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Alice Freeman

Female Abt 1595 - Aft 1658  (~ 63 years)


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  • Name Alice Freeman  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] 
    Birth Abt 1595  [9] 
    Gender Female 
    Alternate death Aft 24 Dec 1658  Stonington, New London, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Death Aft 24 Dec 1658  New London, New London, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Person ID I2968  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of FF, Ancestor of FW, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TNH
    Last Modified 9 Jun 2022 

    Father Henry Freeman,   b. 1560, of Cranford St. John, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Aug 1606, Cranford St. John, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 46 years) 
    Mother Margaret Edwards,   b. Bef 25 Sep 1565, Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 23 Aug 1637 (Age > 72 years) 
    Marriage 10 Feb 1589  St. Sepulchre, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Family ID F5969  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 John Tompson,   b. Abt 1585, of Maidford, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 7 Nov 1626 and 14 Nov 1626, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 41 years) 
    Marriage 1613  [9, 11, 12, 13, 14] 
    Children 
     1. Margaret Tompson,   b. Abt 1614   d. Aft 1639 (Age ~ 26 years)
    +2. Mary Tompson,   b. Bef 14 Nov 1619   d. 4 Aug 1693, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 73 years)
    +3. Bridget Thompson,   b. Bef 10 Sep 1622, Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aug 1643, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 20 years)
    +4. Dorothy Tompson,   b. Bef 5 Jul 1624   d. Aft 9 Aug 1709 (Age > 85 years)
    Family ID F340  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Sep 2024 

    Family 2 Robert Parke,   b. Bef 3 Jun 1580   d. 4 Feb 1665, Mystic, New London, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 84 years) 
    Marriage Aft 30 May 1644  Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [15, 16, 17, 18, 19] 
    Family ID F6398  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Nov 2021 

  • Notes 
    • One of TNH's four proven "gateway ancestors". Also one of TSW's eight, one of JTS's eleven; one of TWK's twelve; and the sole "gateway ancestor" yet discovered for FW.

      "Alice and at least two of her daughters emigrated to New England. She was living in Roxbury, Massachusetts, by 2 April 1640, when a complaint was drawn up against 'Alice Tompson widdow.'" [Randy A. West, citation details below.]

      Descendants of Alice Freeman of particular interest to anyone liable to be looking at the ancestry of people named Nielsen Hayden include Edgar Rice Burroughs, L. Frank Baum, and Thomas Pynchon. Other notable descendants include Katherine Hepburn, Julia Child, Fannie Farmer, Louisa May Alcott, Grace Slick, Louis Auchincloss, Dorothea Dix, George B. McClellan, Cyrus McCormick, J. P. Morgan, Charles Dana Gibson, Clarence Almon Torrey, Kingman Brewster Jr., Nelson, David, and Winthrop Rockefeller, Archibald MacLeish, Clarence Day, Warren G. Harding, Humphrey Bogart, Harriet Monroe, Admiral George Dewey, Thomas E. Dewey, George Gallup, Spencer W. Kimball, Martha Graham, Laura Ingalls Wilder, George F. Kennan, Robert Lansing, Brewster Kahle, James Taylor, Boris Johnson, Tammy Duckworth, Seth Low, Oliver Platt, Alec Baldwin, and would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley, Jr.

      To the best of our knowledge, Alice Freeman is the only seventeenth-century immigrant to New England proven to be both descended from an English monarch and an ancestor of the current British royal family. (Corrections welcome.) Thus:

