Can anyone provide stronger proof Lorral Dibble is Laurel Dibble who married about 1809 to Thomas Richardson?

Question

Can anyone provide stronger proof that Lorral Dibble is Laurel Dibble who married about 1809-1810 (Ontario) to Thomas Richardson?  Merge proposed, but now listed as unmerged match until stronger evidence is found.  Thomas Richardson lived about 10 miles from Eli Dibble (Lorral's father) and both families were Loyalists who fled to Ontario.  Laurel named her first child Rachael, and Lorral had mother and a sister named Rachel.

Answer 1

Explanation how Lorral got from Adolphustown to Fredericksburg (about 12 miles away) to meet Thomas Richardson:  Francis Pringle/Prindle (the one in the 1799 Adolphustown census next to Eli Dibble) was married about 1799 to Rachel's (and Lorral's) sister Rue Dibble. Francis Pringle was a first cousin of William Pringle who married Rachel Dibble. I suspect that Francis Pringle (after his marriage to Rue Dibble) introduced Rachel Dibble to his cousin William Pringle (who were then married in 1802). Rachel (of Adolphustown according to the 1802 marriage record) would have moved to Fredericksburg where William Pringle lived, and younger sisters Lorral and Lucy probably lived there with Rachel since their father Eli Dibble had gone back to Connecticut. If Lorral and Laurel are the same person (and there is more and more evidence that they are the same), that would help explain how she met Thomas Richardson in Fredericksburg.

Answer 2

Another clue to Laurel and Lorral being the same person:  Laurel's children were born at Fredericksburg, Ontario, and Lorral's nephew Joshua Anderson was born within a mile or two in North Fredericksburg and buried two miles from Frederickburg at Morven Cemetery: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/199322527/joshua-anderson

Answer 3

Just to be clear, do you mean Robertson or Richardson?  The biography says that Laurel married Thomas Richardson.

For what it is worth, I have a suggestion.  It is possible that the Dibbles and Richardsons were Lutherans.

The births of Laurel Richardson's daughters Rachel and Susannah are listed in the Canadian Genealogy Index on Ancestry as found in a source identified as "D Broughton, Lutheran Church Records 1793-1832, Ontario Genealogical Society, Kingston Branch, 1987."

A search for Dibbles in the CGI shows the following Dibbles listings from the same source: Aaron Dibble, living 1823; Laurel Dibble, living 1811; Laurel Dibble, living 1823; and, William Henry Dibble born & baptized 1823.

It might be worth checking out these items but unfortunately, I believe that this source is not available online.  Perhaps someone from the Kingston Branch of the OGS can help with a lookup.

Comments

William Henry Dibble was apparently born January 1823 and baptized March 1823 at Ebenezer Lutheran Church, Big Creek, Fredericksburg, Lennox, Ontario.  Father sometimes listed as Orren and sometimes as Aaron. Here are two sources: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/6806826292:62476  and  https://gw.geneanet.org/krisgenealogist?lang=en&p=william+henry&n=dibble 

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  I wonder if Aaron (usually called Oren) and Laurel (Lorral?) could be brother and sister (children of Eli Dibble) which would explain why both have children baptized at this same Lutheran Church.  Oren (born ca. 1793) is sometimes listed as son of Eli (in Ancestry trees), and is thought to be father of Eli Dibble (1831-1911).  And I just noticed that Eli Dibble in the Adolphstown, Ontario, censuses of 1799 and 1801 show him with two boys (indicating that son Eli Lockwood Dibble had a brother born after the 1790 Census of Danbury, Connecticut).  Oren (b. ca. 1793) in later censuses says he was born in New York.  Perhaps a mistake or perhaps Eli Dibble lived in New York about 1793 before moving to Ontario by 1799.  Furthermore, Oren's son John Dibble had children named Eli and Lucinda (perhaps named after Eli Lockwood Dibble and his sister Lucinda/Lucy): https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/153723295/person/232233790434/facts 

Answer 4

Another clue Laurel and Lorral are the same person.  Lorral's sister Lucy is also buried at Morven Cemetery, just two miles from Fredericksburg (where Laurel's children were born).

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/199323173/lucy-anderson

Answer 5

Although no direct evidence has been found, there is a great deal of circumstantial evidence that Lorral and Laurel were the same person.  Their wikitree profiles have now been merged, but with lots of research notes that it has not been completely settled and the search for direct evidence needs to be continued.