Henry Scarburgh died young, unmarried and without offspring, leaving a will that was probated on 26 May 1676 at Accomack Co, VA. The essence of it was:
To grandmother Ann Charlton cattle and increase for life then to nephews Bennony and Jonathan West, son of Maj. John West. To aunt, Mrs. Matilda West. To nephew John West the younger. To nephew Scarburgh West. Uncle John West Executor. To Hatton Hill, son of Robert Hill. Witt: William Towers and Robert Watsone.
So who are these people?
Henry's mother was Katherine West. She was the daughter of Anne (birth name unknown) and her second husband, Anthony West. She was the full sister of Lt. Col. John West of Accomack. She married (second husband) Charles Scarburgh (born c. 1625), antecedents unknown but probably a cousin of Col. Edmund Scarburgh. Henry was their only known (surviving) child. Katherine had been married before, to a Ralph Barlow, and would be married a third time, to Major Edmund Bowman (his fourth wife). That Ralph and Katherine's son Ralph Benoni Barlow was not mentioned, suggests that he was already deceased (or had left the area and no one knew where to find him).
Anne (birth name unknown) was born c. 1608 and married three times: 1) Anthony Huffe, c. 1630 in England; 2) Anthony West, on 11 March 1633/34 at London. Anthony West, chirurgion, married Anne Huffe, a 26 year old widow and relict of Anthony Huffe, by license from the Bishop of London; 3) Captain Stephen Charlton, sometime after Anthony West died in May 1652. It is only after 1652 that she is ever referred to as Ann(e) Charlton. She is *never* referred to as Ann(e) "Scarburgh". She is *never* referred to as "Mary" or as "Mary Anne".
Anne had no children by her first marriage, four children (Anne, Katherine, Anthony, and John) by her second marriage, and no children by her third marriage (Capt. Charlton had two daughters by his first wife, Bridgett Pott). She died shortly before 17 March 1679, when a "frivolous" lawsuit was brought against her daughter Katherine as administratess of her estate (the suit was thrown out for lack of cause).
* Anne West, daughter of Anne, was the first wife of Charles Scarburgh (b. 1625). She died before 1654, and he promptly married her widowed sister Katherine (see above).
* Anthony was born and died in November 1641.
* John West married Matilda Scarburgh, daughter of Col. Edmund Scarburgh and his wife Mary. Matilda was Henry's aunt by marriage, not by blood.
Bennony, Jonathan, John the younger, and Scarburgh West were all sons of John West and Matilda Scarburgh.
John West was Henry's mother's brother, thus his uncle by blood.
"Hatton" Hill was probably Hutton Hill, son of Robert Hill and Jane (possibly Hutton). He was about four years old, and his connection to Henry Scarburgh is obscure.
"Maj. John West" and "Uncle John West" are the same person - Henry's mother's brother John.
Matilda Scarburgh's mother's name was Mary. She was not a Charlton, Littleton, or Pott. She had no other husband than Col. Edmund Scarburgh, and never remarried after he died in 1671. She invariably signed herself, and was referred to as, "Mary Scarburgh (she spelled it "Scarburge" in her letters)". In her later years she lived at the house of Anthony West, son of John West and her own daughter Matilda, and mentioned Anthony along with other children and grandchildren in her will in 1691. No one *ever* referred to her except as "Mary" - not "Anne", not "Mary Anne".
Anne nn Huffe West Charlton, born c. 1608, died c. 1679, only surviving descendants through her son John and his wife Matilda Scarburgh.
Mary (Cade? Harmer?) Scarburgh, born c. 1612, died c. 1691, surviving descendants through her daughters Tabitha (married four times, children by first two husbands) and Matilda (married John West, fourteen(!) children) and sons Col. Charles (born 1643) and Col. Edmund (III).
They are two different women, and any nonsense about "Mary Anne Charlton Scarburgh" is pure garbage.
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