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• Gender	Female
  Died	c1640  [1]
  Person ID	I8122	Stewart
  Last Modified	19 Apr 2021
  Family 1	Edward Berkeley,   d. c1724
  Last Modified	19 Apr 2021
  Family ID	F2859	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Nicholas Martiau,   b. 1591, France ,   d. c1657, Yorktown, Virginia   [2]
  Children	1. Nicolas Martiau,   d. 1657 > 2. Elizabeth Martiau,   b. 1625, Belgium ,   d. 1686   3. Mary Martiau   4. Sarah Martiau
  Last Modified	09 Apr 2021
  Family ID	F2813	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Name: Nothing is known of the ancestry of Nicolas Martiau's wife, who was the widow Jane Berkeley at the time of her marriage to him. Her first husband, Lieut. Edward Berkeley, was a member of the Berkeley family which founded the first iron works in the colony at Falling Creek; and he was living at the Muster of 1624 (Feb. 16, 1623/4)(Hotten, P.184); but no record of his marriage exists, and there is no other evidence of Jane Martiau's maiden name or origin. She came to Virginia in the ship "Seaflower" ("Seafloure"), as shown by the Muster of 1624, arriving in February 1621/2. It has been said that she may have been one of the "Doves" who were imported to Virginia to become wives to the colonists; but a torough survey of the facts shows this to have been an impossibility (Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 42, P. 145). [3] Died: Nicolas Martiau died in 1657 at Yorktown, where his wife Jane had died at least seventeen years earlier. [1]

• Sources

  [S229] Lewis of Warner Hall, The History of a Family, including the Genealogy of Descendants in Both the Male and Female Lines, Biographical Sketches of Its Members, and Their Descent from Other Early Virginia Families, Merrow Egerton Sorley, (Genealogical Publishing Co, 1937), 36. [S222] Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume IV, Louise Pequet du Bellet, (J. P. Bell Company (INC.), Lynchburg, Virginia 1907), F 225 .P36 v.4., 4. [S229] Lewis of Warner Hall, The History of a Family, including the Genealogy of Descendants in Both the Male and Female Lines, Biographical Sketches of Its Members, and Their Descent from Other Early Virginia Families, Merrow Egerton Sorley, (Genealogical Publishing Co, 1937), 34.