Can anyone explain the following tangle? The link below, a book which does not seem particularly well-sourced, gives four marriages for the Virginia/ Maryland colonist St. Leger Codd: (1) 18 May 1667, to Beatrice Pitt, daughter of Anne Pitt [no children] (2) ca. 1668, to Mrs. Anne (Mottrom) (Wright) Fox [sons James Codd and Berkeley Codd] (3) 1671, to Mrs. Anne (Bennett) Bland [son St. Leger Codd, daughter Beatrice and Sarah Codd] (4) Mrs. Anna (Hynson) (Randall) Wickes https://books.google.com/books?id=OsgZEobJlLgC&pg=PA122&dq=%22st+leger+codd%22+beatrix&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwin1OvT8p_UAhXB3SYKHQWQBmIQ6AEIIjAA#v=onepage&q=%22st%20leger%20codd%22%20beatrix&f=false _The Ancestor_, vol. 10 (1904), pp. 161-63, shows a William Pett (not Pitt), with a second wife, Anne Garbrand, by whom he had a youngest daughter, Beatrix Pett: https://archive.org/stream/ancestorquarterl10unse#page/162/mode/2up Of the daughter Beatrix Pett, the article says, "She married one ... Codd, of the Kentish family of that name. Her brother William Pett, in his will of 1692, speaks of her as a widow deceased, and names her children James Codd, and Beatrix wife of Robert Thornton." Also discussed in _Ancestor_ is Peter Pett of London, sibling of Beatrix and William above, whose will of April 1680 names his kinswoman Elizabeth Codd, daughter of St. Leger Codd. Various sources do claim that St. Leger Codd of Virginia had children called James Codd and Beatrice Codd, though I don't find an Elizabeth ascribed to him. At any rate, the husband of Beatrice Codd must really have been RICHARD Thornton, per this London-area marriage record from 1689: https://books.google.com/books?id=bjIEAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA42&dq=%22beatrice+codd%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1r8Sv-p_UAhWGNiYKHT9QBKgQ6AEILzAC#v=onepage&q=%22beatrice%20codd%22&f=false This Beatrice/Beatrix must be the Beatrix Thornton of St. James Clerkenwell, Middx., living in 1717 as the widow and executrix of Richard Thornton, late citizen and apothecary of London: https://books.google.com/books?id=eOUIAQAAIAAJ&q=%22widow+and+executrix+of+richard+thornton%22&dq=%22widow+and+executrix+of+richard+thornton%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHjsmVgKDUAhXF7SYKHfYeCHYQ6AEIKDAA The _Ancestor_ article does show the mother of Beatrice Pett, married ... Codd, as an Anne (Garbrand) Pett, which shows a similarity to the claimed marriage of St. Leger Codd in the book first mentioned (1667 to "Beatrice Pitt, daughter of Anne Pitt"). If Beatrice Pett/ Pitt died a widow, doesn't that mean she would have been the LAST wife of St. Leger Codd? More standard accounts of St. Leger Codd seem to omit the Pitt/Pett marriage. https://books.google.com/books?id=jlc_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA375&dq=%22st+leger+codd%22+beatrix&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwin1OvT8p_UAhXB3SYKHQWQBmIQ6AEIMTAD#v=onepage&q=%22st%20leger%20codd%22%20beatrix&f=false