'WILLIAM BYRD & MARIA HORSMANDEN, his wife, had a daughter named, MARY BYRD, as proven by The Correspondence of William Byrd I as follows:
February 26th 1683/84 WILLIAM BYRD to WARHAM HORSMANDEN: "My wife on Michaelmasse day last was brought to bed of another girle christened MARY, they are both & Little NUTTY (I thank God) in good health." '