how to fix
Child Christening before Mother
The child's christening year is listed before the mother's birth year.
KL4W-4CY Son
G2DB-GRC Mother
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There is obviously a problem here.
Joane Brickett 1635–1656 G2DB-GRC is listed as the mother of JAMES BURT 1616–Deceased KL4W-4CY.
Clearly James could not be born or christened in 1616 if his mother wasn't born until 1635.
How to fix this? You need to find records to determine what, if anything is true here. Was James really born in 1616? Was his mother really Joane? Was she really born in in 1635? At least one of those things is false.
For the current sources, there is only one birth source for James, which ties him to his father Thomas, but that record doesn't mention a mother. And Joane has no sources at all, so there's no current evidence that she was married to Thomas, is the mother of James, or was born in 1635.
Personally, I stay away from researching people that far in the past, because the records are so sketchy, and so it is difficult to draw valid conclusions. But as with all genealogical research, if you want to answer these questions, diligent searching for relevant records is the key.
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