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William "the Younger" Palmer - Merge Issue?

Started by Private User on Sunday, April 13, 2025
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Anderson names no other wife of this William Palmer than Susanna. It seems linked relationship with Elizabeth Palmer is an error – particularly with length of her life and no children with William. Primary evidence would need to establish William being twice married with both women living long after he died.

You've opened a sticky-wicky. It's not a merge error, it's conflicting source information.

  • Removed death data for Elizabeth Paddock. If she was William "the younger" Palmer's wife, she died before 1662 and his marriage to Susanna.
  • I updated the profile for Elizabeth Paddock with source information; see the reference section.

Primary source:

“After his death in 1650 ‘some of the Children of Robert Paddocke Deceased’ were entered in the Plymouth Colony Vital Records (MD 17:185):

‘The Register of the age of some of the Children of Robert Paddocke Deceased’
‘Imprimis William Palmer the son in law of the said Robert Paddocke; was borne the 27th of June 1634’ . . . [sic: born 1638]

The interpretation of son-in-law was the modern interpretation, leading to:

The six children that Robert and Mary (nee Holmes) Paddock had thus far were all born in Plymouth, as follows:

1. Elizabeth Paddock was born about 1632 and married William Palmer, Jr., about 1660, in Duxbury. [15]

She's described this way in Robert Joseph Curfman, The Paddock Genealogy: Descendants of Robert Paddock of Plymouth Colony, Blacksmith and Constable 1646, (Fort Collins, CO: self-published, 1977). Page 26. < AncestrySharing > married William Palmer, Jr. born 27 June 1634 (MD 17:185). William has been found given as son of William and Elizabeth (Hodgkins) Palmer (TPC) and this latter William identified as a Lieutenant and a Representative of of Yarmouth, Massachustts (GDNE/TPC ix). Members of this Palmer family were said to have live at one time at Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and to have removed to Newton, Long Island, New York 1656 (GDNE/TC ix).

We could discount this as the misinterpretation of "son-in-law," perhaps; William "the younger" was the "step-son" of Robert Paddock. However, the Palmer genealogists "also" seem to have the marriage:

  • https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~barbpretz/genealogy/ps04/ps04_200.htm
    • 1318. Carlton A. Palmer, Jr., “The Palmer Families of New England Revisited,” Mayflower Quarterly, Vol. 58 (3), August, 1992. [AmericanAncestors covers volumes to 1984 as of 14 April 2025; available at the NEHGS research library, call number F72.E7 E62.]
    • 1320. Robert Joseph Curfman, The Paddock Genealogy: Descendants of Robert Paddock of Plymouth Colony, Blacksmith and Constable 1646, (Fort Collins, CO: self-published, 1977).
    • 1667. Carlton A. Palmer, Jr., “Replies,” The Mayflower Quarterly, Vol. 59, No. 3, August, 1993.
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