Elizabeth Plummer (Stockett) - Who's her daddy? :-D

hmm you are turning up all sorts of supprises today for me.. 8th cousin 5 x removed this person is of me..

John Blake this is as far as i know of that line..
let me get this correct
you are stating that her father could be this person cpt Capt. Thomas Stockett
or it could be some one elses it's in dispute?

Erica Howton what do you think of this? like i said this is a line i am not all that familar with as my knowledge stops at john blake the elder.

if i read into this correctly u are suggesting that she was born on or before thomas yates died and the wife remarried and she and her new husband took the child in and are trying to determine if thomas was the dad or the new man in the picture was the father?

Hmmm. I don't think I will try too hard to figure that one out. Maybe when I get everyone else figured out.

Exactly who her father was, isn't important at this remove. The Stocketts trace back to a guy who was Queen Elizabeth I's chief civil engineer, and solidly middle class, while the Yates are a bit harder to trace but seem to be mainly yeomanry.

Her mother, Mary Wells, was the daughter of Frances Wells - about whom there was a great deal of discussion earlier this year. The final consensus was that Frances may indeed have been the daughter of Richard Whyte, IV (that should be "Sir" Richard Whyte - he seems to have lost his knighthood in all the confusion), but by his first wife, Anne White, rather than the traditional Lady Catherine White (Weston) .

In the long run that doesn't matter either, since Sir Richard traced back to royalty on his own account - it just took longer.

Anyway, Frances wound up in Virginia married to Dr. Richard Wells - that's an indisputable fact, regardless of how she got there. Mary was her first child and oldest daughter, and Mary's first husband was Captain Thomas Stockett. Elizabeth was either their last child, and quite likely posthumous, or the first child of Mary Wells and George Yates.

It's no skin off my tush either way, since I'm not a direct descendant (that link went away when it turned out that Elizabeth Stockett/Yate married Thomas Plummer Jr., not Sr.).

But that whole corner of the tree seems to be loaded with Major Weirdness. :-D

George Yate
→ Elizabeth Plummer (Yate)
his adopted daughter

"Adopted" was apparently added to George Yate's will by another hand and possibly at another time, so whether it was a correction is open to interpretation. She was certainly his daughter in all the ways that really matter, i.e. he named her as such, took care of her, raised her and loved her.