Alice Welles

Maiden name unknown. Evidence needed to support Alice as daughter of Thomas Hunt, of Exeter

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hunt-798

The name of the wife of Robert Welles is known from the Chancery suit brought by her grandson John Welles to recover land in Burmington, Worcestershire, England. Her name was given as Alice with no clue given as to her LNAB or parentage.[1][2]

They had two known sons, Robert and Thomas; however, it is likely they had several more.
Alice was last known living in November 1615 when the Final Concord was made settling property on their son Thomas Welles.[3][4][5]

Birth

Born: Say 1645. [sic: 1545]

The date is rough estimate to make her birth date approximately match that of her husband. She may have been born later given the estimated birth dates of her children and grandchildren.

Marriage and Children
Married: Robert Welles.

Children:

1. Robert Welles. Born say 1580. Named as eldest son in the 1548-1550 Chancery suit. He was buried on 21 June 1627.
2. Thomas Welles. Born say 1590. He married in 1615 Alice Tomes when land was settled on him by his father in consideration of his marriage. He immigrated to New England in 1635. Thomas Welles died on 14 January 1659/60 at Wethersfield, Connecticut.[6]

Death

Died: After November 1615.

Date of Final Concord was made settling property on their son Thomas Welles.[7]

Research Notes
Last Name At Birth: This profile previously called her Alice Hunt, daughter of Thomas Hunt of Astley, Shropshire, England and his wife Agnes. No evidence has been found to support this, and it is extremely unlikely that she would have come from Shropshire.

Final Concord of 1615 Fine:

Final Concord made in Michaelmas Term, 13 James I (2-25 November 1615] between Thomas Kecke and Joseph Phelps, querents, and Robert Wells, Sr. and Alice, his wife, Robert Wells, Jr., and Joan, his wife, and Thomas Wells, deforciants, concerning one messuage, one cottage, two gardens, two orchards, seventy acres of land, six acres of meadow, forty acres of pasture, and six acres of furze, heath, and common pasture, in Burmington, co. Warwick, with warranty against Robert, Robert, and Thomas, their heirs and assigns. (Feet of Fines, Warwickshire, Michaelmas Term, 13 James I, 366).

Sources

1. ↑ Mathews. Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles. (2015): pages 162-163.
2. ↑ NEHGR, vol. 80. English Ancestry of Gov. Thomas Welles. (1926): page 300.
3. ↑ Mathews. Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles. (2015): page 162.
4. ↑ NEHGR, vol. 80. English Ancestry of Gov. Thomas Welles. (1926): page 300.
5. ↑ Note that the NEHGR article uses the date 5 July 1615 which is the original date of the Fine. Lemuel Welles apparently did not have the Final Concord dated 1 November 1615.
6. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles, (1995) "Thomas Welles," featured name. Great Migration 1634-1635, T-Y. NEHGS, AmericanAncestors.org (Vol VII T-Y, Pages 288-92).
7. ↑ Mathews. Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles. (2015): page 162.
8. Mathews, Barbara Jean. The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, volume 1, 3rd edition (Connecticut: Welles Family Association, 2015).
9. Welles, Lemuel A., The English Ancestry of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut, in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 80 number 3 (NEHGS: July 1926): pages 279-305. Reprint also available reprint here.
10. Jacobus, Donald Lines, compiled & edited (1930-2). History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. For the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (Fairfield, Connecticut), Vol. 1, page 655
11. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137709420/alice-welles (has unsupported information)