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From: "Gordon Kirkemo" <>
Subject: RE: FW: Edward Farmer: Proposed GARD
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:27:00 -0800
In-Reply-To: <44720485.727547C2.007FA2F6@aol.com>


Will,

I readily concede that much of my source material is secondary in nature. I
also concede primary sources would be better. I've been very forthcoming
about those sources and I've identified what I thought were the relevant
ones. It was what I had available to work with. Just because they appear
to be secondary does not mean the line is automatically invalid. If I had
the primary sources, I would not need to ask for the review.

And just to reinforce the secondary information, source #3 concerning the
History of Leicestershire (page 950) provides a pedigree for the Farmer
family. In the footnotes are the following:

* "John Farmer, yeoman, marriage articles with Isabel Burbage of Packington,
Aug. 10, 1633."
* "His will <John Farmer> Aug. 18, 1658 leaves lands in Ancely and Meridon
to his wife Isabel, and legacies to nine children, John...Edward.... He
seems to have died May 2, 1663."
* "April 5, 1683. Articles of agreement between John Farmer, the grandson
of John Farmer (an infant) by Isabel his wife, daughter of Thomas Burbage of
Great Packington. She went to New England."

In reviewing the sources I have as whole, I believe the evidence is
compelling enough to warrant proposing the line to the group. I am not in
the habit of proposing spurious lines for my personal amusement. Give me
some credit for screening the sources to determine if sufficient merit
exists. I have several other lines that lack enough substance; I will
screen them from review until I find justification to submit them.

If your problem with me is that you don't like secondary sources, then I get
that and we have no further problem. You may simply want to disregard my
posting as lacking in substance.

Yet, my question remains: "Is there something wrong with the line I
proposed?" Are you aware of any information that might bear on this line?
If in your files you have information that raises a specific question
regarding any of the generations I've compiled from the sources I listed, I
would greatly appreciate hearing about it.

Regards,
Gordon

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Subject: RE: FW: Edward Farmer: Proposed GARD

"James Savage, in his "A Genealogical
Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Before 1692" also records
that Edward Farmer was the son of John Farmer of Ansley,"

But surely this is a derivative work providing no EXTRA witness to the
situation, but merely repeating with the same underlying source?


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