Ok...so that input was very useful and does help. I spent all yesterday on the will of Margaret's husband, Thomas Gybbes. I find a peculiar phrase in it that you might want to have a go at figuring out what it means. It goes like this: "and Margaret, now now wife, by our indenture bearing the date 5th day of December in the fortieth (40th) year of our late soverign Saint Elizabeth....(*1598)" and he's stating the terms under which he came to possess Margaret's share of Hodnell and he's saying that Elizabeth granted it unto "Tristrim Gibbs, Edward Gibbs two brothers, unto me, the said Thomas, all the third part of the manor of Hodness...etc." He goes on to state the "said Margaret from Robert Wilkes, gent., her late brother, deceased...." (Note: he has another brother, Sir Ralph Gibbs who isn't mentioned). Her brother died young, unmarried and without issue so the estate was divided in 1/3 shares to his three sisters. There is no further division of this estate in Thomas Gybbes' will, only a division of the income thereof and he indicates the land is under a set time of ownership as he states that his son Edward is to have the income for "the rest of the term". He has set out a three year plan of distribution to his two sons, one named daughter and his wife. He states his 'goods and chattels are to be sold to pay his debts'. Wife executrix. ...and he dies in his daughter Frances' house in Northamptonshire. I think the only question remaining in my mind is what he means by his "indenture" as stated above. If that is his marriage date to Margaret Wilkes Dimcock, then she cannot be the mother of Ane Gybbes, daughter of Thomas. Ane was born 1572 in Hodnell. Margaret is called her mother even in the great work called "Memoir of the Gibbs Family of Warwickshire" (1879) which is considered a "bible" on this surname. *Elizabeth came to the throne in 1558