How is William Waldron related to Richard Waldron?

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In this article:

https://ourbelovedkin.com/awikhigan/waldrons-deceit

a William Waldron, is noted to be nephew of [[Walderne-1|Richard (Walderne) Waldron (1615-1689)]].

I have not been able to find the connection. Can you help?

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Checking through MBCR records since that link had William appearing at least a few times in the MB Colony, he is not in Vols 4 or 5 covering 1650-1686 which seems to be when he was most active.  The only William appearing was the brother of Richard and father of Prudence who died in 1646 (he appeared extensively around Dover in Volume 3).

I didn't look in Salem Quarterly court records since there didn't seem to be anything linking him to that area (Salem, Ipswich etc) in particular but you might check there too.

Richard's father William is very poorly sourced, I would start there to see if he had any other sons who were father of nephew William followed by more closely checking Richard's apparent known brothers.

And right out of the gate we get a candidate, John Waldron son of William baptized at Alcester, War. on 25 Oct 1607 https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FWARWICKSHIRE%2FBAP%2F001133444 missing from the profile of Grandpa William.  Plus daughter Joan buried 17 Nov 1606 as daughter of William https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FWARWICKSHIRE%2FBUR%2F000408486.  I'd bet this is where you will find the relationship.

Plus another son Thomas baptized 29 Oct 1608 lots to look at https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FWARWICKSHIRE%2FBAP%2F001133493 unless there were two William Waldrons having children there at the same time?

Answer 1

I'm going to list this as an answer although you will want to corroborate.  Genealogical Dictionary of Maine & NH on page 710 (Waldron entry) asserts that Major Richard's brother George had a son William but says nothing further of him (that I saw anyway).  George's profile right now is orphaned and poorly sourced so I'd start there.

Now here's a problem: one of the "Deceit" sources (In the Devil's Snare) says that William was the son of Richard, not his nephew but cites no sources.  I couldn't find "Trouble to the Eastward" and the Documentary History of Maine Vol 6 does mention William Waldron several times but did not specify his relationship to Richard.

Marriage of George Waldron & Bridget Rice appears in parish register 31 May 1635 at Alcester, her name transcribed as "Rie".<ref>"England Marriages, 1538–1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NVYS-B8Z : 13 March 2020), George Walderne, 1635.</ref>

And William baptized at Alcester 4 August 1639 as son of George & Bridget.<ref>"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JMFL-VL8 : 19 September 2020), William Walderne, 1639.</ref>  I'd say this is your guy.

I would also note that NEHGR 9:56 in it's article on early settlers of Dover, NH says that the William who was taxed in Dover in 1664 was born in 1642, was called "nephew of Maj. Waldron" (i.e. Richard) and says "it would seem must be son to William" (i.e. the brother of Richard who drowned in 1646).  This may be possible but I would look for Dover tax records to see how this William was described and where his supposed birth of 1642 comes from since we now know that Richard's brother George had a son William born 1639 and George also lived in Dover.  The only mention made of George in this article is that he was taxed at Cocheco in 1672 as George "Wallden" so the author was apparently unaware of George's wife Bridget and his multiple children including a William.

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Thank you for taking the time to provide this answer. I keep trying to sort it all out.

So far as I can tell, Major Richard Waldron did not have a son named William. His brother, William, did have a son William, which would make him William Waldron III.

Answer 2

Based on the information that I could gather, I could not place William Waldron in one specific family. My solution was to create a profile without parents attached until such time as we have enough sourced information. As a result, the profile is purely nominative; to reference and be referenced from. He is also a member of contemporaneous and locative categories.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Waldron-2876

I'm interested in your thoughts on whether this is a reasonable solution to being able to record a historical person, in spite of a lack of birth, marriage, and death records.