Maybe I can help some on the posting below. Edwin Conway, Sr and Martha Eltonhead are my 9th great grandparents. I descend from their daughter Eltonhead Conway that married Henry Thacker, Sr. I do not know of Edwin Conway, Sr having a second wife. Also, Edwin Conway's death date has been in error in Hayden' Glassell book. According to this source Edwin Conway, Sr died earlier than what most people think. Source: Va. Col. Abstracts, Lancaster Co., Va. p. 11.. Lancaster Court Session 14 March 1660/61. Minute Book, p. 141, Com. of Administration on the Est. of MR. EDWIN CONNOWAY, DEC'D to HENRY CORBYN. There was a land record much later in 1675 but Edwin Conway, Sr was already dead and many people think he died then which is an error according to Lancaster County Court records listed above. Martha Eltonhead's sister Eleanor Eltonhead married Col. John Carter and he died June 1669 in "Nomini Hall" Lancaster Co., Va. Eleanor married Capt. William Borcus after Col. John Carter died. I don't now who Col. john Carter's parents are. I also gave Mike Marshall the record on Eltonhead Conway , my next grandmother, the record of Col. John Carter giving Eltonhead Conway the heifer listed below. Marianne Dillow Illinois ----- Original Message ----- From: "mike marshall" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: "Linda Reno" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2011 5:54:52 PM Subject: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] Edwin Conway's 2nd wife 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. The following record shows her name was Mary but the second record indicates John Carter had a niece via first wife Eleanor Eltonhead's sister Martha (w/o Edwin Conway) Has a maiden name been found for this Mary? === 1674-1678 Lancaster County Order Book: pg 366 Lancaster County Court 9th of May 1677 - Mrs. MARY CONWAY, Widdowe, beings arrested to this Cort: att the suite of HENERY WILLOUGHBY and not appeareing to answers the saide suite, and the Sheriffe not takeing security accordinge to Acts, order accordinge to Acts is granted against the saide Sheriffs, upon whose request, Attachmt. accordinge to Acts is granted against the saide CONWAY === 1654-1661 Lancaster County Deed-Wills pg 151 THESE P:SENTS Witnesseth that I Colo. JOHN CARTER of Rapa. River in the County of Lancaster in Virginia Esqr. for ye Love that I bear towards my Neice, ELTONHEADE, the Daughterof EDWYN CONNAWAY, have  given granted &., assigned have given order to be delivered & do by these p:sents give grant assigne & deliver unto EDWYN CONNAWAY for ye use of ye sd ELTONHEADE the oldest heifer that 1 now have in ye possession & at ye Plantation of WILLM. LUCAS on ye South side of Rapa, River coloured red & a flower deluce on both ears To have & to hold ye sd heifer with all her increase both male & female unto her ye sd ELTONHED CONNOWAY her heirs Exrs. Admrs. & assignes without ye lawfull let or disturbance of anyp:son or p:sons whatsoever In Witnes whereof I have hereunto set my hand ye 9th day of April Ao: 1656 Signed & delivered in presence of JASPER BAKER, JOHN CARTER FOSLIN DELANALL === Virginia Heraldica, edited by Wm. Armstrong Crozier (Baltimore, 1978, originally published 1908), pp. 68-69: "Conway. Northampton and Lancaster counties. . . . "Edwin Conway of the county of Worcester, England, came to Virginia in 1640, and in 1642 was clerk of Northampton county. He was born about 1610, and died in Lancaster county in 1675. He married, 1st, in England, Martha, daughter of Richard Eltonhead, Esq., of Lancashire. He moved from Northampton to Lancaster county about 1652; his second wife being either a sister or sister-in-law of John Carter of Corotoman. His known issue,gathered from deeds in Lancaster Court House: 1) Edwin, born about 1640-4, died 1698, married, 1st, Sarah Fleete; married, 2nd, in 1695, Elizabeth Thompson; 2) Eltonhead (daughter), born about 1646, married about 1662 Henry Thacker."