Elizabeth Watts (Ayers) - Ayers ancestor of Laura Ingalls Wilder error

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9/11/2012 at 2:37 PM

Hello managers of Elizabeth (Ayers) Watts b. 1659, your descendant line to the famous author Laura Ingalls Wilder has been hijacked by another family.

Here is the Samuel Watts husband of this Elizabeth Ayers (b. 1659) Samuel Watts, Sr

That Samuel Watts and the 1659 Elizabeth are the true parents of the Watts children who are incorrectly attached as children to Elizabeth Ayer (b. 1652). The famous descendant of this line was the eminent children's author, Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Somebody needs to attach this 1659 Elizabeth to that Samuel, and then to move the Watts children over to a new marriage of Samuel and Elizabeth b. 1659. The marriage date is correct, but it is attached to the wrong Elizabeth. And then the wrong Elizabeth, b. 1652, daughter of Robert Ayers, should be removed as wife of Samuel Watts.

Here is my proof below. Please copy this evidence into the main bio page for Elizabeth, to ward off any competing argument:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FH1L-5W1

Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910
Groom's Name: Sam Watts
Bride's Name: Eliz Ayers
Marriage Date: 28 Oct 1684
Marriage Place: Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts
Bride's Father's Name: Tho Ayers
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M02083-4
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 877468
Reference Number: 9

Note also that in the timeline you can see that the Watts and Clement children of the supposed Elizabeth b. 1652 are overlapping, as further proof that Elizabeth b. 1652 only had the Clement husband, and did not Samuel Watts as her husband. Elizabeth b. 1652 was clearly the mother only of the Clement children.

Attention the following managers of Elizabeth b. 1659:

Ric Dickinson, Geni Curator
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Sharon Ayer

Attention primary manager of Samuel Watts

Bryan Webster McGuire

Sharon Ayer

9/12/2012 at 3:23 PM

Thank you for the information. Greatly appreciated!

Private User

9/14/2012 at 5:29 PM

Okay, now the next step to resolve this is to create a duplicate profile for Samuel Watts as Elizabeth's husband. Then that profile can be merged wtih the other Samuel. That is how I would do it as a non-Pro.

Or if somebody here is a Pro, they can probably just attach the spouse to the Samuel who is showing to the upper left here under Profiles Mentioned.

Private User

9/16/2012 at 1:19 PM

Okay, so now this correction is complete.

The only remaining issue is that our Elizabeth Watts (Ayers) has the wrong death date, three years before the birth of her final child.

It looks to me that the other Elizabeth Watts actually is the one who died in 1695, and that date was also given to Mrs. Watts in error, way back in the early origins of the profile. So the two women were confused in error on both sides. Glad we got it sorted out finally.

I am going to remove the 1695 death date here, until we can determine the correct year. It should be sometime after 1698 for Mrs. Watts.

Elizabeth Watts (Ayers) - Ayers ancestor of Laura Ingalls Wilder error

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