Hi, all: I am trying to tie together my immigrant Jamestown ancestor with a possible uncle who had been an East India Company investor before he died, and was from Norfolk according to Boyd's Inhabitants of London: http://www.virtualjamestown.org/Muster/search.muster.cgi?start_page=0&search_type=basic&database=muster_1624&last=cob%25&first=&muster=&age-op=&age1=&age2=&month=&year=&date= St. Bartholomew the Great Church, London, 1616-1969 Church of England. BENIAMIN Male Christening: 17 NOV 1630 son of Josephe & Elizabeth Cobb DUDLEY DIGGSE Christening 18 SEP 1661 son of Elizabeth Edward DIGGSE (DIGGES). [a governor of the Virginia colony during the Interregnum] >From the parish records of St Mary Le Bow, London ROBERT m. JANE BARNS 26 SEP 1575 (at Allhallows Honey Lane) Note: the father of all of the following was ROBERT: MARGETT Female Christening: 22 SEP 1577 M. JAMES TRAVERS 29 MAY 1593 (Note: granddaughter Jane mentioned in father Robert's will) RICHARD Christening: 04 JAN 1579 Will 1617 Girdler and Citizen of London ELYNE Christening: 24 MAY 1580 M. FRANCIS TAYLOR 01 JUN 1598 Girdler & Citizen ROBERT Christening: 24 MAY 1581 Burial: 29 MAY 1581 NATHANIELL Christening: 10 JUN 1582 MARTHA Christening: 30 JAN 1586 m. John SHERRINGTON 16 APR 1605 Mitcham, Surrey MARY Christening: 09 JUN 1588 HENRY Christening: 10 AUG 1589 Burial: 03 MAR 1595 ELIZABETH Burial 24 MAY 1603 ROBERT Burial 19 Feb 1606 (noted as Merchant) Will 21 Feb 1607 PCC PROB 11/09 Huddleston 1-47 This Robert Cobbe, citizen and girdler, was a charter investor in the East India Company, and one of Elizabeth I's pirates, I mean privateers, preying primarily on the Spanish Main per the records of the High Court of Admiralty. He owned a ship named the Margaret, no doubt named after his first-born daughter... Best regards, Stephanie