Person:Michael Spencer (1)

Named in his mother's will, dated 13 June 1560, "son Michael, to have the chest that was his brother John's" (John had died just a few months earlier).

"The division of Michael's children between the two wives is somewhat different from what might be inferred from the Rev. Mr. Holding's book, because of the discovery of the burial of the first wife, Agnes, early in 1562. The name of the mother is not stated in the Edworth baptisms, but Elizabeth is stated as mother of the two children, Gerard and Richard, who were baptized at Stotfold. We therefore assume that Elizabeth was mother of the other children who were born after 1562 and before the birth of Gerard in 1576, though it remains possible that there was a second, unknown, wife between Agnes and Elizabeth." ^S1

1. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines, “The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants,”, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Apr, Jul 1951; Jan, Apr, Oct 1952; Jan, Apr, Jul 1953; Jan, Oct 1954)
   Vol. 27-28, 1951.

   http://www.tarheel24.com/genealogy/text/spentag.txt. Also supplied info for Michael Spencer’s 1977 Spencer Genealogy. "...married second, about 1563, Elizabeth ____, who was buried at Stotfold, Beds, 18 Nov 1599, as wife of Michael Spencer, signifying that he was then alive."

2. ↑ Michael Spencer, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Apr, Jul 1951; Jan, Apr, Oct 1952; Jan, Apr, Jul 1953; Jan, Oct 1954)
   27:81.

   2. Michael Spencer, born probably 1530-1535, living in 1599;