Mary Bennet (Brooke alias Taylor) - Who's her daddy?

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ances...

Thomas Middleton married
Jan 1587/8 at St. Olave?s Hart Street, London, Elizabeth widow of John Olmested, of Ingatestone, Essex, d. and h. of James DAVERS, or DANVERS, of London, by Elizabeth (relict of Robert TAYLOR, A. of London) [d 1596] da. & h. of Hugh HATTON, of Cheshire.

He m. thirdly Elizabeth, widow of Miles HOBART, (b) of London, Clothworker, relict, formerly, of Richard THORPE, of London, Vintner, da. of Richard BROOKE, of London, Goldsmith. She, by whom he had no issue, d. at his house in Aldermary Churchyard 1, & was bur. 24 Feb. 1619/20, at Stansted Mountfichet. Funeral certif.

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BUT

Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh Hatton, who married Robert Taylor, alderman of London, had to have died by 1565, as he is then married to Anne, widow of Richard Brooke. She has to have been Taylor's relict who married James Danvers, and it was her daughter Elizabeth Brooke identified as both the 2nd & 3rd wives of Thomas Middleton (d 1633)

See

Anne Taylor
Elizabeth Middleton
Sir Thomas Myddelton, Lord Mayor of London, MP

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And just to make it even more fun, there's a fake Hatton pedigree.

See http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wrag44/hatton/The... by William Good Feb 2014

Conclusion

"The family of Piers Hatton of Kirsty Birches as it appears in the Visitations is a composite family created by Lawrence Bostock to prove that his Hatton contemporaries were descended from a family that dated from the Norman Conquest."

Correcting myself:

It looks more like this this

Elizabeth Taylor daughter & heiress of Hugh Hatton (d 1523)

Married
1) James Danvers d 1562; 6 children including Elizabeth Myddelton , who married 1) John Olmstead 2) Thomas Myddleton as his 2nd wife
2) Robert Taylor, Sheriff of London d 1596; their only child, Rebecca Romney

Then Elizabeth Hatton must have died, because Anne Taylor is Taylor's wife by 1566

So who is it who was buried 12 JUN 1603 London, St Magnus the Martyr, England? Cannot have been Elizabeth Hatton.

Mary Bennett is known "everywhere" as Robert Taylor's daughter by Elizabeth Hatton. Which is is especially impossible since we've now found Elizabeth was married to James Davers until 1562, and Mary was christened in 1557 - 5 years before her alleged parents married?

Collins Peerage has it for example:

https://books.google.com/books?id=k55cAAAAcAAJ&lpg=PA364&ot...

Peerage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the Peers of England, Now Existing... Their Descents and Collateral Lines: Their Births, Marriages, and Issues... Deaths, Places of Burial, Monuments, Epitaphs... Also Their Paternal Coats of Arms, Crests, Supporters and Mottos ... Arthur Collins W. Innys, 1756 - Nobility. Page 364.

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This is whack.

I thought genealogy was supposed to be history.

Is Sir Thomas Bennet, Lord Mayor of London the son of Richard Bennett & Elizabeth Teasdale???

https://books.google.com/books?id=g3RNCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT302&lpg...

Some of the Visitations are highly unreliable - whether that's because the heralds didn't do their research, or were complicit with families wanting to "improve" their family tree, or possibly both, is unknown. (In some cases complicity *is* documented, e.g. the pedigree of Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland.)