1Beverly Conner, Re: Mary Keeble, is not Major Robert Beveley's wife (2007).
URL = http://genforum.genealogy.com/beverly/messages/769.html.
"Maj. Robert Beverley married Margaret Boyd in 1666, she was born in 1637, and her family stemmed down from Eng. and European Royalty. Her parents were James Boyd and Catherine Crayke. Margaret was born March l,1637 in Hull, Yorkshire, England and died June 28, 1678 at Blandfield, Middlesex Co.,Va. The next wife was of Maj. Beverly's was Catherine Armistead, born 1643. She was from a noted family also, with them being active in Jamestown colony. After Maj. Robert died in 1687, Catherine Armistead married Christpher Robinson. Maj.Beverley and Catherine's daughter, Catherine Beverley, married John Robinson. Maj. Robert Beverley had children only by these two women. Margaret was called Mary most of her life. That is where the Mary came from which was put on her tombstone. About Mary Keeble, her husband being Maj. Robert PEYTON, born 1640, and him also being in the House of Burgesses during Maj. Robert Beverley's terms, could be where the mixup was started and also with their children married within the in-law-family. Peter, Robert Beverley's first son married Elizabeth Peyton. Elizabeth Peyton was Mary Keeble and Robert Peyton's first child of their 15 children. Mary Keeble was born June 3, 1637 and reared 15 children, it made her living a lot longer than the marriage to Margaret Boyd before she died in 1678. The children Mr. Beverley had with Margaret were born from 1666 to 1678. The children he had with Catherine were born from 1679 to 1687.
Back to Peter Beverley and Elizabeth Peyton,they had a daughter Anne Beverley, b. 1689 that married Major Henry Whiting. On one web site it said Mary Keeble's maiden name was Whiting, that I do not know and it could have been a mix-up also. And another, Mary Keeble was supposed to be a widow and her name was Mary Whiting Keeble, that has not been verified either. I am just sure after seeing Mary Keeble and Major Rbt. Peyton's family that it was not she that was Major Beverley's wife. These two men were collegues in politics and that is their only connection with Mary Keeble."