ALICE FREEMAN

• Birth Notes
  • She was born Abt. 1595 in Cranford, Northamptonshire, England

• Death Notes
  • died February 11, 1664/65 in Mystic, New London Co., Connecticut.
    Burial: Old Whitehall Cemetery, Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut
    
    
    

• General Notes
  • Children of JOHN THOMPSON and ALICE FREEMAN are:
    
                  i.   BRIDGETTE THOMPSON, b. September 11, 1622, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England; d. August 1645, Roxbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts; m. CAPT. GEORGE DENISON, March 1639/40, Roxbury, Norfolk, MA; b. December 10, 1620, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England; d. October 23, 1694, Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut.
    
    
    
    
    
                  ii.   (1) DOROTHY THOMPSON, d. Bef. October 19, 1621.
    
    
    
    Notes for (1) DOROTHY THOMPSON:
    
    Sources: The American Genealogist, 13/2; History of Stonington; Potter-Richardson Memorial.
    
       Am. Genealogist: Dority Thompson, baptized 2 July 1621, Preston Capes Parish, Northamptonshire. Buried 19 Oct. 1621.
    
       Stonington: Dorothy Thompson, died 19 Oct. 1621.
    
       Memorial: Dorothy Thompson, 1621-1621.
    
    
    
    
    
    More About (1) DOROTHY THOMPSON:
    
    Burial: October 19, 1621, Preston Capes, Parish, Northamptonshire, England
    
    Christening: July 02, 1621, Preston Capes, Parish, Northamptonshire, England
    
    
    
                 iii.   DOROTHY THOMPSON, b. Aft. 1621, Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England; d. 1709, Preston, New London Co., Connecticut; m. THOMAS PARKE, SR., 1642, Roxbury, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts; b. February 13, 1615/16, Hitcham, Suffolk, England; d. July 30, 1709, Preston, New London Co., Connecticut.
    
    
    
    
    
                 iv.   THOMAS THOMPSON, b. December 23, 1616; d. April 20, 1655, Farmington, Connecticut.
    
    
    
    Notes for THOMAS THOMPSON:
    
    Source: The American Genealogist, 14/145 & 146.
    
       TAG: Thomas Tomson, born Dec. 23, 1616. Age 9 years, 10 months, and 14 days at his father's death.
    
    
    
       History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield mentions a Thomas Thomson of Farmington who married 14 April 1646 Ann Welles, daughter of Thomas Welles, held many CT Colony positions, p655, 656.
    
       Not listed as a child by Potter-Richardson Memorial.
    
    
    
    
    
    More About THOMAS THOMPSON:
    
    Christening: December 23, 1616, Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England
    
    
    
                 v.  MARY THOMPSON, b. November 14, 1619, Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England; d. August 04, 1693, Roxbury, Essex Co., MA..
    
    
    
    Notes for MARY THOMPSON:
    
    Sources: The American Genealogist, 13/2; History of Stonington;
    
    Potter-Richardson Memorial; Royal Descents; Magna Charta Sureties 163-11.
    
       Am. Genealogist: Mary Thompson, baptized 14 Nov. 1619, Preston Capes Parish, Northamptonshire.
    
       Stonington: Married Rev. Richard Blinman.
    
       Memorial: Mary Thompson, born 1619; married Rev. Blinman of Gloucester and New London.
    
    
    
       Sureties: Mary Tompson, baptized Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, 14 Nov. 1619. Died Roxbury, Mass., 4 Aug. 1693. Married Roxbury 3 Dec. 1641, Joseph Wise of Roxbury, who died 12 Sept. 1684 in Roxbury. Had a distinguished son, the Rev. John Wise, Harvard College, 1673, who was a great apostle of liberty.
    
       Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants says Mary Thompson married Joseph Wise and had a daughter Sarah who married Stephen Williams.
    
    Sources: The American Genealogist, 13/2; History of Stonington;
    
    Potter-Richardson Memorial; Royal Descents; Magna Charta Sureties 163-11.
    
       Am. Genealogist: Mary Thompson, baptized 14 Nov. 1619, Preston Capes Parish, Northamptonshire.
    
       Stonington: Married Rev. Richard Blinman.
    
       Memorial: Mary Thompson, born 1619; married Rev. Blinman of Gloucester and New London.
    
