Something similar happened in my tree.
Researchers of our Quintrell family had long allocated the parents of our ancestor Thomas Quintrell before I began researching, with the father being Richard of Gerrans, Cornwall.
However, when I started researching I wanted to check everything myself and I was in contact with another researcher. We soon discovered that this Thomas died in 1720, a year after his baptism. Back to the drawing board!
We discovered that an Edward Quintrell from Gerrans had settled at St Agnes and had children baptised there. Our Thomas was baptised in 1718. When Thomas married he named one of his sons Edward, and none was Richard.
There are still trees with the wrong baptism circulating.
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