Mary Page - Mary Page - disputed as wife of Walter Chiles II (d 1673)

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Mary Page daughter of Col. John Page & Alice Page is disputed as wife of the 2nd Walter Chiles (d. 1671).

The more current thinking is that Walter Chiles, II, of Jamestown had only one wife, Susanna Wadding mother of his three children:

  1. Elizabeth Tyler
  2. Capt. Henry Chiles
  3. John Chiles

She's been detached as wife and the children moved over to Susannah.


Ancestry.com. Tidewater Virginia Families: Generations Beyond [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data:Davis, Virginia Lee Hutcheson. Tidewater Virginia Families: Generations Beyond. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. Chapter 9: The Chiles Family, page 51-58. Page 56. < AncestryImage >. "Chronologically, Mary Page as a daughter of John Page, could not have married Walter Chiles, and be the mother of John Chiles. Given the known information about Walter Chiles (ll) and about John Page, the legend that Walter Chiles (II) married, first, a daughter of John Page can be dispelled."

Additionally, what is the evidence was the daughter of John Page?

Mary Page, the daughter of Col. John Page [sic: did not] married Walter Chiles Jr., son of Col. Walter Chiles of the Virginia Governor's Council.[14] In his will of March 5, 1687, Col. John Page mentions his grandson John Chiles, as well as his "grandsonne John Tyler, sonne of my grand-daughter Elizabeth Tyler."[15] Elizabeth Chiles had married Henry Tyler of Middle Plantation, and thus became the ancestor[16] of President John Tyler.[17]. However, the current thinking is that the only wife of Walter Chiles, II, of Jamestown was Susanna Wadding Alice Page (widow of John Page) does not name any daughters in her will. The Chiles "grandchildren" named by John Page were more likely step grandchildren.


John Page was twenty-six years old in 1653 when he namee Alice Page, Elizabeth Page and Mary Page as headrights in a land patent. Alice seems to have been his wife and and Elizabeth evidently his sister, as he later identified Elizabeth Diggs (the wife of Edward Diggs) as his sister. The identity of Mary Page is not clear. Some have thought she may have been the wife of John Page's brother, Matthew. She should have been an early wife; however, in a land patent of Matthew Pagge (sic) on March 19, 1662, the patent identified his wife at that time as Elizabeth Crump, the widow of John Crump. ...

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