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Orphaned references in William Byrd I
editI check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of William Byrd I's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "Tyler":
- From Theodorick Bland (surveyor): Tyler, Lyon G. (January 1896). "Title of Westover". William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. 4 (3): 151–155. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
{{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters:|laydate=,|separator=,|laysummary=, and|laysource=(help) - From Westover Plantation: Tyler, Lyon G. (January 1896). "Title of Westover". William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. 4 (3): 151–155. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 01:57, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
Jewish ancestry?
editI read on a genealogical site that the Birds were goldsmiths of Sephardic Jewish ancestry. Any truth in this or is this just another example of people searching to discover a genetic line back to Jesus in the wake of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code?--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 16:29, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
Wife's name
editI've done some tweaking. From what I can see, his wife's name was Mary and this is listed on her tombstone. It's also listed in several RS as Mary. I can't really find anything that uses "Maria" other than Find-A-Grave, which isn't usable as a reliable source because it's edited by random people. I think that they might be thinking of Maria Horsmanden Byrd, the daughter of William Byrd III. If anyone can show that this was a nickname used by the family it can be re-added, but we'd need a really reliable source that predates this Wikipedia article. The Library of Virginia doesn't have the nickname in the article about William Byrd I and they're usually fairly good about including that in articles even if the article isn't about that specific person. Tokyogirl79LVA (talk) 12:58, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
- It's also likely that they were thinking of the wife of William Byrd II, who was named Maria but did not carry the Horsmanden name. Tokyogirl79LVA (talk) 13:13, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
Portrait
editNot sure where the portrait for this article came from but it is obvious this is not an early portrait of William Byrd I. The hair and clothing suggest a date of around c.1750. 71.226.96.118 (talk) 20:53, 21 October 2024 (UTC)