There are two separate Colby lines which have often been confused. The Thomas Colby who was christened 20 Dec 1567 at Sempringham, Lincolnshire, England was married on 4 May 1596 at Horbling (about two miles north of Sempringham) to Anne (or Agnes) Jackson. He died 10 December 1525. Their son Anthony, christened 8 Sep 1605 at Horbling, was the immigrant who came to Massachusetts with the Winthrop fleet in 1630 -- he is the ancestor of the vast majority of Colbys in America today. There was another unrelated Thomas Colby who lived in Beccles, East Suffolk, England, whose second wife was Beatrice Felton. This couple also had a son named Anthony, who was born about 1574. James W. Colby's 1895 book "Colby Family History" erroneously identifies this Anthony Colby as the one who emigrated to America, and the error has been perpetuated in numerous publications and family trees down to the present time. The identification of the immigrant Anthony Colby with the Suffolk line was conclusively refuted by Glade Ian Nelson in an article in the April 1975 issue of "The American Genealogist." Guy I. Colby IV Irving, TX -------------- Original message from [email protected]: -------------- > So he's not married to Beatrice Felton???