Alice Whitbread

b. 1578 · Upper Gravenhurst, England

Born 1578, probably Upper Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England

Father: John Whitbread

Mother: Eleanor Whitbread

Children include William, Ens.

Alice Whitbread was born about 1578, probably at Upper Gravenhurst in Bedfordshire, a daughter of John Whitbread and his wife Eleanor. The Upper Gravenhurst register of those years does not name the parents at baptisms. Her place in the family rests on her marriage, on her children's names, and on her mother's will.

On 10 November 1600 she married Gerard Spencer of Stotfold at Upper Gravenhurst. They had nine children baptised at Stotfold between 1601 and 1614: William, Elizabeth, John, Henry, Thomas, Richard, a son who died unnamed, Michael and Gerard. Henry and Richard died as small boys.

Her mother remembered two of Alice's sons in her spoken will, proved in 1629. William, her godson, got a silver spoon. Thomas got forty six shillings and eightpence. In 1611 Alice's husband and her brother William Whitbread sold a large spread of land together in the parishes around Gravenhurst.

Four of her sons, William, Thomas, Michael and Gerard, went to New England. When and where Alice died is not recorded.

Parents

John Whitbread (1548-1598)

Eleanor Whitbread d. 1628

Children

William Spencer b. 1601 Ens. Gerard Spencer b. 1614

Sources

F. G. Emmison, ed., Bedfordshire Parish Registers, vol. 38, Stotfold, p. A3, archive.org bedfordshirepari38bedf

F. G. Emmison, ed., Bedfordshire Parish Registers, vol. 38, Stotfold, p. A4, archive.org bedfordshirepari38bedf

Donald Lines Jacobus, "The Four Spencer Brothers," The American Genealogist 27 (1951), p. 84, archive.org sim_american-genealogist_1951-04_27_2

Clarence Almon Torrey, "The Whitbread Family," The American Genealogist 32 (1956), p. 135, archive.org sim_american-genealogist_1956-07_32_3

Clarence Almon Torrey, "The Whitbread Family," The American Genealogist 32 (1956), p. 136, archive.org sim_american-genealogist_1956-07_32_3

Donald Lines Jacobus, "The Four Spencer Brothers," The American Genealogist 27 (1951), pp. 80-84, archive.org sim_american-genealogist_1951-04_27_2; Clarence Almon Torrey, "The Whitbread Family," The American Genealogist 32 (1956), pp. 133-136, archive.org sim_american-genealogist_1956-07_32_3; F. G. Emmison, ed., Bedfordshire Parish Registers, vol. 38, Stotfold, baptisms pp. A2-A4 and burials p. A38, archive.org bedfordshirepari38bedf

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