Sarah (Vann) Hodges - Parents

Started by Debbie Gambrell on Tuesday, July 18, 2023
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I believe the parents now connected to this Sarah Vann are incorrect. In fact, her profile notes state:

"Accounts vary wildly concerning Richard Hodge or Hodges and his wife (or wives) and children. Many show wife as Sarah Vann Wilkens... marriage dates range from 1720 to 1732, and places range from Isle of Wight County, Virginia to Bertie Co, North Carolina...! The names of the children seem to be listed fairly consistently, but then that could be because people have copied them over and over... ? I have done basically that, although some are better documented than others, and I have further speculated that there were two wives...one Sarah Vann and one Sarah Wilkins....I have absolutely no proof of this and it may very well be wrong, but it would explain why some marriage dates are 1720 or 1725 (which would corresponde well with the first two sons) and also shown as a marriage date is 1732 (which would be too late for the first two, but would be compatable with the very next son who was born abt 1732)... if anyone can help untangle this mess, please do."

which indicates the possibility that her husband Richard Hodges was married to both a Sarah Wilkens and a Sarah Vann. She has always been Sarah Vann on Geni every time I'd previously visited her profile.

Ancestry has this info attached to her:

Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015
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Record details
Name Sarah Vann
Gender f (Female)
Birth Date 1693
Birth Place New Kent, New Kent, Virginia, United States
Death Date 1760
Death Place Beaufort, North Carolina, United States
Death Age 67
Father William Vann
Mother Sarah Vann

Unless there is more certain documentation for who her parents actually were, it would be best not to attach speculative lineage to her that gives unproven pathways to other Geni connections.

Detached as daughter of Captain James William Wilkins & Ann Wilkins

Well, someone has reconnected the unproven parents for this Sarah. The first line of her profile notes clearly states:

Evidence needed to support as daughter of Captain William Wilkins & Ann Wilkins (Daniel)

Speculative connections shouldn't be made on Geni, as they give likely incorrect lineage, and everything in my post from July 2023 still applies.

Erica Howton maybe when you disconnect them this time you should, please, lock the fields so unproven parents can't be reconnected.

Thanks

Debbie Gambrell - done.

Thanks, Erica

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