The curator notes state Katherine Dale's mother is disputed. I just read the info at the link refuting Diana Skipwith as Catherine Dale's mother, so I just read the info at the link refuting Diana Skipwith as Catherine Dale's mother and am dismayed that the link provided in the About section supporting Diana as the mother is nothing more than someone's personal genealogy database and offers no documentation at all. So, it's not 'proof' of the connection.
I hate to admit it, but the argument at the link refuting the connection is compelling, well-documented. I'd like to argue that perhaps Diana signed documents using her maiden name even though already married to Edward Dale, but the site states that after they were married she never signed with her maiden name again.
This is also pretty convincing:
The Thomas Carter prayer book states: “With this Book pr Rv Mr John Sheppard on Wednsday ye 4h Day of May 1670–wsas Mard Mr Thomas Carter of Barford in ye County of Lancaster in Virga & Katherine Dale ye eldest Daughr of Mr Edw: Dale ye same County.” Edward Dale had three daughters: Katherine, Mary, and Elizabeth. All three daughters were living when Thomas Carter married Katherine Dale. Therefore, Mary Dale was younger than Katherine. Mary Dale died ca. 1683, but she left a son named Humphrey Jones Jr. by her second husband, Humphrey Jones. Humphrey Jones Jr. was living and had a guardian when Edward Dale made his will. Edward Dale didn’t extract a “twelve pence” clause from the guardian of Humphrey Jones Jr.; therefore, Mary Dale wasn’t a daughter of Diana (Skipwith) Dale. And that ends the claim that Katherine (Dale) Carter was a daughter of Diana (Skipwith) Dale.
Given all the evidence against the connection and as much as I hate to lose that line of ancestry, it does seem Edward Dale had to have been married before his marriage to Diana Skipwith and that his daughters were born of the first marriage.
If anyone has found some documentation to the contrary, please share that to help nail this down. I'm not wanting to disprove the connection, that seems to have already been done. I'd much rather try to prove it's valid, if possible. Otherwise, the Geni pathways are wrong and there are probably others like myself still thinking Diana Skipwith is our ancestor.
Thanks for any assistance on this.