Female Children as NON-ENTITIES?
Just a follow-up toStout family connections.I found an interesting listing on one of the LDS related genealogy sites.I now know why I couldn't find Lydia Ann and her sister Mary Jane.They were listed as "Twodaughters Stout" born between 1803 and 1810.Mary Jane was born in 1807 and Lydia was born in 1811.They both married Willett brothers. Lydia married James Essary and Mary Jane married his brother Edward.I know they were direct descendants of Richard and Penelope because the names of their grandparents show up in the children of James Essary and Lydia!
Philoman Watters Willett was apparently named after his maternal grandfather!PW was Richard Stout Willett's eldest brother who, sadly was killed in the Civil War.Another brother was Edward Aaron Willett.A daughter who died in infancy was named Mary Jane Willett.And then there was my great-grandfather Richard Stout Willett.
Dicey (daughter)Watters J. and Aaron are listed as children but three other daughters are NOT listed by name.One is simply "Second Daughter Stout" and Lydia and Mary Jane are listed as "Two Daughters Stout."Is this an example of how female children were relegated to "non-entity" status, not much higher up on the social scale as the slaves their father owned?
Or is there another reason why three of Aaron's children had no names in the records I found?