Talk:Musgrave family


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Problematic article
When this passed its AfD, it was nonetheless with comments saying it 'needed a lot of work' - that work has not happened in the intervening years. Two major things jump out at a superficial look. 1) the use of unreliable sources. The article is largely built on Plantagenet-Harrison, who was a fantasist who adopted his own absurd surname and groundlessly claimed to be the true rightful Duke of Lancaster, and Percy Musgrave, whose work was self-published and not of the highest quality. 2) a number of apparent contradictions - it says Cuthbert Musgrave was the first in the colonies when he settled in MD in 1660s, right after reporting earlier settlements, and saying that the earliest form of the name is from 1226, but then detailing supposed instances of people named de Musgrave going back to pre-Norman times. These two types of problems are related, in that it is exactly the type of poor-quality sources as Plantagenet-Harrison and Musgrave who make dubious claims of pre-Norman origin for families that can't actually be documented until much later. So, a lot of work still needed. Agricolae (talk) 15:37, 28 November 2020 (UTC)