Talk:William Petre

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The article is much too long. This is supposed to be an encyclopedia, not an in-depth biography. Furthermore, it almost looks like several documents about William Petre were collected and then stitched together, leaving alot of information redudant and misplaced and mixed together, making it very hard to read. 77.250.25.165 (talk) 13:01, 10 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you. But Wikipedia is a young project, and this has clearly been placed here as an unhewn block, and one day, the article's time will come. The diction suggests this has been partially copied from a very old, out-of-copyright, source or sources, but it is unfortunate that references haven't been given. (The starter of the article gave the edit summary: "My new article on Petre is based on information from the Enc. Brit. (11th ed.) and on visits to Ingatestone Hall.) In the meantime, at least there is some information about Petre here for anyone who wants to prospect for it. qp10qp (talk) 13:30, 10 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone have information about before Sir William? Who his parents were and where they came from? I'm trying to trace back as far as I can but I get to a stand still with this this guy. I'm a descendant on my fathers side.

"Descendants" removed, full of erroneous information[edit]

The "Descendants" section was removed as it contained nothing of note about the actual descendants of William Petre in England.

Instead it was mostly erroneous information based on the disproved claim that the Petre family in Sweden is in any way related to William Petre. The Petres in Sweden are in fact of Scottish origin, the sons of George Petre of Montrose. The name Petre is merely a variant spelling of the common Scots name Petrie, and the Petres of Montrose were Presbyterians rather than Roman Catholics at the time of their emigration to Sweden in the early 1600s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.152.107.246 (talk) 16:12, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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