Too many children for immigrant Robert Dibble (b. 1587)?

Question

I just put a Puritan Great Migration tag on the profile of Robert Dibble (b. 1587) in the hopes that apparent errors concerning his children (and supposed children) will get some much needed attention.

 Robert Anderson (The Great Migration) only lists two definite children for Robert (Frances and Thomas), and he found no evidence that Abraham and John are his children (other than having the same surname).

I have been unable to find any evidence that a son Robert Jr. existed.  Same for a supposed daughter Johana (although an exact birthdate is given for her).

  Robert's son Thomas Dibble is listed as having been born in St. Germain, Cornwall, and I have marked the status of that birthplace as uncertain.  There seems to be no evidence that Robert ever lived in Cornwall. I'm not sure what other changes need to be made, but I couldn't even access the sources listed in Robert's profile.  No mention of Robert Anderson (The Great Migration).

Comments

Most of the footnotes on Robert Dibble's profile are citations to unidentified Ancestry Family Trees. I edited the profile to clarify that. There's also a citation to page 79 of a book that apparently (based on https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dibble-22) is "Dibblee-Perry and allied famlies" by Alice Izelle Dibblee Conlon. It's a 1983 book held by several genealogical libraries, according to http://www.worldcat.org/title/dibblee-perry-and-allied-families/oclc/11675839

I  found some online genealogy pages that are reasonably well documented and that I think contain clues to the basis for this family's profiles:

• https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/d/i/b/George-A-Dibble-III/GENE29-0001.html - Robert Deeble page on https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/d/i/b/George-A-Dibble-III/index.html (also see the other pages linked from the main page of the website)
• http://www.ac-family.org/genealogy/search.php?mylastname=Dibblee&myfirstname=&mybool=AND&offset=0&search=Search

Answer 1

Since Anderson's team found no evidence for the origins of Robert Dibble and interpreted Abraham Dibble and John Dibble to be separate immigrants (possibly related, but no evidence), there's good reason -- and a good basis -- for editing the profile.

However, if there are multiple conflicting interpretations published as recently as 1983 (see my comment on the question), those conflicting interpretations need to be discussed in more detail than is provided in The Great Migration. (I've learned that we can't assume that all WikiTree users will accept conclusions presented in The Great Migration if they have other seemingly credible sources that contradict those conclusions. It's usually necessary to acknowledge the disputed information and explain some reasoning for the preferred conclusion.)