Richard Waterman

Richard Waterman married 16 Apr 1569 Joane Barnatt in Wivelsfield, Sussex, England (Source: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NVF3-PXZ)

A Richard and Elizabeth Waterman had a son Thomas Waterman per a death record for a Thomas Waterman who died 6 Aug 1743 in Halden, Kent, England (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JD72-VLH). This Thomas who died nearly 200 years after the above marriage record and clearly has no relationship to this Richard. This death record is what was used to construct the bogus Waterman tree on Framilysearch.org and was probably used as a source to construct the tree on GENI (which is no disconnected). Clearly Richard Waterman of Wivelsfield, Sussex,was not a farther to Thomas Waterman Norwich.The source of the maiden name of Elizabeth shown here as Rice is not seen.