Belinda, this is what I wanted is for somebody to have questions about these posts. That was the reason I sent the post to both list because of the surnames and connection between both families. I don't know anything about this Elizabeth. Elizabeth Southy had a daughter Elizabeth that died in 1624.It is not uncommon for her to name another daughter Elizabeth. She could be the wife of either John or Anthony Cawsey? I want to add something else to the posts. A update list of settlers in James City for 1607 by Capt.John Smith lists labourers: William Cassen, George Cassen, and Thomas Cassen. William Laxon as a carpenter. My guess is these names belong the the Cawsey-Lawson group. I didn't think it important to list these names because the files I sent start Thomas Cawsey and Thomas Lawson in 1620. One has land the other had a family? I'll look futher into you post. Leathel, I am probably jumping in in the middle and may have missed previously conversation regarding same...but do you know if Elizabeth SOUTHY and Thomas CAWSEY or Thomasine and Nathaniel CAWSEY. Did either of these couples have a daughter named Elizabeth CAWSEY? A date of birth in the timeframe around 1624 would put a child named Elizabeth CAWSEY, born to one of these couples or related somehow, into the right timeframe and the right location to have been the Elizabeth CAWSEY/CAUSEY who married a man named ? HOWELL, possibly, as her 1st husband, if, indeed, she was a CAWSEY by birth. Then this Mrs. Elizabeth CAWSEY HOWELL married as her 2nd/3rd husband, (Sir) John EARLE, as his 2nd wife, after the death of his 1st wife, Mary SYM(M)ON(D)S, in 1659. John and Elizabeth married in 1660, a few months after Mary's death, and then (Sir) John EARLE, died in September 1660 at the age of 48 years having been born in 1612 in Nye, Winscombe, Somersetshire, England. He died at his estate "Spring Neck," Earle's Creek, Yeocomico Plantation, Northumberland County, Virginia, which he had built for his 1st wife, Mary, and their children, 3 of whom immigrated with their mother in 1652, Samuel, Mary, and son, John, while the 4th child, William, stayed to finish his education in England and immigrated later. Their father, (Sir) John EARLE, had immigrated in 1649 after visiting America previously and upon his immigration in 1649 into St. Mary's County, Maryland he immediately went into Northumberland County, Virginia where he acquired Yeocomico Plantation from the Indians and built "Spring Neck" which would later be inherited by his 2nd wife, Mrs. Elizabeth CAWSEY HOWELL EARLE, who married, again, to 3rd/4th husband, William CLEMENT, a few months after the death of John EARLE in September 1660.