Alice was named by my 4x great grandfather Thomas Harwood, blacksmith of Sutton,Sussex in his will made 2nd April 1813,probate Chichester 9 Jan 1817 as one of his daughters, the will can be seen here:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DY99-QBH?i=505&cat=1022203
She is the last named daughter, all the other children I know about appear in the will in order of birth, boys first then girls:
I would guess she was born after Elizabeth (1788) I have been through every page of Sutton baptisms from the time of her parents' marriage (1788) on FamilySearch images, both the originals (scruffily kept) and the Bishops Transcripts (neat and tidy) and there is no trace of Alice,neither is there a burial. Her mother Mary had her last recorded child, Edmund, in1803 when she was about 45/46 so I would guess that Alice was born before this.
The Sussex Marriage Index has no marriage for an Alice Harwood up to 1837, and I cannot find a marriage out of county before or that.
Sussex Family History Group online records have no burial or an Alice Harwood. Using FreeBMD no-one of that name died in Sussex 1837-1841, none married in that period. An Alice Harwood married in 1844 in London but her father was Samuel. No Alice with a birthplace of Sutton, Sussex with a credible birthdate found on any census.
Edmund Harwood, her brother, named his firstborn daughter Alice in 1835.
What have I missed?
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DY99-QBH?i=505&cat=1022203
She is the last named daughter, all the other children I know about appear in the will in order of birth, boys first then girls:
Order in will |
Baptismal order |
Thomas born c1780 Edward bapt 1782 Henry bapt 1786 James bapt 1797 Edmund bapt 1803 Mary bapt 1779 Eleanor bapt 1783 Elizabeth bapt 1788 Not named Ann bapt 1791 bur 1806. Frances bapt 1794 |
Mary 31 Jan 1779 Thomas c1780 (bapt missing, age calculated from age at burial in 1845, wife’s newspaper death announcement of 1877 states she was the widow of Thomas Harwood blacksmith) Edward 24th Mar 1782 Elenor 2 Feb 1783 Henry 4th June 1786 Elizabeth 31st Aug 1788 Ann 27th Dec 1791 Frances 17th Aug 1794 James 25th Jun 1797 Edmund 18th Oct 1803 |
The Sussex Marriage Index has no marriage for an Alice Harwood up to 1837, and I cannot find a marriage out of county before or that.
Sussex Family History Group online records have no burial or an Alice Harwood. Using FreeBMD no-one of that name died in Sussex 1837-1841, none married in that period. An Alice Harwood married in 1844 in London but her father was Samuel. No Alice with a birthplace of Sutton, Sussex with a credible birthdate found on any census.
Edmund Harwood, her brother, named his firstborn daughter Alice in 1835.
What have I missed?
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