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Thanks to Trish, Spelk and others who have contributed so positively to this question. It is very much appreciated. The 80/20 rule applies to genealogy as it does elsewhere; 20% who are able and experienced researchers, fading into the other 80%. My age puts me well into the 80% and a few hours of research glazes my eyes and starts the custard process in my brain. Regrettably I will not be delving deeply into original documents.

I use others peoples research freely but try to keep an open mind on conflicts such as this one and ask for help as necessary. WikiTree does offer a way to unequivocally identify profiles but dealing with this question made me appreciate FamilySearch does the same and has been doing it for much longer than WT and probably has a much larger database.

It will take some time to work through the whole string.
TRISH, you latest post suggests two William+Mary families, but surely they must be the same one ?. As for Raisbra, he has many spelling variations but this one seems preferred. I have an excellent photo of him from within our extended Australasian family. The thought that Griffin and Thomas could be one and the same is interesting and the evidence reasonable, but the confusion may have arisen because his father is Thomas.

WT allows FamilySearch as a source, so at the moment I feel much as though I’m simply copying these older profiles across from FS to WT.

Little wonder I prefer unequivocal Big-Y matches to arguable genealogy connections.

FamilySearch has two options for the parents of Mary Laws :1797-1890 (KGQ5-1MW)

Option 1 : Griffin LAWS 1771-1832 (LRIK-4LP) married Sarah HEARN : 1771-1830 (L29M-G6T) on 9 Jan 1797.
Griffin's parents were Thomas LAWS + Mary DAVEY. Sarah's were Richard HEARN(E) + Mary HARPER.

Option 2 : Thomas LAWS (MYS7-XR3) + Sarah unknown (MYS7-XR6)

I prefer the first option as it appeared elsewhere, but can anyone find other sources ?

As EA69 and a RootsChat newby, a few days ago I asked a question about the wife of Charles LAWS. As a result of excellent work by people in this group, my focus has changed to Griffin and Sarah LAWS, Sarah being a much more likely prospect as my direct maternal line mitochondrial DNA ancestor.

My interest is therefore in establishing the BDM dates for Griffin and Sarah, the names of all their children and BDM dates if known. Can anyone confirm that a daughter Mary, about 1798-1882, married William MOORE and had a large family, and that one of their daughters, Elizabeth 1823-1914 (my GGgrandmother) married John BONE ?. John and Elizabeth emigrated to Armidale, NSW, Australia in about 1865 with a large family and their last few children were born there.

Some of these questions have been answered above, but as a very inexperienced genealogist, further help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Alan

WikiTree offers an opportunity to very accurately identify people, after which their biography can be improved by any members with appropriate knowledge. The original question was about CHARLES not Christopher LAWS. Apologies for the error - ‘senior moment’ is the best excuse I can offer.

So for any WikiTree users, the question can be expressed as ‘Did Laws-1750 marry HORTH-114’, source apparently ENGLAND MARRIAGES 1538-1973.
Downstream people are Mary Laws-1749 (my GGGgrandmother) married Moore-100433; her daughter Elizabeth Moore-73671 married John Bone-2487 and emigrated to NSW, Australia about 1865 with a large family.

On the subject of time wasting, in the few days since I joined RootsChat I have inadvertently created 2 profiles EA69 and ALAN69, with no prospect of merging them; I have chats under both names but can’t determine which one I’m accessing; I don’t know if I’m in public or private chat mode; and am continuously getting incorrect password messages to which I reset to exactly the same password each time. I don’t know if I can delete both profiles (and loose all associated chats) and start over. Thanks to all those who have contributed over this short period, but I may never find this chat again.