♀Alice Stonor

Alice Stonor is said to have been a daughter of Thomas Stonor of Stonor in Oxfordshire, England, an esquire, and the wife of Humphrey Forster of Harpsden, near Henley-on-Thames in the same county. She was the fifteenth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her son Humphrey Forster.

She and her husband stand at the head of the pedigree of their descendants, the Forsters of Aldermaston, that the heralds recorded at their visitation^W of Berkshire in 1566. The heralds named only one of the couple’s children: their eldest son, Humphrey Forster, who was styled of Harpsden like his father and married the fourth daughter and one of the heirs of Sir Stephen Popham, a Hampshire knight.

Notes

The heralds’ pedigree

Everything known of Alice comes from the pedigree of the Forsters of Aldermaston in the 1566 heralds’ visitation of Berkshire, as printed by W. C. Metcalfe in 1885 (page 12). It opens with her husband, Humphrey Forster “of Harpeden, co. Oxon., Esq.”, who “mar. Alice, da. to Thomas Stoner” of Stonor, esquire, “and by her had issue” Humphrey, “his eldest son”. It names no other child of the couple, prints no dates for her or her husband and does not name her mother.

Her father

The heralds give her father no dates and nothing beyond his name, his rank and his home. The Stonor family’s own pedigree in the Oxfordshire visitations, as printed by the Harleian Society in 1871 (volume 5, pages 143–144), names no daughter married to a Forster.

When she lived

The pedigree gives no dates. The nearest date comes from her son’s marriage: Sir Stephen Popham, whose daughter the younger Humphrey married, died on 14 November 1444 (Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2005, pages 672–673).