    
    
       Sureties: Mary Tompson, baptized Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, 14 Nov. 1619. Died Roxbury, Mass., 4 Aug. 1693. Married Roxbury 3 Dec. 1641, Joseph Wise of Roxbury, who died 12 Sept. 1684 in Roxbury. Had a distinguished son, the Rev. John Wise, Harvard College, 1673, who was a great apostle of liberty.
    
       Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants says Mary Thompson married Joseph Wise and had a daughter Sarah who married Stephen Williams.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    More About MARY THOMPSON:
    
    Christening: November 14, 1619, Preston Capes Parish, Northamptonshire, England
    
    
    
                 vi.   NATHANIEL THOMPSON, b. October 15, 1625, Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England.
    
                vii.   MARTHA THOMPSON, b. December 17, 1626, Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England.
    
    
    
    We do not know what date the widow and her children came to America, but previous to 1640 she was living at Roxbury, Mass."
    The baptisms of the children of Alice Freeman and John Thompson are recorded at Preston Capes, Northants. It is not known when Alice Thompson brought her son and daughters to New England, but she was living in Roxbury, Mass., before 1640. "The Thomson family in England held a high position, their social status being next to that of the county families. Mistress Alice must have been a lady of character and refinement. Her success in bringing her children through all their troubles and so well preparing them for the duties of life which they assumed, testifies to this." In New England, she married Robert Park(e). He was the father of Thomas Parke Sr., who married Dorothy Thompson, Alice's daughter. This means Robert Parke was both the father-in-law and stepfather of Dorothy. And Alice was both the mother-in-law and stepmother of Thomas Parke.
      Roberts/Reitwiesner: Alice Freeman, birth and death dates unknown, immigrant. Married Robert Parke shortly after 30 May 1644.
    
      Blackmans: Alice Freeman, died 1664/5.
    
      Additional info from AF records. One says she was born about 1587 and another in 1595.
    
      [Prodigy post says Parke Society has her lineage back to Charlemagne and King John, but 7th edition of Ancestral Roots cuts line off at Joan de Harley. Will have to check Parke Society. Roots says: "Other lines available for Alice Freeman" but doesn't list any.] "American Ancestors & Cousins of the Princess of Wales" by Roberts/Reitwiesner, lists a line back to Thomas Giffard and Joan Langston. The Giffard line then goes back to Ethelred II, King of England. The Langston line goes back to Hugh Capet, King of France. Both these lines are traced farther back via other sources.
    
       Am. Genealogist, citing The Visitations of Northamptonshire: Alice Freeman, wife of John Tomson of Preston Capes, Northamptonshire.
    
       Memorial: The baptisms of the children of Alice Freeman and John Thompson are recorded in the parish register of Preston Capes. Alice, widowed in 1627, came with her children to Roxbury, MA, by 1640. She married 30 May 1644, as second wife, Robert Parke, 1580/85-1664/5, of Wethersfield and Stonington, CT. She died in 1660.
    
       Descents: Alice Freeman of Massachusetts and (presumably) Connecticut married (1) John Thompson; (2) Robert Parke. (Dorothy Thompson, her daughter by John Thompson, married Thomas Parke, son of Robert Parke and Martha Chaplin, his first wife) are ancestors of H.R.H. The Princess of Wales and her sons, H.R.H. Prince William and H.R.H. Prince Henry of Wales.
    
       Migration: Alice Freeman Thompson of  Preston, Northamptonshire, mother of Bridget Thompson.
    
       Witter Family: Alice Freeman, died 11 Feb. 1664/5, New London, Conn. Had six children by John Thompson. Married (2) Robert Parke of Roxbury, Mass., who married (1) Martha Chaplin, daughter of Robert Chaplin. [My other sources say she was the daughter of William Chaplin.]
    
       Sureties: Alice Freeman, died New London, Conn., 11 Feb. 1664/5. Married (1) about 1615, as his second wife, John Tompson, gentleman, of Little Preston, Preston Capes, son of Thomas Tompson. Married (2) at Roxbury, Mass., before 30 May 1644, Robert Parke.
    
       Carolingians: Alice Freeman.
    
       Visitation: Alice Freeman, ux. John Tomson of Preston Capes, Northamptonshire.