On 14 Dec 2023 Ellen Smith proposed a merge for Clark-62556 and UNKNOWN-28277 (both profiles represent Sarah Cock, 1637-1715) saying: Clearly a duplicate. Neither profile seems to have gotten much attention or care (or sourcing).
The only issue related to merging them is whether or not there is a basis for giving her a surname. There seems to be some history of treating Sarah's LNAB as Unknown. In the course of preparing the 1914 "History and genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox family" (cited on the Unknown profile), the preparer Cox changed his opinion on her name. In the main text, he discussed the lack of evidence for her last name, then stated "Since writing the foregoing the compilers think they have had sufficient reason to believe that the family name of Sarah, the wife of James Cock, was Clarke, probably sister of Samuel Clarke, of North Sea, Southampton, Long Island, N. Y." This was amplified in the appendix: "The problem of the ancestry of Sarah, wife of James Cock the immigrant, seems nearest to solution, with the assumption that she was of the Clarke family, living contemporaneously with the Cocks at Southhold, Long Island. The persistence of the use of the Christian names, Clark, Samuel and Richard in several generations of the Cock family, suggested an examination of sundry Clarke records, wherein these and several other concurrent names were found both male and female. Other evidence, pointing to a former residence at Rhode Island, indicates that Sarah's father was very probably a near relative of Dr. John (4) Clarke, (Thomas (3), John (2), John (1)) b. 1609." (That last reference is to John Clarke (bef.1609-1676).)
I'm not familiar with any of these families, so I post here to get thoughts from members who may have researched them.
