Hello fellow hunter of all things ancestry... there are many discrepencies on websites about who William's parents are... albeit Edmund (Edward) and Grace, or Thomas and Sarah (Sally)... and his birth year...1587 or 1600. Is it possible that Edmund and Thomas were brothers? Edmund and Grace both died before 1600... Is it possible that Edmund's brother Thomas "adopted" William, and had him baptized in 1600, even though his birth year is more than likely 1587? Edmund died in 1590 and Grace in 1594... which would have made young Willian around 7... If Thomas (brother of Edmund?) and Sally "adopted" him... they may have had him baptized into their family in 1600? I'm looking for a sister "Frances Claiborne" (b. abt 1600), reportedly of "Grace Bellingham, or Bellington". Frances married "William Withers"... her "abt" birthdate puts her as a possible child of Edmund and Grace, and sister of William... If Thomas married Sarah in 1598, and William was born in 1587... who was his mother? It is also possible that Thomas married his brother Edmund's spouse Grace, and fathered Frances... Grace then died in 1594, and he married Sarah in 1598... William Withers has early ties to VA as well, and as the prominent married the prominent back then, it's highly possible that she existed... a possible name is Agnes Frances Claiborne... but that name puts her as a much later birth date... daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Keene... any help you can lend is appreciated.
v/r Ellen
