♀Alice Weston

Alice Weston was a woman of Lichfield, in Staffordshire, who outlived her husband, John Bawle. Her daughter Isabel Bawle married John White, a gentleman of Stanton St John, in Oxfordshire. She was the thirteenth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her daughter Isabel Bawle.

John Bawle is said to have married Alice Weston, and they had four known children: John Ball; Robert Ball, who became a clergyman at Eastington; Henry Ball; and Isabel Bawle. John had died by 1574, when, it is said, his widow, Alice Ball of Lichfield, bought the advowson^W of the parish of Bucknell, the right to name its parish priest, which in England was a piece of property that could be bought and sold. The records do not show when or where she died.

Notes

Sources

Alice is known from compiled sources only. Her name, her children and her purchase of the advowson come from Michael Russell’s compiled pages on the Ball family for the Fordington, Dorset, online parish clerks, which spell her married surname Ball and state that “John died prior to 1574 when his widow Alice Ball of Lichfield purchased the advowson of the parish of Bucknell”. The pages do not say which Bucknell is meant. The pedigree of “White of Dorchester” in W. Harry Rylands, ed., Pedigrees from the Visitations of Hampshire (Harleian Society 64, 1913), pp. 229-230, names her daughter “Isabell da. of John Bawle of Litchfeild” but does not name Isabel’s mother.

Parentage

Russell’s pages presume that she was a daughter of a John Weston. Her daughter’s mother-in-law, Mildred, the wife of John White of Timsbury, was also a Weston; the records do not show whether the two women were related.