2nd wife of Richard Iiams (son of Wm. the immigrant)
I descend from Richard Iiams (b. ca. 1670), son of William Iiams the immigrant and Elizabeth Cheyney.After doing some research, I've concluded that it's not possible that Richard Iiams' second wife was Elizabeth Gaither, as Harry Wright Newman claims in Anne Arundel Gentry. Newman claims that Richard's second wife was Elizabeth, the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Duvall) Gaither.
However...this Elizabeth Gaither was herself born around 1720 (her parents, John Gaither and Elizabeth Duvall, were married in Anne Arundel County in August of 1718), and therefore she can't have been the mother of Richard Iiams' children, who themselves were born in the 1720's.
If Richard Iiams' second wife was indeed an Elizabeth Gaither, it can't be this one....
Does anyone have a primary document which might give a clue as to the identity of Richard's second wife?She may have indeed been an Elizabeth Gaither -- the Gaithers were an old, established, and large Anne Arundel family -- but if so, Newman has her placed in the wrong family.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
cheers,
Gordon Bonnet
Trumansburg NY
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Re: 2nd wife of Richard Iiams (son of Wm. the immigrant)
Roberta Iiames 3/09/03