This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Porteous / Jennings / Downman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hAC.2ACE/992.999 Message Board Post: As stated by another poster, there is a lot of info about the Porteous (Porteus) family of Petsworth Psh., VA. Look in Hayden's book for them. They intermarried with Downman, Ball, Smith, and Jennngs families. Edward P. died at Violet Banks. His son Robert married Edmund Jennings' daughter following death of his first wife (Mildred Smith), by whom (latter) he had one son, ancestor of Queen Eliz. II. With his second wife, he and some of their children moved to York, Eng., for the betterment of their children. They had several more children in Eng., many of whom died early. Robert's father-in-law, Edmund Jennings (brother-in-law of "King" Carter, his enemy) and of Corbin and Lee families, inherited (by death of his eldest brother) the Jennings family title and estate in Yorkshire. Robert, his wife, and most of their children died in Eng. If I have misquoted here, I apologize as I am still trying to recover from a severe heart attack and thus do not have my binders or! sources at hand.