Where did the idea that there should be multiple generations of men named Charles originate?
This idea came from Donald L. Wilson, the librarian for the Ruth E. Lloyd Information Center for Genealogy and Local History. He was given the birth year of 1609 and the death year of 1705 for Charles, the emigrant. Then he extrapolated the possible birth years for Charles older children as circa 1680 to 1684, and for the younger children as being between 1692 to 1705. This was by assuming that if certain of them were adults when the 1710 petition was made, they should have been between twenty-five and thirty years of age, and that the younger children would have had to have been younger than eighteen years of age, therefore with birth years between 1692 ands 1705. He then made the estimation that for Charles to have fathered a child in the year that he died 1705, he would have had to have been 95 years of age. His additional suggestion was that the father of the children would have been born circa the 1650s to 1660s to have older children between twenty-five and thirty years of age. T
