My reply to Mike Marshall keeps bouncing, evidently because it exceeds the list maximum. I have trimmed all of his previous message except this: Edwin's first wife was Martha Eltonhead, and all I've read is that his 2nd wife was a sister or sister-in-law of John Carter of Corotoman. I will split my reply into two messages so that it may make it through the filter. First: Crozier's assumption that Mary Conway, widow, was a sister of John Carter doesn't bear close examination, as the "niece" relationship is satisfied by the Eltonhead sisters. John Carter married Eleanor ELTONHEAD Brocas, sister of Martha ELTONHEAD Conway. "[William] Brocas, [Ralph] Wormeley, and [Rowland] Burnham were all brothers-in-law (married to Eleanor, Agatha, and Alice Eltonhead respectively)." Darrett B. and Anita H. Rutman, _A Place in Time: Middlesex County, Virginia, 1650-1750_, pp. 48-49. P. 54: "Brocas's Eltonhead wife, Eleanor, did not leave the vicinity at his death; marrying John Carter, she simply moved across the Rappahannock to the north shore." Bishop Meade originally thought that John Carter's second wife was Anne Carter: "The first John Carter had three wives--1st, Jane, the daughter of Morgan Glyn, by whom he had George and Eleanor; 2d, Ann, the daughter of Cleave Carter, probably of England; 3d, Sarah, the daughter of Gabriel Ludlowe, by whom he had Sarah. All these died before him, and he was buried with them, near the chancel, in the church which he built, and the tombstone from which we take the above covers them all, being still in the same position in the present church. He had also a son named Charles, of whom nothing is known. His son Robert was by his last wife, Sarah Ludlowe." _Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia_, vol. I, p. 110. Later, Meade named four wives for Carter: Vol. II, p. 121: "This inscription is to the north of the chancel, in the east end of the [Old Christ Church]: 'Here lyeth bureied ye body of John Carter, Esq., who died ye 10th of June, Anno Domini 1669; and also Jane, ye daughter of Mr. Morgan Glyn, and George her son, and Elenor Carter, and Ann, ye daughter of Mr. Cleave Carter, and Sarah, ye daughter of Mr. Gabriel Ludlow, and Sarah her daughter, which were all his wives successively, and died before him.'" Meade evidently didn't know about Carter's last marriage, to Elizabeth -- Shirley, who survived him. Hayden didn't know of any Carter sister, but says Edwin Conway *may* have married twice: "This second marriage, if it occurred, may have been to a sister of Anne Glynne, Carter's first wife."