Alice Whitbread

Abt 1578 -

• Name	Alice Whitbread  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1578	Upper Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I856	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	3 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	John Whitbread,   b. Abt 1548, of Upper Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England d. Bef 28 Nov 1598, St. Giles, Upper Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England (Age ~ 50 years)
  Mother	Eleanor,   b. Abt 1540-1550   d. Bef 23 Aug 1626, Woburn, Bedfordshire, England (Age ~ 76 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1565-1570  [3]
  Family ID	F558	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Gerard Spencer,   b. Bef 20 May 1576, Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England d. Bef 1646 (Age < 69 years)
  Marriage	10 Nov 1600	Upper Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England   [4, 5]
  Children	1. Michael Spencer,   b. Bef 5 May 1611   d. Bef 29 Nov 1653, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts (Age < 42 years)   2. Jared Spencer,   b. Bef 25 Apr 1614   d. Aft 17 Sep 1683, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age > 69 years)   3. William Spencer,   b. Bef 11 Oct 1601   d. Aft 4 May 1640, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut (Age > 39 years)
  Family ID	F458	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Feb 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Or Whitbred. Alice Whitbread (b. ~1578) pings the gentry-detecting spider-sense of every genealogist with any experience dealing with the late Middle Ages. Many theories of Alice Whitbread's ancestry have been ventured. To us the most convincing is Don C. Stone's, reproduced in full on our entry for Alice Whitbread's mother Eleanor. If Stone's reasoning is correct, the connection through the Hervey family to the Great Medieval Cloud is trivially easy to establish.

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S390] Freeman" target="_blank">http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/index.htm">Freeman Family Lines, from the files of Stephen M. Lawson (via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine). [S945] Paul C. Reed, 7 Sep 2001, post to soc.genealogy.medieval. [S389] Donald Lines Jacobus, "The Four Spencer Brothers -- Their Ancestors and Descendants." The American Genealogist 27:79, April 1951. [S906] The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and His Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth by N. Grier Parke II, edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. Woodstock, Vermont: The Elm Tree Press, 1960.