Advice before merging these pre-1700 Conibear profiles?

Question

I have an issue with merging one of my profiles with an older one. The older Conibear-35 profile linked below seems to include sources that are more consistent with a number of different profiles that I have created. Note that each of the sources for said profile are baptismal records for the supposed children of the profile, instead of records on the profile itself. 

How do I resolve this with merging it to my own profiles? Since the sources are all baptismal records for the supposed "children" of the profile, it means I'm going off the guesswork of the previous author, and they were apparently going off of the guesswork of whoever created the associated FamilySearch profiles that are linked to the records in each source.

Additionally, I've concluded that the baptismal sources are actually the children of two different William Conibears, which makes merging it even harder. For reference, in the Conibear-35 profile's sources:

• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N567-XB3 : 18 September 2020), William Conibear in entry for Fraunces Conibear, 1633.

This record applies to Fraunces Conibear (1633 - ?), the daughter of William Coniber (1572 - 1634). 

• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N567-XTL : 18 September 2020), William Conibeer, 1639.

This record applies to William Conibear (1639 - ?), the son of William Conibear (1620 - 1671). 

• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J3FW-2J4 : 18 September 2020), Mary Conibeer, 1642.

This record applies to Mary Conibeer (1642 - ?), the daughter of William Conibear (1620 - 1671). 

So, the three records that are sourced for Conibear-35 actually belong to two different fathers. How do I resolve this, and merge the Conibear-35 profile into the two different profiles?

Answer 1

As two of the three records apply to Conibear-80 and one to Coniber-9, I'd go with the majority. Remove the Fraunces Conibear, 1633. baptism and copy it to Coniber-9. Then merge Conibear-80 into Conibear-35.

I see that Conibear-35 already has a son John Conibear-34, but there are no sources for the relationship. Do you know which William this John belongs to? If there is no evidence, it may be better to detach him for now with a note about possible fathers on his profile.

Comments

Andrew, thank you so much for your help! I don't yet know which William that John belongs to so I will detach it for now but I'll do the other advice right now. Have a great day!