Re: Just for interests sake, re: Katherine Moore or Gridley??
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Re: Just for interests sake, re: Katherine Moore or Gridley??
Silver Hawk 12/23/04
George and Katherine's first child, James Darling, was born about 1661 in Salem, MA.This puts his mother's birth somewhere around 1640.The woman born 1658 is born after George's first child.
The Great Migration Begins states that Richard Gridley did not have a daughter named Katherine and that the famous quote from his will “To my daughter Dorlum who doth live at the Eastward” is not attributable to a daughter Katherine married to George Darling. Rather she is Sarah Gridley who married a John Dorland. Two noted Darling researchers, Henry E. Darling and Carlos Parson Darling also reached the conclusion that whoever Katherine was, she was not a Gridley.
Others have attempted to give Katherine the surname of Moore, this theory is put forth largely by Kenneth P. Darling and John Wesley Darling In the files of the Darling Collection at NEGHS there is reference to George's children and his wife being called 'Katherine Moore'.But there is little information which puts her with any family in MA.
Who was George's "good wife Kate"?The world may never know.
Happy Ancestor Hunting!
Lisa
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Re: Just for interests sake, re: Katherine Moore or Gridley??
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