Again, whilst browsing the Internet I recently found six different trees - in full detail - that mentioned a Mary Crabbe of Dorset. Closer inspection led to finding to my surprise that all six referred to the same Mary Crabbe who married a John Gallop / Gallup in the late sixteenth century.
As one would expect, each of these trees showed a considerable number of descendants from this couple - more surprising was the fact that five out of the six were totally different, the researchers had all got back to Mary & John via different branches of their descendants.
Having fitted the five sub-trees together I now have a single tree showing Mary and over six hundred descendants (including spouses). This will appear on my website at some time in the future once I have tidied up the format etc.
Footnote
Since originally writing this topic there have been some very unexpected developments - more descendants have been added, but even more exciting several generations have been added at the top - there are now 22 generations in this tree and about 1,000 people. See the tree for John Crabbe of Cornwall on the website.
This page last updated on 6th October 1998.