      Aethelred II "Unraed", King of England (~968-1016) = Aelfgifu (~970-~1002)
      Aelfgifu = Uchtred, Earl of Northumbria (~970-1016)
      Ealdgyth of Northumbria = Maldred (~1009-1045)
      Gospatric of Dunbar, Earl of Northumbria (~1044-~1074)
      Gospatric of Dunbar, Earl of Lothian (d. 1138)
      Juliana of Dunbar = Ralph de Merlay (d. 1160)
      Roger de Merlay (d. 1188) = Alice de Stuteville (d. 1219)
      Agnes de Merlay = Richard Gobion (d. 1230)
      Hugh Gobion (d. 1275) = Matilda (d. ~1271)
      Joan Gobion (d. >1312) = John de Morteyn (d. 1296)
      John de Morteyn (d. 1346) = Joan de Rothwell
      Lucy de Morteyn (d. ~1361) = John Giffard (1301-1369)
      Thomas Giffard (~1345-1394) = Elizabeth de Missenden (d. 1367)
      Roger Giffard (~1367-1409) = Isabel Stretley
      Thomas Giffard (1408-1469) = Eleanor Vaux
      John Giffard (~1431-~1506) = Agnes Wynslow
      Thomas Giffard (d. 1511) = Jane Langston (d. 1535)
      Amy Giffard (d.~1488) = Richard Samwell (d. 1519)
      Susanna Samwell (~1511-~1586) = Peter Edwards (~1490-~1550)
      Edward Edwards (~1537-~1592) = Ursula Coles (d. 1606)
      Margaret Edwards (1565-~1637) = Henry Freeman (~1564-1606)
      Alice Freeman (~1595-1658) = John Tompson (d. 1626)
      Dorothy Thompson (1624->1709) = Thomas Parke (1615-1709)
      Dorothy Parke (d. >1707) = Joseph Morgan (1646-1704)
      Margaret Morgan (b. 1686) = Ebenezer Hibbard (1682-1732)
      Keziah Hibbard (b. 1722) = Caleb Bishop (1717-1785)
      Lucy Bishop (1747-1783) = Benejah Strong (1740-1809)
      Dr. Joseph Strong (1770-1812) = Rebecca Young (1779-1862)
      Eleanor Strong (1805-1863) = John Wood (1785-1848)
      Ellen Wood (1831-1877) = Franklin H. Work (1819-1911)
      Frances Ellen Work (1857-1947) = James Boothby Burke Roche (1851-1920)
      Edmund Maurice Burke Roche (1885-1955) = Ruth Sylvia Gill (1908-1993)
      Frances Ruth Burke Roche (1936-2004) = Edward John Spencer (1924-1992)
      Diana Frances Spencer (1961-1997) = Charles, Prince of Wales (1948- )
      William Arthur Philip Louis, Duke of Cambridge (1982- )

      In addition, Alice Freeman's descent to General McClellan:

      John Tompson (d. 1626) = Alice Freeman (1595-1658)
      Dorothy Thompson (1624->1709) = Thomas Parke (1615-1709)
      Martha Parke (b. 1646) = Isaac Wheeler
      Martha Wheeler (d. 1745) = John Williams (d. 1702)
      Eunice Williams (1702-1772) = Joseph Gallup (1695-1760)
      Lucy Gallup = James Eldredge
      Eunice Eldredge = James McClellan
      Dr. George McClellan (1796-1847) = Elizabeth Sophia Brinton (1800-1889)
      George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885)

      And to Warren G. Harding:

      Alice Freeman (~1595->1658) = John Tompson (d. 1626)
      Dorothy Tompson (1624-1709) = Thomas Parke (1619-1709)
      Dorothy Parke (d. >1707) = Joseph Morgan (1646-1704)
      Rev. Joseph Morgan (1671->1738) = Sarah Emmons (~1678->1706)
      Dorothy Morgan (1697->1747) = Henry Van Kirk (1700-~1776)
      Henry Van Kirk (1740-1798)
      William Van Kirk (1763-1826) = Deborah Watters
      Charity Malvina Van Kirk (~1803-1878) = Isaac Haines Dickerson (~1802-1867)
      Phoebe Elizabeth Dickerson (1843-1910) = George Tyron Harding (1844-1928)
      Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923)

      And to, of all people, Boris Johnson:

