Read carefully the following two articles and note that Lydia Ward married William Markham:
Leslie Mahler, FASG, The English Origin of Nathaniel 1 Ward of Hartford, Connecticut, And Hadley, Massachusetts, Mary 1 (Ward) Cutting of Newbury, Massachusetts, Rebecca 1 (Ward) Allen of Newbury, And Their Nephew William 1 Markham of Hadley:: A Previously Unnoticed Kinship Group in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.), 93:13, 2008.
Hovius, Matthew. The Ancestry of Edwarde Warde of Little Wrattling, Sufflock and the Putative Lukyn Origin of His Wife Judith, in American Society of Genealogists. The Genealogist. (New York: Vol. 28 (Fall 2014)
Some internet trees show that Lydia Ward married William Browne this is not correct. The family has been studied extensively. Edward Ward of Little Wratting, Suffolk, England married Judith Lukyn. They had nine children of which the baptism and / or marriages have been found for many. Lydia Ward baptized 4 Nov 1593 in Little Wratting, Suffolk, married on 30 Aug 1620 in St, Stephen, Ipswich, Suffolk, England William Markham who was buried 8 JUL 1624 in Woolverstone, Suffolk. Their son William Markham bp 3 MAY 1621 in Woolverstone, Suffolk immigrated to New England and is an ancestor of an american president. Lydia did not marry anyone named Browne. Susan Ward did indeed marry Robert Browne and they lived in Ipswich, Suffolk. When she referred to her brother in-law she was referring to her husband's brother not her sister's husband.
Lydia Ward is not the mother of Elizabeth ____. Elizabeth _____ has been covered extensively and in every peer reviewed source she is Elizabeth ______ not Elizabeth Brown. See the Great Migration 2:2:346 for Robert Dibble where Anderson states his son Thomas Dibble married Elizabeth _____ link. See the Great Migration sketch 2:3:257-61 for John Hawkes link where Anderson states his wife was Elizabeth ______.
