A plea to those who perpetuate bad limbs on their family trees

There are many in the genealogy world who copy erroneous information to their family trees, picking the rotten limbs off other trees and passing them on and on. This blog is created in a hope of helping to end some of this. It does no one any good to pass on misinformation and blatantly fraudulent branches on your tree. Put some effort into your work and produce a tree your family can be proud of, accurate and reliable.

Friday, December 23, 2011

Sir John Mansfield, Isabel Leigh-parents of Richard, debunked

For some time there have been those who supposed that Richard Mansfield of Exeter and New Haven was the progeny of Sir John Mansfield and Isabel Leigh. According to published English sources, the Landed Gentry, he is not. John and Isabel had one son George and two daughters. No Richard. This entry was found in Winthrop's diary: John Winthrop wrote of him "One thinge I thinke fitt to observe as a wittnesse of Godes providence for this plantation: there came in this shippe one Marisfeild, a poore Godly man of Exeter, beinge verye desirious to come to vs, but not able to transport his famyle, tehre was in the Cytye a riche merchante one marshall, who beinge troubled in his dreames about the said poore man could not be quiett till he had sent for him & given hi 50. li & lent him 100.li willing him withall, that if he wanted he should send to him for more: this marsfeild grewe suddainly riche, & then lost his godlinesse, & his wealthe soone after." He was identified as the Mansfield who went to New Haven.
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  1. CLColegroveJune 30, 2016 at 8:21 AM

    I have one of the daughters of John Mansfield and Isabel Leigh being "Anne Mansfield" who married Tristram Dodge of Block Island, RI. I have John's parentage as: son of Ralph son of Lancelot Mansfield & Anne Eure. Have you heard of this, and do you know if one of their daughters was an Anne, per the Landed Gentry sources? I am trying to find Anne Mansfield's parentage.

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  2. UnknownDecember 7, 2017 at 10:47 AM

    I have Ann Mansfield in my lineage. She’s the daughter of John Mansfield Earl of Minories. She married Isaac Guile and their name later became “Gill”.

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