find to support Jane Williams as daughter of Robinson Gould & Ann Gould or with a maiden name of ‘Gould;” it seems to come from the old Ancestral File (user submitted pedigrees at FamilySearch). I’ve detached Jane from them.

There probably really was a John Williams, son of John Williams, of Salem & Elizabeth Williams but the reason they look to have been connected as parents in submitted pedigrees is the “coincidence” of Newbury in England and Newbury in Massachusetts. I’ve detached John Williams from them.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Williams-4853 has an origin theory posted in comments that he’s the same man as https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Williams-58651. There’s a https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/peaslee/172/ study showing Peaslees who settled in Haverhill. But this seems to need a lot more research.

The old families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts ; with some related families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich and Hampton, by Hoyt, David Webster, 1833-1921 (1897), page 360 < Archive.Org > has nothing on origins.

In reviewing the profile for Elizabeth (Palmer) Williams I realized her “husband” John Williams birth date and location actually match John Williams, of Salem and that matched with what some of the profile managers were pursuing. So I merged that John (of Berkshire in England), a speculative parent of John of Haverhill, into the real person baptized in Great Yarmouth, John Williams, of Salem The name of his wife isn’t known, and the children I found a list for don’t seem to have the right dates.

I was not able to find the original profile for the John Williams who died March 25, 1650 at Newbury, Berkshire, England.

There is an old tree which seems to account for (some) of what Elizabeth (Palmer) Williams was supposed to be. I’ve copied that text into her profile, but I I don’t think it should be utilized in any way.