Skipping back a few generations the Henry ISHAM I do have in my gedcom (no birthyear, no source, just a scribbled note: "south bank of the James River"), purported to be the father of Mary ISHAM "of Bermuda Hundred" m. 1680 the Col. Wm. RANDOLPH of Turkey Island, Henrico Parish, Va. who d. either 1 Nov 1706 (or 11 Apr 1711 as it says on p251 below) ~ probably the latter 'n maybe *wrote* his will in 1706....:) Had 9 kids anyway, a couple of which m. BEVERLEYs. [And I see one m. Judith Churchill...] Googling any one of these prominent surnames in the Book Search, or better yet a phrase like "William Randolph m. Mary Isham", "William Randolph of Turkey Island", whatnot ~ stands a good chance of bringing up, if you're really really lucky, a genealogy written by an actual descendant, sometimes with scraps of personal letters, bible entries, tombstone inscriptions & voila !, Collateral Lines. Heritage Quest is another source of digitized books, including many limited old private publications, which I am so very grateful to be able to access just by inputting the barcode on my local library card. You (generic You, Craig, for folks who may not know this) need to check with your local library to see if they offer access. Oddly enuf, a recent source I have for Mary ISHAM is a Google scanned bk "Genealogy of the PAGE Family in Virginia" the 2nd edition (corrected & expanded 1893) by Richard Channing Moore Page p251. Well okay, it is infact the PAGE family (I must have been googling the CHURCHILLs and tripped over it). There's a bit more on that page too on the emigrant Henry Isham, Craig, whom I'm guessing had the same inclination to name a kid after himself and start an annoying tradition this side of the pond resulting in the same mass confusion we CLAYTONs have with our Samuels and Philips in Virginia. One cool thing though, with the digitizing of all these old books and records, that devastating pronouncement "unfortunately that's one of Virginia's burnt counties" is losing a wee bit of its gravitas. .