Re: Copelands, Copelands, Copelands
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Re: Copelands, Copelands, Copelands
12/29/99
How often do I have to repeat that I am thoroughly familiar with the Family Maker site on the descendants of Lawrence Copeland, and that, while it is useful for its collection of information, the critical acumen of its compiler when it came to seventeenth-century relationships was practically non-existent.There was a John Copeland who was a planter in Virginia: heapparently lived and died in the Anglican church, and it is improbable that he ever crossed the Atlantic more than once, for if he had he almost certainly would have claimed his headrights for it (see for example the case of Andrew Woodley, who collected fifty acres for each of the several trips he made to Virginia from England--or was it from Barbados?). There was also a John Copeland who was a Quaker minister or leader who came to Massachusetts and was persecuted there, who visited (probably his relatives) in Virginia, and returned to Yorkshire where he died and was buried.The two Johns have demonstrably different birth, migration, and death dates, and could hardly be more different.Any attempt to combine these two, or to combine the Quaker John with a Nicholas Copeland, sonof John, and NEVER called John Nicholas until recent times (indeed at the time he was born I would greet with incredulity ANY use of a double first name by anyone other than royalty, high nobility, or a Roman Catholic combining two linked saints or using Mary in combination with some other saint's name), is no more than an effort to link up with a famous ancestor by hook or by crook.
What I am about to say is not specifically directed to the author of this posting, but to all who use these Forums.Genealogy, despite what some think, is not an easy matter, and the hardest part is to use your brains impartially to see what is in the records, and refuse to consider as certain what is not proved by an irrefutable chain of facts consistent with other known facts of family and general history.Get your facts right, and then check them again, particularly when you are transmitting them to others.Furthermore, your credibility is greatly reduced if you cannot be bothered to write grammatical sentences or to see that you have typed in names spelled correctly and dates as you found them.
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