Re: Was Sir William Segar's daughter Anne a wife of Lewis Latham?

> 
> How odd that you focus on a minor error rather than on the far-more-
> exciting "new" stuff.  This sort of nit-picking pettifoggery is
> precisely why most people on this list will never find _anything_ of
> interest ...   :-)~

This is a minor error with regard to Latham and Clarke.

It IS MOST EMPHATICALLY NOT a minor error for Dungan.
I am a dungan/Latham descendant. Maybe you are not aware of this mess.

For may years it was thought that William Dungan, Perfumer, and first
husband of Frances Latham, was indeed son of Thomas Dungan of Lincoln's 
end. I suppose you could say that calling Frances Latham as "widow
of Thomas Dungan of Lincoln's Inn" is a minor error, as she was 
frequently called widow for Thomas's pur****ted son William.

But you see, this matters quite a bit, because if she were widow
of Thomas, not William, or if Willima were son of Thomas, her children, 
including Thomas Dungan (b. London) of Rhode ISland and Pennsylvania,
would be Edward I descendants (though Thomas Dungan of Lincoln's Inn.)
However, it appears that in fact they were children of her and William 
the Perfumer, who appears not to be of royal descent.

I hope this is clear enough.

So in fact it is not "pettyfoggery".

I agree that the new stuff is very interesting indeed. It may shed
light on the Dungan/Latham mess. I hope you will look into that mess.
If you can shed light on the ancestry of Frances Latham Dungan's children
you will indeed have a big deal.

Doug McDonald