Alice Berney

Alice married Henry Berney, son of John Berney and Margaret Read. (Henry Berney died 4 Mar 1583/84 in Reedham, Norfolk, England 1 and was buried in Reedham Church, Norfolk, England.)

Biography

'Walsham Hundred: Reedham', An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: volume 11 (1810), pp. 121-132. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78765 Date accessed: 11 December 2013

(6) Henry Berney, Esq. married Alice, daughter of Roger Appleton of Dartford in Kent, Esq. and Agnes his wife, daughter of Walter Clark of Hadley in Suffolk, Esq. and heir to her brother Edward; in the reign of Philip and Mary, he removed the old family seat near Redham church, into Redham park, where he built a magnificent seat, yet standing, called Park-hall, with large gardens, &c. in 1557, and died in 1584, leaving several sons and daughters; Thomas, his son and heir, Henry, John, Edward, and Richard.
Alice, one of his daughters, married to Thomas Guybon, Esq. of Lynn; Margaret, to Edward Paston, Esq. of Appleton in Norfolk, Mary, to-Elstoff.
Alice his wife survived him, and erected a handsome marble altar monument over him in the chapel, on the south side of the chancel of the church, with both their effigies thereon, their sons behind him, and daughters behind her, and this distich: Hunc tumulum Conjux posuit dilecta Marito, Quemq; Viro posuit, destinat ipsa Sibi.
On it are the arms of Berney, quartering Redham, gules, a chevron engrailed, between three reed sheafs, or, in the 2d quarter; in the 3d, Caston, gules, a chevron between three eagles displayed, argent, and Berney in the 4th quarter, impaling Appleton, argent, a fess engrailed, sable, between three apples, leaved proper, and - - - - quarterly.

References

• http://shoresclan.com/johnsonganc82014/37610.html
• 1 John Bennell Boddie, Historical Southern Families (Redwood City, California: n.p., 1959), IV: 130.
• 2 'Walsham Hundred: Reedham', An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk; Vol II, pp. 121-132, British History Online (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78765 : downloaded 12 Dec 2013), p. 5.
• Richardson, Douglas (2004) Plantagenet Ancestry, A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, p. 39 19. Roger Appleton, Esq., of Dartford, Kent and South Benfleet, Essex, son and heir, born about 1520 (aged 25 in 1545). He married Agnes Clarke (or Clerke), daughter of Walter Clarke, Gent., of Hadleigh, Suffolk, and sister and heiress to Edward Clarke. They had five sons, Henry, Esq., William, Gent., Roger, John, and Edmund, and five daughters, Margaret (wife of Peter Loone), Mary (wife of Richard Warde, Knt.), Alice, Ann, and Agnes. ROGER APPLETON, Esq., died testate (P.C.C. 28 Noodes) 26 Feb. 1557. His widow, Agnes, married 2nd Thomas Gibbon, Esq., of West Lynn, Norfolk, son of Thomas Gibbon, Esq., of West Lynn, Norfolk.