Alice Donne

Events 

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Richard Donne.

Mother: Mabel.

See the Commentary section below.

Spouse: Richard Starky.

Alice is recorded as Richard’s widow in a 1290 quitclaim (See below).

Spouse: Robert de Cholmondeley.

This relationship is recorded in a 1290 quitclaim (See below.)

Children: 

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Randle Starky married (1) Ellen; married (2) Alice.

Geoffrey Starky.

Annora Starky married Robert de Winnington.

Evidence

from the Cheshire Archives catalogue:

Quitclaim of lands in Duckington.  c. 1290   [DCH/J/75/2]

[Party 1 Alice Doun, in pure widowhood after the death of her former husband Richard Starki [Starky], has

entirely remitted and quitclaimed to party 2 Hugh, son and heir of Richard, lord of Chelmondeleg' [Cholmondeley], and his heirs or assignees all her right or claim which she possessed or had power to possess on land in Docinton [Duckington] which Richard, her brother, gave to her and to Robert de Chelmondeleg' [Cholmondeley] in free marriage so that neither she nor her heirs nor anyone in her name

may demand or lay claim to any right or claim on the said land.

Witnesses: Hugh de Dutton, knight, Hugh de durem [Durham?], then bailiff of Hauelton [Halton], Robert de Wininton [Winnington], Hugh de Merebury [Marbury], John de Merebury [Marbury], Ralph the roter, Robert the chamberleyn [chamberlain] de Frodesham [Frodsham], and others.

Commentary

A few documents from the late 13th century in the Cheshire Archives catalogue make clear that Alice is from the Dones of Utkinton.

Grant by Richard Doun to Henry Don' his brother, of a piece of land in the lower part of the township, for the purpose of building on, and an assart in Kyngesleg' called le Holelehes. Witnesses: William son of Gerard, William de lanc'elin, William de Helysby and others. Endorsed: 'Carta Ric' Donn de Utkynton fact' Henrico Don' fr' suo de ten' in Codynton. Sans date. (42)'. Seal tag, seal missing. 

no date, 13th century     DAR/G 84/15

Richard and Henry witness a number of documents in the late 1200s:

c. 1277  Kingsley  Henry Doun wit.    DCH/F/920  

c. 1277 Kingsley  Richard Doun wit.   DCH/F/921 

c. 1278 Northley  Richard Doun wit.   DCH/F*/209 

c. 1280 Kingsley  Richard Doun wit.   DAR/B 61/1 

c. 1290  Kingsley  Richard Doun wit.   DCH/F/922 

1290-1300 Nether Bradley  Richard Done wit.   DCH/F/808 

c. 1296 Lower Bradley  Richard Doun wit.   DCH/C/406 

1300 Kingsley  Henry Doun wit    DCH/F/919 

Helsby (Ormerod/Helsby vol.2, p. 133 fn) notes that in the Plea Rolls 44 Hen. III [1259/60] it is recorded that Mabel, who was wife to Richard de Donn, sues the coheirs of Kingsley, and Richard (a minor), son and heir of Richard de Donn, her late husband, for dower of lands in Crowton and Kingsley. The son and heir Richard must be Alice’s brother in the 1290 quitclaim. 

Helsby conjectures that Mabel is a daughter of Ranulph de Kyngesley and Mabel de Moston.

References

Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).