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Joanna French

b. 1838

Life

22 May 1838Born

Records & Research

No public record could be found that confirms or adds to the known report facts for Joanna French, born 22 May 1838, daughter of John French (1795-1874) and Sarah Clark (1801-1891). Across more than ten web searches (multiple name and spelling variants, parent- and mother-anchored queries, FindAGrave/FamilySearch/WikiTree/Geni) and a FamilySearch tree lookup, no citable source matched this person on the required multiple anchors. Every same-name candidate returned was a clearly different individual from a different era or with different parents. Her death, burial, marriage(s), and children remain unestablished from public sources. Audit note: this dossier carried zero findings, so there were no record matches to confirm or reject; the same-name candidates listed below were each correctly excluded (colonial-era birth years, mismatched parents/dates), and the nothing-found conclusion is sound given the absence of any place/residence anchor to disambiguate three highly common names.

No additional public records have been confirmed yet — only what the family report records.

Open questions (6)

No death date, death place, or burial location could be located in any public record.
No spouse(s) or children were identified; it is unknown whether Joanna French married or under what married surname she may appear in later records.
The family's place of residence (state/country) is unknown, which severely limited disambiguation among many same-name candidates. A residence/birthplace would greatly narrow searches and is the single most valuable missing anchor.
The FamilySearch shared family tree could not be searched because results require an authenticated login; a logged-in FamilySearch tree search keyed on father John French (1795-1874) and mother Sarah Clark (1801-1891) is the most promising next step.
Candidate records found but correctly REJECTED as different people: Joanna Kingsley French (1729-1800, Find a Grave #13792551); Joanna French Severance (1740-1812, Find a Grave #69954324); Joanna (French) Pettengill and Joanna (French) Collins (colonial-era WikiTree, different parents); Johanna French (Elkins) (1715-1801, Geni). None match the 1838 birth year or the parents John French / Sarah Clark.
Multiple Sarah Clark records exist (b.1777 d.1837; b.1795 d.1855; b.1800 d.1889) but none matched the report's mother dates of 1801-1891, so the mother could not be independently corroborated either; the d.1889 record is close but not a match and was not used to anchor a daughter.

Sources consulted (14)

Ancestry

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Joanna French b. 1838

father John French 1795–1874

father Aaron Jr. French 1767–1850

father Aaron French 1739–1805

mother Mary Clark

mother Ruth Coe 1770–1835

father Joseph Coe

mother Abigail Moon

mother Sarah Clark 1801–1891

father Bethuel Clark

mother Van Dyke