Interesting article re: Gayers of Nantucket

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John Brandon

Re: Interesting article re: Gayers of Nantucket

Legg inn av John Brandon » 26 nov 2007 23:41:02

I think the author probably is correct to focus in on William Gayer
who married Joan Lane in Plymouth. Note that one of Joan/ Jane
Gayer's letters to her son William in Nantucket mention "your sister
Marcy desairs to be remembered to you and yours, your Unkols and Aunt
lame [? Lane] doth the same ..."

http://books.google.com/books?id=AWwFAA ... r+marcy%22

This seems to add another sister, Mercy or Marcy, into the mix.

The marriage of their brother Richard Gayer must be the one, 21 June
1687, at Saint James Dukes Place, London, to Deborah Harper, as per
extracted IGI. It seems likely she was a relation of Sir John Gayer's
first wife, Priscilla Harper.

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Re: Interesting article re: Gayers of Nantucket

Legg inn av jonmeltzer@gmail.com » 28 nov 2007 18:00:10

Actually, this article is not just relevant to the Gayer family. It's
a good recounting of how jumping to conclusions can get spurious royal
ancestries into circulation. I still see this line on genealogy web
sites.

John Brandon

Re: Interesting article re: Gayers of Nantucket

Legg inn av John Brandon » 28 nov 2007 19:12:03

Actually, this article is not just relevant to the Gayer family. It's
a good recounting of how jumping to conclusions can get spurious royal
ancestries into circulation. I still see this line on genealogy web
sites.

It was quite entertaining, I thought (the bit about "Aunt Priscilla"
and all that). If anything, I thought he underplayed the actual
evidence that exists (the letters, wills, etc.). Gary Boyd Roberts
once wrote that this article had decimated (or some such word) the
claimed royal ancestry of William Gayer, and that "the parentage of
Sir John Gayer and his brother William is currently unknown."
Actually, we DO know that their mother was named Joan or Jane, she was
still living in Plymouth in the late 1690s, and that they had sisters
married to Hooper, Matthews, as well as cousins named Throgmorton,
Ryther, Hole, etc.

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