I know that the research in the J.A. Winn passage below has been strongly debated in this forum, but I don't recall seeing any information on whether the 'litigation' referenced below is accessible in the English court system? Does anyone have any thoughts? Thanks Brian Winn "No positively new discovery, but it appears that Captain John Winn, (Wynne) who married Elizabeth Minor, was the son of Sir Owen Wynne, the fourth son of Sir John Wynne of Gwydir in Wales. Sir Owen Wynne came first to Virginia in 1611, returning to Wales, and came again in 1620 and returned to Wales in 1649 to succeed his brother as the third Baronett Wynne. He left in Virginia two or three sons: Captain John, Owen, and probably Hugh. When Sir Owen died in 1660 he was succeeded by his younger son, Richard Wynne. A long period of strife and litigation followed, and that branch of the family in Virginia changed the spelling of the name to Winn; this began with the sons of Captain John Wynne. Richard Winn and Minor Winn were sons of Captain John Winn (Wynne)." Genealogy of the Winn Family 1500-1963 by J.A. Winn page 2