Disconnecting Alice (Middleton) More

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Disconnecting Alice (Middleton) More

Legg inn av wjhonson » 07 nov 2007 10:49:08

Scanning the archives I do not see the particular item I'm about to
mention, previously discussed. Instead what I see is a lot of people
having Sir Thomas More's second wife listed as Alice Middleton. She
was not.

Sir Thomas More (Lord Chancellor, Saint Thomas More, etc) was executed
6 Jul 1535 for treason by Henry VIII and canonized in 1935.

All his offspring were by his first wife Jane Colte, who d 1511 "still
almost a child" as the sources relate. She was the eldest of three
daughters of John Colte, Gent of Newhall, Essex. I don't know who
the other two daughters were.

By Jane Colte, Sir Thomas More had exactly four children, three girls
and a boy: Margaret "Meg", Elizabeth, Cecilia, and John.

Margaret "Meg" married that William Roper of Eltham who d 4 Jan 1577/8
and their descendents went on for several generations perhaps to today
I don't know.

Elizabeth More married a Mr Dauncey and that's all I know.

Cecilia More married Giles Heron of Shacklewell, son of John Heron of
Hackney by Margaret verch Rhys. Their son Thomas Heron, Esq of
Shacklewell married Cecily Jekyll but d.s.p.

John More, of course you all know, married Anne Cresacre "sole heiress
of her father" who d 1577 and their son was named, for his
grandfather, Thomas More (1531-1606) and married Maria Scrope and had
a few children.

Now after all this birthing Jane Colte died, as I said, in 1511 and
Thomas More promptly remarried a WIDOW named Alice Middleton. She had
a daughter of her own, also named Alice Middleton who (later ?)
married Thomas Elrington and then married Giles Alington of Horseheath
(by 1546) before dying and being buried 20 Sep 1563 at Horseheath, co
Cambridge.

I do not know if Alice Middleton and Thomas Elrington had any
children, but Alice by her second husband Giles Alington had at least
or exactly five Richard, William, Philip, Joan and Elizabeth.

To add a bit more chronology the widow Alice is said to have been
"seven years older than More" so she was born 1470/1. What her maiden
name was originally, I have no idea.


Will Johnson

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