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Bills
b. 1815
Life
Records & Research
This person is an unnamed child (recorded only by the surname "Bills") born 20 February 1815 to Chester Bills (1791–1845) and Mary Day (1790), per the 2006 family report. No public record (FamilySearch, FindAGrave, WikiTree, or newspaper) could be located that corroborates a child of this couple born on that date, nor any independent source confirming the couple itself. The two same-era candidates surfaced in searches (a "Mary Bills" born 1815 and a "Chester Bill" born 1788) were checked and rejected as different families; an audit fetch of the FamilySearch "Chester Bill" page (K4VH-VRQ) confirmed that rejection — birth 1788 (not 1791), wife Mira Lathrop (not Mary Day), only child Orrin Hart Bill (1815–1840), surname "Bill", father Abiel Bill. Nothing reliable was found to add to or confirm the report.
No additional public records have been confirmed yet — only what the family report records.
Open questions (6)
- The person has no recorded given name (only the surname 'Bills'); a given name is needed to make targeted record searches viable.
- No birth place is recorded, leaving searches unanchored geographically (the surname 'Bills'/'Bill' appears in Connecticut, New York, and elsewhere).
- No independent public record was found confirming the parents Chester Bills (1791-1845) and Mary Day (1790) as a married couple, so the family group itself remains unverified from public sources.
- FamilySearch candidate 'Mary Bills' (ID 9H6M-749, b. 1815, United States) was REJECTED: her parents are listed as Thomas Bills (1777-1862) and Debra Ann Johnson (1778-1861) — not Chester Bills and Mary Day. https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/9H6M-749/mary-bills-1815
- FamilySearch candidate 'Chester Bill' (ID K4VH-VRQ, b. 1788 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, d. 1867) was REJECTED as the father (audit fetch confirmed): his wife was Mira Lathrop (m. 24 March 1813), not Mary Day; birth 1788 not 1791; his only listed child is Orrin Hart Bill (1815-1840), a named son, not an unnamed 'Bills' child; surname recorded as 'Bill' and parent is Abiel Bill. https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/K4VH-VRQ/chester-bill-1788-1867
- Worth a future check: whether the surname should read 'Bill' rather than 'Bills', and whether a given name for this 1815 child appears in any family Bible, census, or vital record once a residence is established.
Sources consulted (4)
- Mary Bills (1815–) — FamilySearch (REJECTED: parents Thomas Bills & Debra Ann Johnson) · familysearch
- Chester Bill (1788–1867) — FamilySearch (REJECTED: wife Mira Lathrop not Mary Day; b. 1788; child Orrin Hart Bill; surname 'Bill'; audit-verified) · familysearch
- WebSearch — Chester Bills 1791/1845, Mary Day 1790, children 1815 (no matching record) · web
- Bills Genealogy — WikiTree surname index (no matching Chester Bills/Mary Day family found) · wikitree
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