Hello Everyone, I am trying to document my doubts that the Mary Baugh, who many folks seem to say married (1) John Crowley, (2) Thomas (or maybe John) Howlett, (3) Henry Ascough; and (4) Thomas Byrd, could be the mother of any of the often cited sons of Thomas Byrd (brother of William Byrd I). To wit: Thomas, William, Andrew & Abraham. My interest in this is double. First I have Tennessee Byrd (probably Robertson Co) ancestry that appears to trace back to Franklin Co. VA, where there was a healthy mix of folks with old Virginia roots along the Chesapeake (maybe my Byrds) and those who came down the Shenandoah Valley and passed through the Blue Ridge to what is now Rocky Mount and points primarily east, west & south. Second, my maiden name is Baugh and I've been trying to figure out the early Virginia Baughs, including a number on the Eastern Shore, and this attribution of children to Thomas Byrd and this particular Mary Baugh has bothered me greatly given the above lineup of Mary's husbands, and the simple fact that she probably didn't marry Thomas until 1705, died in 1710, and she was probably at least 60 years old, and had been busy with the three prior husbands. This does not mean, however, that there might not be another early Mary Baugh, which is quite possible due to the loss of all the early Henrico Co. records and the presence of two, possibly three, adult male Baughs in 1638 -- John & William (father of Mary of the four husbands who died April 1687), possibly still Thomas from the early records in West Sherlow Hundred 1623/4. To complete my documentation on the Mary Baugh/Thomas Byrd-as parents question, I very much hope one of you has one (or both) of the following books and can provide me with the passages in the Adventures of Purse & Person. page 558 (thanks Linda!) that are cited as documentation for Mary Baugh and Thomas Byrd below: Source A (and of greatest interest to me): "The Correspondence of the three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia, 1684-1776." Ed. Marion Tinling. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1977. (two volumes). Passage here from Purse & Person is cited as Source A above: Volume II, page 826, and the footnote is the first one after these two passages. I hope that it identifies Thomas Byrd's wife Mary by a previous married name. "Mary Ascough held 633 acres in Henrico County, 1704. She married (4) Thomas Byrd, son of John Byrd and Grace (Stegge) Byrd, brother of Col. William Byrd I" Janet Hunter note: I assume that the first sentence on land holdings is taken without reference from the 1704 Quit Rent Rolls and was not cited in Tinling's book, although I suppose it's possible the brothers wrote to each other and Thomas described his bride's landholdings <smile> over a breakfast of boiled milk. On the Quit Rents I believe she appears as "Ascoutch Mary Henrico County, 1705", indicating to me that in 1705, when the Henrico lists seem to have been taken, she was still not married to Thomas Byrd. Source B: "The Great American Gentleman: William Byrd of Westover in Virginia, his secret diary for the years 1709-1712." Eds. Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinling. NY, Putnam, 1963. This source is cited twice, pages 152 and 153, and is a continuation of the sentence above and I assume refers to the death information. [She married (4) Thomas Byrd, son of John Byrd and Grace (Stegge) Byrd, brother of Col. William Byrd I], "who died 12 March 1709/1710. She died four days later 16 March 1709/1710." Thank you very much in advance if you can provide me with the relevant passages from the above sources that are cited. I wouldn't be asking this, but I am for the moment in sunny Long Beach, California helping my elderly mother, not Northern Virginia so I can't just pop over as I had become used to to one of about three libraries that I'm sure would have the books, within ten miles. (Sure wish the question came up two weeks ago when I was in Salt Lake City, although I my patience level had reached almost zero on my chosen research -- I defy anyone to find the page numbers on most of the early Henrico Co. microfilms, not to mention the Philadelphia Co., PA Will Books.) With my best regards, Janet (Baugh) Hunter