User talk:Dhris

Dhris:

I just saw your comments from 2008 to my comments of 17 Feb 2006 ; I come back and forth to this page. (I thought I'd set up a notice of any responses....)

Re: your comment: "The business about Maimiti (i.e. that they married on Tahiti and that she was the daughter of a chief) is unsourced and needs to come out unless a proper reference can be added."

What would you consider a "proper reference"? I seem to remember I added the link to the Peerage page with the marriage date...and that marriage date matches what I have in family documents I have in my house, which were copied (photo copied) by family members via official documents gathered from Norfolk Island. I notice that your comments were made after I added the Peerage link. I just now pulled out the documents I mention, and the marriage recorded matches what the Peerage has.

A church register or some kind of marriage form would be nice, but I would think that is rare (hard to find now) for many marriages performed in the 1700s in England, much less one in Tahiti under...extreme circumstances, shall we say. :-> So, other than the link to the Peerage page, which I added c. 2006-2007, what documentation would you like to see or be linked to? Have you looked for any supporting evidence of a marriage? Have you found any sourced references that indicate a marriage did not take place?

The only source I can think of that would "prove" the marriage would be The Bounty's logs, and I have no way to access those...and that assumes the marriage was logged.

Silverfern nc (talk) 03:30, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Silverfern, please see my response on the discussion page. Dhris (talk) 16:32, 19 August 2009 (UTC)