Alice Wilcox Stephens

• Alice was the youngest daughter of six children her parents were Edward Stevens and Joan Fowler, who married Christorpher Willcox, Esq.

Married

• Married Christopher Wilcox in 1584 in Eastington Alkerton, Gloucestershire, England.

Stevens Geneology

Edward Stevens, Lord of the Manor of Eastington & Joan Fowler had issue;

• I. Richard, of Eastington, his heir, of whom presently. Richard Stephens, Esq., of Eastington, Alkerton, Fretherne and Horsley, co. Gloucester, succeeded his father in the manors, and married first Margaret, daughter of Edward St. Leo, Esq., of Knighton, co. Wilts, and married secondly Ann, daughter of Kery who survived him and was buriedatEastington. HediedDecember,1599,andwas buried at Eastington. By his first wife Margaret had issue. He is listed in his fathers Will.
• II. John, of Eastington, In Vol. XX of these Publications, p. 151, is one of these records that John Stephens was the second son of Sir Edward Stephens. He is listed in his fathers Will.
• III. Thomas, of Lypiatt Park, born 1558, of whom sub- sequently. See Line II. He is listed in his fathers Will
• IV. Elizabeth, who married Thomas Higges, Esq., of Cheltenham, co. Gloucester, and was buried at Eastington, December 2, 1581. She died before her father.
• V. Margaret, who married John Parker, Esq., of Barn- wood. She is listed in her fathers Will.
• VI. Alice, who married Willcox, Esq. She is listed as Alice Wilcox in her fathers Will.

Will of Alice’s Father Edward Stephens, Esq from England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, PROB 11: Will Registers, Piece 71: Spencer, Quire Numbers 41-82,(1587)

There were the Baronet family of Sheaffes, the Chatfields, Wilcoxes and other Englishmen of gentle blood ; and, as already seen, there was close contact between these men and current affairs in high quarters, in the mother country. Colonel George Fenwick, resident near by, had been a member of the Long Parliament.

Links

• Stevens Genealogy page 27 - http://www.stevensancestry.com/library/stevensgenealogy1904stev.pdf
• http://www.brownhistory.org/gedcom-files/alexander/pafg27.htm#225
• http://www.brownhistory.org/gedcom-files/alexander/pafg23.htm
• http://bransoncook.systemaxonline.com/gedcoms/fitzstephens/pafg17.htm

Sources:

• 1- In the English portion of the genealogy the English custom is followed of first giving the names of all sons, and then of all daughters without reference to age. The records preclude doing otherwise.
• 2- W. R. Williams, p. 98.
• 3 - See Trimbe's Abbeys, Castles and and Ancient Halls of England, Vol. II, 455, 457.
• 4 - Nichol's Hist., co. Leic. I, 586.
• 5- The illustration is from Fosbrook's Abstracts of Records and MSS., co. Glouc. 405.
• 6 - Stevens genealogy. Some descendants of the Fitz Stephen family in England and New England,by Stevens, Charles Ellis, 1853-1906 - https://archive.org/details/stevensgenealogy00stev/page/n37
• 7 - Burke's Landed Gentry, II, 1915, gives the date of his death October 19, 1594. Burke's Extinct Baronetcies, 506, gives it February 19, 1590.
• The Prominent Families of the United States of America, Volume 1, By Arthur Meredyth Burke - https://books.google.com/books?id=uxEwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA293&lpg=PA293&d...
• Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, Etc: Copied from the Manuscript ..., Volume 3, By Frederick Arthur Crisp - https://books.google.com/books?id=2FttAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&d...