I unfortunately misstyped the volume number and exact page of the article I cited earlier. The full title, correctly written is: Richardson, Douglas."The English Origin and Ancestry of the Parker Brothers of Massachusetts."NEHGR vol. 153[January 1999] commencing on p81. I apologize for the misdirection.. For those who prefer to do their own research on the matter in question, the author provided an excelent bibliography covering his research of the Parker family line, including the Converses as well. The bottom line, however, as Jo correctly pointed out, is that the wife's surname is murky at best. Richardson, the latest to tackle the matter, left her surname blank, but provided a footnote in which he speaks of Ann Snagges as "perhaps" the wife but says he could not find her marriage in the Romford parish registers on films at the LDS library, and says somebody would have to look elsewhere for it. He does not provide the surname of any other person as the wife of John....no Drake or no Gelley. Richardson also says there are records of multiple John Parkers who married Anns in the records he examined.... I looked at the IGI records for John and Ann... I recommend not going that route unless you wish to have a good chuckle. 'Gene Hubbard