Person:Alice Unknown (773)
Alice _____
 
 
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  1. William Olmsted
  2. John Olmsted
  3. James OlmstedEst 1550 - 1595
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Name Alice _____
Gender Female
Residence[1] 1552/53 Great Waltham, Essex, Englandnamed as a widow on Subsidy Rolls
Marriage Great Waltham, Essex, Englandto James Olmsted
References
  1. ↑ THE RESULT OF THE SEARCH FOR THE ANCESTORS OF JAMES OLMSTED, SET ON FOOT BY FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, in Olmsted, Henry King (1824-1896), and George Kemp Ward (1848-1937). Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America: Embracing the Descendants of James and Richard Olmstead and Covering a Period of Nearly Three Centuries, 1632-1912. (New York: A. T. DeLaMare, 1912)
    x.

    Mr. Briggs of London was employed in 1890 to search all available records in order to ascertain the birthplace of the family of the Olmsteds who came to New England in 1632. ... He proceeded to search the Subsidy Rolls. He found that ... James [Olmsted], had married there [the parish of Great Waltham] one Alice (family name not found, but presumably either Hawkyns or Sorrell). The fourth payment of the subsidy (due 3d year Edward VI.) was not collected till the 6th year of Edward VI. (1552-3) and in the return then made "the widowe Holmstede" is found in the parish of Great Waltham "in the place of James," showing plainly that he had died in the interval between 1550 and 1553. It seems to be proved that James and Alice were the parents of the James who lived at Great Leighs, and died in 1595, and grandparents of James, the emigrant. The Sorrells and Hawkynses mentioned in the will of "Als," below, both lived near James in Great Waltham. ...

  2.   Will abstract of Als Hownsted, in Olmsted, Henry King (1824-1896), and George Kemp Ward (1848-1937). Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America: Embracing the Descendants of James and Richard Olmstead and Covering a Period of Nearly Three Centuries, 1632-1912. (New York: A. T. DeLaMare, 1912)
    xiii.

    Archdeaconry of Essex, Rypton clxvij 167
    Abstract of the will of Als Hownsted* of the psh of Great Lees, wedoo. 2nd July, 1533.
    To sons James William and John
    To the High Altar of Lees Parva [Little Leighs] 8s.
    John Sorrell and son James exor.
    John Hawkyn of Much Waltham, supervisor.
    Witnesses:
    SIR ROGER HYDE, curat.
    JOHN INGELOND.
    WILLIAM THARE.
    AND OTHERS MO.
    To be buried in the churchyard of our Ladi.
    To Jams and William all my copyhold lands equally between them.
    Proved 2nd August, 1533.

    * Dr. Manning says that "Hawnstead Farm" still exists in Great Leighs.
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    [Note: From other references, it is clear that the author considers this to be the will of the mother of James Olmstead who married Jane Bristow.]

    [Note: There would appear to be an error somewhere, as widow Alice is named on the Subsidy Roll of 1552/53 and the author estimates that Alice's son James was born about 1550 - it seems unlikely that he would have been named even as a co-executor at the age of 3. Possibilities include:
    - the dates given in the abstract are incorrect (maybe they should be 1553 or 1583 instead of 1533);
    - the estimated birth year of son James is incorrect (and Jane was not his first wife);
    - this will is from an earlier generation (not the mother of the James who married Jane Bristow).]

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