Alice Woodbury

Not the same as Alice Blish

Alice was probably born in England, but her parentage and date of birth are not known. We estimate a birth date of about 1657 (seen as Feb 6 1657 in Marblehead) based on the birth date of her oldest known child of 1679 (at age 21). She possibly married in England also, because no record seems to exist of her marriage in new England.

She was the wife of John Darby, a fisherman of Marblehead, Massachusetts. He died in 1690, leaving her with five [four?] children.

Soon after the settling of his estate, on July 2, 1690 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, Alice Darby was married to John Woodbury of Beverly by Maj. Samuel Appleton. He was the son of Humphrey Woodbury and the widower of Elizabeth Tenney. They had seven children.

The date of her death is unknown but her youngest child was born in 1701.

She is not to be confused with Alice Blish, widow of John Derby of Yarmouth and 3rd wife of Abraham Blish, who was a much older woman.

family

The parents of Alice Woodbury are not known.

John and Alice Darby had children:

• i. Alice, b. Oct. 22. 1679; d. Apr. 23, 1758; (pub.) Sept. 21, 1700, to Jonathan Piper, of Ipswich, Mass.
• 2. ii. John b. Oct. 8, 1681; d. Mav 7, 1753, at Concord, Mass.
• iii. Mary2, b. Sept. 29, 1683; d. before 1723 (?);m., March 2, 1704, Jeremiah, son of Joseph and Eliza Hebberd (Hubbard), of Beverlv, Mass.
• 3. iv. Joseph ^'bapt. Oct. 18, 1685; d. ; m. Sarah . Last notice of him, Oct. 26, 1713, then a "coaster," of Gloucester, Mass.
• 4. v. Benjamin^, bapt. Oct. 16, 1687; d. before Oct. 26, 1713 (?) unm. (?).

John and Alice Woodbury had children:

1. Beverly, V1:389 Patience, d. John and Ales, May 18, 1691.
2. Beverly, V1:388 John, s. John and Ales [Alice, C.R.1.], Feb. 6, 1692-3.
3. Beverly, Daniel, s. John and Alce, Jan. 27, 1694-5
4. Beverly, Richard, s. John "by his wife," July 7, 1696
5. Beverly, V1:387 Humphery, s. John and Alce, July 3, 1698.
6. Beverly, V1:388 Johanah, d. John and Alce, Nov. 16, 1699.
7. Beverly, Ebenezer, s. John and Alice, November 9, 1701

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notes

1. John Darby, fisherman, resided at Marblehead, Mass. His parentage, place and date of birth, place and date of marriage, and of death are unknown. The earliest known mention of him occurs in Coffin's Copy of Essex Co. (Mass.) Court Records, Vol. II, p. 300. He is named there as a creditor of John Clay, a Marblehead fisherman who had been slain by the Indians. The amount of the debt was £3; the date of entry in Coffin is Nov. 8, 1677.

His wife's name was Alice . Her parentage, date of birth and of death are not known. The inventory of John Darby's estate, bearing date of June 17, 1690, is found in Coffin's Copy of Essex Co. Court Records, Vol. Ill, p. 419

http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/woodbury/798/

Here is the source information that I have:
ELIZABETH TENNEY born 9 Apr 1642 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts to William and Katherin was married about 1669 to JOHN WOODBURY the son of Humphery.She died 16 Apr 1689 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts.He died 22 Jan 1715/1716.He married Ales Blish [SIC: this was a different Alice Blish] 2 Jul 1690 as a second wife. CHILDREN: Elizabeth, Mary, Ruth, Sarah, Samuel, Peter, Susannah, Rebecca

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• From Torrey 1:446: DARBY, John (-1690?) & Alice ____; m/2 John WOODBURY 1690; by 1679; Marblehead {Reg. 43:95; Salem 1:83; Derby 1; Warren (,5) 143; EIHC 4:282, 35:263, 47:252}
• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jan 11 2017, 20:00:28 UTC
• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jan 11 2017, 23:33:38 UTC
• http://www.woodbury-ober.com/individual.php?pid=I25857&ged=Woodbury... has her maiden name as Dennis with no attribution
• http://news.rootsweb.com/th/read/DARBY/2006-10/1160827393
  • Information for this biography taken from two Darby genealogies, "John Darby of Marblehead, Mass. and His Descendants" and "Derby Genealogy: A Record of the Descendants of John Darby of Marblehead, Mass.", "The History of Westminister, Mass.", "The History of Middlesex County" and the Marblehead Historical Society.

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• Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Jan 15 2017, 4:41:49 UTC

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• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Feb 1 2018, 6:32:39 UTC