> Now it's my turn to be red faced! Upon re-examining the copies of pages I > have from G.E. Bushnell's book, I find that on p. 33 there IS listed a > Martha BUSHNELL, dau. of Francis BUSHNELL Jr. and Mary GROMBRIDGE. No need to be red faced - we got quite a discussion going and that's worth a lot.. Plus I obtained several more sources <g> > Fritz, I have a copy of the source you cited: "Genealogies of Connecticut > Families--etc". One disagreement I see between that work and GEB;s book is > that Gene of CT Fam says Francis BUSHNELL ma. Rebecca ___?__, whereas GEB > says he ma. Ferris QUENELL. (Did he marry twice?) Also Gene of CT Fam says > Francis Jr. ma. in ENG to Marie or Mary__?__, whereas GEB also says Mary > but includes her surname as GROMBRIDGE (or GROOMBRIDGE or GRUMBRIDGE). I've noticed the discrepencies in the names of the wives also - from The New England Ancestry of Dana Converse Backus, "Francis Bushnell married, March 13, 1605, at Horsham, Sussex, England, Ferris Quynell or Quenell (bapt. at Horsham April 17, 1587, daughter of Henry and Beatrix (Carter) Quynell). The baptisms of their eleven children are recorded in the Horsham registers. The first child, Edmund, married in England and perhaps remained there. Francis, Junior, with his wife, came to New England on the ship Planter in 1635. William, John, Richard, Rebecca and Sarah also at one time or another came over. Of the rest of the eleven children, Stephen, Thomas and Mary died young, and Elizabeth, baptized on the 5th of March 1627/8, was buried a few days later with her mother on the 10th of March. The mother was then about forty-one years of age. The next year (June 2, 1629) Francis Bushnell, Senior, married (2) Joane Kinward, and two years later her burial is recorded at Horsham, June 21, 1631. No proof has been found that he had a third wife in New England. He died at Guilford in 1646, about eighteen years after the death of his wife Ferris, the mother of his children." But the Abridged Compendium states that  BUSHNELL, Francis (d 1646), from Eng. to   New Haven Colony, 1638; settled at Guilford,   Conn., 1639; m Rebecca Holms(?).   It sounds as though the first two wives were married and died in England and the third, if she existed, was from Connecticut. However, I always have a bit of difficulty in > trying to "translate" Savage's writings. (:-) Somewhere around here I have a list of the abbreviations that Savage used. If I can find it, I'll post it to the list. I have dual lines from Francis & Ferris. The first one is through Lt. William BUSHNELL & Rebecca CHAPMAN > Samuel BUSHNELL & Patience RUDD > Judith BUSHNELL & James WRIGHT > Jude WRIGHT & Elizabeth STONE > Enos WRIGHT & Sarah TILLOTSON > Sibyl WRIGHT & Joseph WILCOX > Joseph Howard WILCOX & Mary Ann BUSH > William H. WILCOX & Laura Althea SMITH > Charles Nelson WILCOX & Clarissa MARR > Eva Laura WILCOX & Orson Clark DUNHAM who were my grandparents. The second line is from Frances & Ferris > Deacon Francis BUSHNELL & Marie Mary GROMBRIDGE > Martha BUSHNELL & Jonathan SMITH > Jonathan SMITH & Alice LEEK > Jonathan SMITH & Dorothy BAILEY > Abia SMITH & Abijah LEE > Mary LEE & Samuel CLARK > Lemuel Lee CLARK & Rosanna RICH > Julia Ann CLARK and Daniel Dorrance DUNHAM > Morton N. DUNHAM & Erminna SMITH > Orson Clark DUNHAM & Eva Laura WILCOX. Small world, huh? Jane