Mary Fitzherbert

Not a proven wife of Charles Beaven. Not the same as Mary Beavin

Rebuttal

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:The_Legend_of_Katherine_Brent_M...

The Third Legend: Mary Brent becomes Mary Beaven

A recent and attractive book by Shawn and Lois Potter, "Daughters of Princess Mary Kittamaquund", full of documentation and full color DNA graphs has acquired an enthusiastic following. [12] The book studies the DNA of descendants of Katherine and Richard Marsham, and the descendants of Charles Beaven and his wife. It determines that both sets of descendants share common Native American DNA. Employing the DNA results to link Katherine Marsham to the Brents, it creates a new legend:

• Mary Brent, the documented daughter of Giles Brent and Mary Kittamaquund, divorced her husband, John Fitzherbert.
• Mary Brent then married Charles Beaven and became the mother of his children.

In support of these claims, the Potters offer the following:

• In his 1671 will, Giles Brent leaves property to Mary Fitzherbert.
• The 1672 Calvert correspondence certainly alludes to marital tensions, but it does not prove a divorce.
• On May 20, 1673, according to a file documenting property origins in the Maryland State Archives, is the following entry: “Mary Brent Fitzherbert, daughter of Giles Brent and his Indian wife, and her husband, John Fitzherbert, were living at West St. Mary’s Manor on May 20, 1673 when they sold Kent Fort Manor on Kent Island to Richard Moy.” [14]
• Writing on the Brent family in the Virginia Historical Magazine in 1905, W. B. Chilton states (p. 442) that " Mary, the daughter of Giles, the son of Richard Brent, who married Captain John Fitzherbert...died childless." [15]

A review of the parallel facts in Charles Beaven's biography reveals similar difficulties.

• In 1672, Beaven married Martha Paca who mothered all his children until her death which took place before December 8, 1688. [16]
• In 1688, Charles Beaven, by then aged 52 based on a birth date of 1636, did marry Mary -- but in this case a Mary often reputed to be the sister of Richard Marsham. "On 12.8.1688 Mary Beaven, with Thomas Greenfield and Martha Greenfield, witnessed the will of Basil Waring, whose wife was Sarah Marsham, the daughter of Richard Marsham." [16]
• Other documents showing a close Marsham-Beaven relationship must be viewed in that context. These documents include the will of of Charles Beaven, signed June 20, 1698, proved June 21, 1699, [17] the will of Mary Beaven, signed April 18, 1712, proved June 13, 1713, [18]
• On March 15, 1696/7, [19] Richard Marsham transferred 600 acre grant called The Hickory Thickett to Charles Beaven by assignment.

It would seem there is as little room for a Brent-Beaven marriage in Charles Beaven's life as there is in Mary Brent Fitzherbert's.

From https://dna-explained.com/2014/03/04/daughters-of-princess-mary-kit...

.... Considering this DNA evidence in light of contemporary records, it now seems certain Mary Kittamaquund and Giles Brent were the parents of Katherine, wife of Richard Marsham, and Mary, wife first of John Fitzherbert and second of Charles Beaven.