Thanks Kathleen.   I'm not sure why the question marks appear either as they were not intended on my part.   It must be something strange with Rootsweb although I noticed that the message looks okay on the Rootsweb archives.   --- On Mon, 4/4/11, Kathleen Much <[email protected]> wrote: From: Kathleen Much <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] Question Regarding Ursula BYSSHE To: [email protected] Date: Monday, April 4, 2011, 4:04 PM I don't know why David's message got transmitted with a bunch of question marks, but his information is correct. All of Ursula Bish's children were by her first husband, and as far as I know all of John Mottram's were by his (unknown) first wife. In 1649/50 Henry Poole witnessed a deed of gift from Mrs. Ursula Thompson in Elizabeth City Co. In his deposition he says that Mrs. Ursula Thompson gave her son Richard stock, her daughter Sarah stock, and her daughter Elizabeth stock. Mr. Jno Mottrom was present, and the gifts were in Eliz. City Co. Deposition dated 27 Sept. 1658. Source:  Northumbria Collectanea 1645-1720 M-Z. Beverly Fleet. Page 591. Carolyn Jett told me: "Colonel John Mottrom had a first wife whose name has not been discovered. She appears to have been the mother of his three children:  Ann Mottrom, John Mottrom, and Frances Mottrom. (Somewhere in my files I have their ages at the time of the Colonel's death. After the death of his first wife, Col. Mottrom married Ursula Bish Thompson, widow of Richard Thompson. After Col. Mottrom's death, Ursula married George Colclough, who survived her.  George Colclough then married Elizabeth [Willoughby], who survived him, and married Isaac Allerton.)"