Hello all, I knew this would come, and it has. I am tasked with working out kinks and discrepancies in a revised "Descendants of William ball" chart for the Mary Ball Washington. Based on previous research by many of us, but notably Margaret Lester Hill, our Executive Karen Hart, gave me a draft version yesterday with a list of 13 discrepancies. I am hoping my fellow list members can point to a definitive resource on the early Conway family in Virginia. Three of them involve Ann-3 Ball (Joseph-2, William-1) and her husband Edwin Conway III. The most definitive work I can find on early Conways has been by Nancy S. McBride in "Gordon Kinship (n.p.: McClure Printing Company, Inc., 1973) p. 233-243. Edwin Conway III married twice: (1) Ann Ball ca 1704 and who--according to McBride--died ca 1728 and (2) Ann Hack, daughter of Peter and Mary (----) Hack. Hill gives the wife of Peter Fox as wife as Elizabeth FOX. I don't know which one is correct. The only will for a Peter Fox in Virginia is in Accomack County in 1717. He names his wife as executrix but does not giver her a name. I suppose checking the Order Books would be a simple solution for the name of his wife at the time he died. For Edwin Conway II, his father, McBride says she is Sarah Walker. I am confused as to the name of his 2nd wife. His will in now-lost Richmond County Will Book 1 mentions a brother-in-law Henry Fleete but in what context this is meant is not at all clear. Others say his 2nd wife was an Elizabeth Thompson, though I doubt this. Edwin II had one sister, Mary Conway who married (2) James Ball. I have not begun to dig into this yet. Now, the really bugaboo is by which wife did Edwin Conway III have which children? According to McBride, "Genealogists now agree, partly because of names and dates, that all of his daughters were of the first marriage [to Ann Ball] and both sons of the second marriage [to Ann Hack.] I am inclined to agree with her. Certainly George Conway was the son of Ann Hack, as he named a son Peter Hack Conway. Now we get into a discrepancy on the daughters and their spouses. McBride lists five: 1. Elizabeth mar Christopher Garlington in 1724. This is not in doubt. 2. Ann married Robert Edmonds. This is not in doubt, though are no Edmonds grandchildren named in the will of Edwin Conway III. 3. Mary mar Thomas Gaskins. This IS in doubt. She is not included in Hill's list. The only thing I've found stating this is *Virginia Genealogies from William & Mary Quarterly* vol. II, p. 91. I don't know when it was originally written, or by whom. I need to look up the original. This is not in doubt, though are no Gaskins grandchildren named in the will of Edwin Conway III. 4. Agatha Conway married Cuthbert Spann. This is not in doubt. But, there are no Spann grandchildren named in the will of Edwin Conway III. 5. Millicent Conway, married Col. James Gordon. This is not in doubt for his own bible tells us so. Still, are no Gordon grandchildren named in the will of Edwin Conway III. Peggy Hill adds another daughter, who IS in doubt: 6. Hannah, who per Hill citing Tyler's Quarterly Vol. 7, p 253-262 (which I have not reviewed), married Tunstall Hack. This may or may not be true. The will of Tunstall Hack does name some of the heirs of Edwin Conway III (Ann, above, and grandson George, son of George). While Hill does not specifically state who is the mother of which child, McBride is of the opinion that the two sons (Peter and George) are by Ann Hack. Meanwhile, this is at most 8 children. In The McCarty's of the Northern Neck, William McCarty and our fellow list member Kathleen Much do not give much attention to this family but merely state that Ann Ball married Edwin Conway III and "had nine children." So without further belaboring the point, I'd be most interested in the most recent thinking on this family. Many thanks, Craig Kilby