      John Tompson (d. 1626) = Alice Freeman (1595-1658)
      Dorothy Thompson (1624->1709) = Thomas Parke (1615-1709)
      Dorothy Parke (1652-1707) = Joseph Morgan (1646-1704)
      Dorothy Morgan (1676-1759) = Ebenezer Witter (1668-1712)
      Mary Witter (b. 1696) = Jeremiah Tracy (b. 1682)
      Jeremiah Tracy (b. 1719) = Margaret Huntington
      Solomon Tracy (1756-1835) = Mary Wells (~1864-1848)
      Hila Tracy (1799-~1841) = Jonathan Nobles (~1792-~1870)
      Maria Nobles (~1823-~1880) = Judson Holcomb (~1819-~1880)
      Clara Holcomb (1848-1927) = Henry Clinton Porter (1851-1922)
      Helen Tracy Porter (1876-1963) = Elias Avery Lowe (1879-1969)
      Frances Beatrice Lowe = Sir James Edmund Sanford Fawcett (1913-1991)
      Charlotte Offlow Fawcett (1942-2021) = Stanley Patrick Johnson (1940- )
      Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (1964- ), UK Prime Minister 2019-

      (Freakishly, because everything about Boris Johnson is freakish, Boris Johnson is also a descendant of Alice Freeman's second husband Robert Parke, via his first wife Martha Chaplin.)

  • Sources 
    1. [S2672] The Visitations of Northamptonshire Made in 1564 and 1618-19, with Northamptonshire Pedigrees from Various Harleian Mss. ed. Walter C. Metcalfe. London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1887.

    2. [S1699] McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines by Selim Walker McArthur. Edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1964.

    3. [S1500] Clifford L. Stott, "The Chaplin Family of Co. Suffolk: Ancestors of the Plumb and Parke Families of Connecticut." The American Genealogist 82:250, October 2007.

    4. [S1362] Ezra Reed and Esther Edgerton: Their Life and Ancestry by Charles E. Benton. Poughkeepsie, New York: A. V. Haight, 1912., first name only.

    5. [S978] American Ancestors and Cousins of the Princess of Wales by Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1984.

    6. [S972] Genealogy of the Descendants of William Chesebrough of Boston, Rehoboth, Mass. by Anna Chesebrough Wildey. New York: T. A. Wright, 1903., first name only.

    7. [S925] Spencer Miller, "Willie, Denison and Abbott Families of Bishop's Stortford, Co. Herts, England." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 67:46, January 1936.

    8. [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society.

    9. [S965] Randy A. West, "Alice Freeman, Wife of John Tompson of Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, and of Robert Parke of Connecticut: New Information on Her Parents, Siblings, Children, and First Husband." The American Genealogist 87:209, January-April 2015.

    10. [S1436] Randy A. West, "New Information on the Edwards Ancestry of Alice (Freeman) (Tompson) Parke of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and Connecticut." The American Genealogist 88:302, October 2016.

    11. [S966] David L. Greene, "Mary, Wife of the Rev. Richard Blinman of Marshfield, Gloucester, and New London: An Unsolved Problem." The Genealogist (n.s.) 4:173, Fall 1983., "about 1615".

    12. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., "abt. 1615".

    13. [S3783] Clarence Almon Torrey, "John Tomson of Little Preston, Northamtonshire, England." The American Genealogist 14:145, Jan 1938., "by Apr. 1, 1616".

    14. [S4234] Randy A. West, "John Tompson of Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, First Husband of Alice1 (Freeman) (Thompson) Parke of Massachusetts and Connecticut." The American Genealogist 91:39, Apr/Jul/Oct 2019.

    15. [S978] American Ancestors and Cousins of the Princess of Wales by Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1984., date only.

    16. [S977] The Blackmans of Knight's Creek: Ancestors and Descendants of George and Maria (Smith) Blackman by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1980., date only.

    17. [S1699] McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines by Selim Walker McArthur. Edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1964., date only.

    18. [S3781] Clarence Almon Torrey, "Alice (Freeman) (Tompson) Parke." The American Genealogist 13:1, July 1936., date only.

    19. [S6072] Perry Streeter, "Robert Parke of Mystic, Connecticut." 1999, updated 25 Oct 2000., year and place only.


 

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