Hello List- I am a member of the CALVERT email list searching for information on my ancestor Mary CALVERT. My research shows Mary CALVERT as being born about 1586 and married in 1605 or 1606 to Isaac CHAPLINE in Yorkshire, England at the Bolton Castle. Mary CALVERT is the sister of George CALVERT, 1st Lord Baltimore, and daughter of Leonard CALVERT and Alicia/Grace CROSLAND/CROSSLAND. When I initially joined the group I sent out a query as to any information on Mary CALVERT. I received one answer from the List Manager who politely informed me that Mary CALVERT was not listed in the O'Gorman book, but offered to help if I would provide more information. I belong to a separate group of researchers who are researching the above marriage. Through this group I have amassed a ton of information on the CALVERT and CHAPLINE families. Please excuse me as I try to "prove my ancestor." I am the least knowledgeable of the group, and do not serve worthy as their spokesman. I will attempt to state sources obtained from their generosity. Isaac CHAPLINE can be proved through the following: - Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters - List of Approved Ancient Planters - Isack CHAPLAINE - Jamestowne Society - Isaack CHAPLAINE - Qualification: Burgess, 1624-25, Location Chaplain's Choice - First English Colony at Jamestown Virginia in 1607 Census - 1624 CHAMPLAINS VA C145 CHAPLAINE, Isaac - The Library of Virginia - Virginia Colonial Records - CHAPLYN, Ensign -- 1621, SR 03112, p.1. - First American Families Society - Isaac CHAPLINE - Hotton's "Arrivals from 1600 to 1700" - Ensign Isaac CHAPLINE - "Land Book," Vol. 7, page 531, at Richmond, VA Ensign Isaac CHAPLINE - "Hening", Vol. 1, page 129 Ensign Isaac CHAPLINE - "First Republic in America" by Dr. Alexander Brown, pages 571, 579, 613, 619, and 620 Ensign Isaac CHAPLINE I have the following resources on Isaac CHAPLINE and his wife MARY CALVERT: - "American Plantations and Colonies", Virginia People, 1624/5 Muster of the Inhabitants of Virginia Settlements, January 21-23, 1624/5 Settlers living at Chaplains Choise, Charles Cittie in Virginia CHAPLAINE, Isack (Arrived on the Starr in 1610) (wife) CHAPLAINE, Mary (Arrived on the James in 1622) - "Adventures of Purse and Person", 3rd ed. 1987 and - "Hotten's List", page 173 "Ensign Isaack CHAPLINE came to Virginia, 1610, in the Star and in the census, 1623/4, he, Mrs. CHAPLINE's name is given as Mary...." - "Seldens of Virginia Vol 2", Frank Allaben Genealogical Company. New York. 1911. page 467: "Ensign Isaac CHAPLINE, of the Royal Navy, came to Virginia in the "Starr," as King's Council under Lord De La Warr, in 1610. He received large grants of land on the south side of the James River, in the Parish of Jordan's. He established his home at "Chaplain's Choice." In 1622 his wife, Mary CHAPLINE (said to have been a CALVERT, and a kinswoman of Lord Baltimore)..." - Notes I received from a CHAPLINE Family Historian (Dick Matteson) - "Mary CALVERT, sister of Lord Baltimore and wife of Ensign Isaac CHAPLINE, is very likely the last named CALVERT in the CHAPLINE history since 1650 in America. Her apparent death by 1683 marks the end of CALVERT genealogical influence on the CHAPLINES but help to Joseph CHAPLINE's sons came about 80 years later when those sons appealed to Lord Baltimore (Cecil) to re-validate the grant his father had made to their father- Joseph. Cecil CALVERT not only did that but he stated that his love for his KINSMEN dictated that he grant the warrant- "In perpetuity". This document almost proves the close relationship between Mary and Lord Baltimore and that they knew, communicated and interacted with each other well past the 1600's. That warrant is in the possession of the descendants of Joseph CHAPLINE of Washington Co, Maryland." - "Thirteenth Generation" - http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9082/d31.htm "As an insight into early American History and how the CHAPLINES' progressed to the point of Joseph CHAPLINE founding Sharpsburg, we go back to the time when America was first settled. Isaac CHAPLINE, born in England in 1585, was the latest in a long line of aristocratic Chapline's. He entered the English Royal Navy, where, as a result of his high family position, soon became a Captain of one of her Majesty's ships. In 1606 he married Mary CALVERT, daughter of Leonard CALVERT of the founding Maryland family, that governed for 139 years from 1632 to 1771." - Ancestry.Com (genealogy website) - KindredKonnections.Com (genealogy website) - LDS (Mormon genealogy website) Isaac CHAPLINE married to Mary CALVERT (daughter of Leonard CALVERT and Grace/Alicia CROSLAND/CROSSLAND - Many more references not listed I have also received the following "Controversy" re: proving that Mary CALVERT was the wife of Isaac CHAPLINE: - "Adventures of Purse and Person" "The issue of Isaack and Mary Kaplan has not been established; indeed there is no evidence that they had issue (12)". So my question is where do I go next? Have I proved this marriage to the satisfaction of the CALVERT-List? Anxiously awaiting a response. DeeDee Baton Rouge, LA