Belinda....I'm not insisting that I'm 100% right but I do have some documentation and some reasonable circumstantial stuff. I have seen enough of what you have seen on the net to be very skeptical. I would speculate that someone just hung it out there and enough people copied it for it to take on a life of its own. And more and more people are trying to flesh out that line because the Jane Poythress you cite supposedly married Thomas Rolfe, son of John Rolfe m. Pocahontas. There must be a million people on line hooking up a Pocahontas decendency and when they see that Poythress name they have an urge to fill in the blanks......albeit that information itself would be irrelevent to a Pocahontas decendency. Here's how I propose it, and again I call it probable but not guaranteed. "The immigrant" Francis Poythress is baptised St. Mary's Parish, Newent, Gloustershire 12 July 1609 ("ffrancis the Sonne of John Poythres (one "s") was baptised 12 July 1609.)" Francis appears Charles City about 1631-2 as a factor for London merchant Lawrence Evans who sues Francis over some disagreement. Appointed court of merchants (about 1632) finds for Poythress. Francis marries Mary ________ ca 1632 or so and they have 4 children (as cited but in a different order) Jane, Thomas, John and Francis (2) are born, probably all before early 1640s. Mary's maiden name is the $64 question that everyone seems to be looking for. Francis dies about 1656 (I couldn't make a case against 1652) and Mary m. 2 Col. Robert Wynne as stated. I don't see any of this occurring in Middlesex other than perhaps the births of Robert Wynne and/or Mary _______. Records show Col. Wynne b. England. I'm not inclined to buy Mary b. England but that is only a hunch and it's doubful that has been proven. There are numerous candidates for Mary's maiden name: 1) Sloman......for no reason other than the name Sloman appears a couple of times as a given name after Mary m. Capt. Wynne and the name had shown in neither Poythress nor Wynne lines previously. That's not much to go on but I haven't seen anything substantive (or documented) anywhere. 2) Peyton/Payton......only sometimes with Alice Mary or Mary Alice as given name. Have seen it often and would love to see documentation. 3) Peterson.....no documentation at all. 4) Frances....to which I give no credibility because I believe it to be either one of Mary's given names or a confusion with husband Francis. So, I would posit: a) Mary's maiden name is not as yet known. b) all of this likely happened in a time frame perhaps a decade or two later than what is commonly seen on the net. c) Wynne b. England is documented, the details are somewhere. I never recorded them. Likely location is on the Wynne site as those people are fairly active. Mary b. England remains a question needing documentation. Hope this helps. John M. Poythress