Alice Townsend

Events

Date of Birth: about 1556.

Place of Birth: probably Lighthorne, Warwickshire.

There is a gap in the Lighthorne registers from 1554 to 1558, and Alice seems to have been born about then. Her uncle Allan Townsend's wills makes a bequest to "the three children of John Townsend (that is) Joan, Alice, & Agnes." Joan was baptized in 1548 and Agnes in 1558. In 1551 a daughter who did not survive was baptized, and in 1553 a daughter, Ellen, mentioned elsewhere in Allan's will was baptized.

Date of Burial: 20 June 1621.

Place of Burial: Lighthorne.

The burial is recorded in the parish register.

Relationships

Father: John Townsend.

Alice's father is named in her uncle Allan Townsend's will and in her uncle Richard Townsend's will.

Mother: Eleanor.

Eleanor is named in her burial record.

Spouse: John Harber. Married 6 October 1578 in Lighthorne.

The marriage is recorded in the parish register.

Children:

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

Eleanor Harbar (baptized 16 September 1579 in Lighthorne)

William Harbar (baptized 4 July 1582 in Lighthorne - died in 1665 or 1666) married Mary.

Richard Harbar (baptized 19 March 1584/5 in Lighthorne)

John Harbar (baptized 19 June 1588 in Lighthorne)

Agnes Harbar (baptized 13 December 1591 in Lighthorne)

Evidence

from the Lighthorne parish register:

[1578, Weddings] A.^o 1578 . die. 6. octobris. Jo Harber et Aelicia Townsend

[1621] Alice Harbar buryed the xx: day of June :/.

In the 1610 probate inventory of John Townsend of Lighthorne, most of the appraisers have some connection to Alice Townsend: Ralph Lees (an overseer of her husband's 1616 will), Thomas Mason (her husband's sister's husband), John Harbert (her husband). John Townsend's widow was named Dorothy [Chapman]. Since they were married in 1586, perhaps John was Alice's brother.

References

Lighthorne parish register. Digital images on Findmypast.co.uk accessed 25 December 2019.

Probate inventory of John Townsend of Lighthorne, 1610. Consistory Court of Worcester. Digitial images on FamilySearch.org.

Will of Alanne Townsend of Lighthorne. Proved 1561 in the Consistory Court of Worcester. Digital images on FamilySearch.org.

Will of Richarde Townesende of St Mary's Warwick. Proved 1576 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Digital images on Ancestry.com.