Alse (Grantham) Emery (abt. 1600 - bef. 1647)

Born about 1600 in West Dean, Wiltshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of John Emery — married 26 Jun 1620 in Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England

Descendants

Died before 1647 before about age 47 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

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Disputed Information

Different unsourced birth and death dates and locations, conflicting with below-cited Anderson links, exist on Find A Grave and other secondary sources

Biography

Little is known about Alse Grantham; according to RC Anderson in Great Migration, “she is not seen in any New England record…”^[1]

Alse Grantam was the daughter of Walter and Elinor Grantam of West Dean. She is the “quite probable” wife of John Emery, married on 26 June 1620 in Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England, based on Frederick J. Nicholson research published in The American Genealogist.^[2][3]

Nicholson's argument supporting the identification:

1. Walter Grantam's will: the date of the will and the mention of the one grandchild Alice, coincides with the timing of the marriage and the probably age of their first child Alice, who would have likely the only child born by that date.
2. Their first child recorded in Romsey was Elenor ("Helena" in the baptism), the name of Alice Grantam's mother
3. The chronology and geography are compatible

Based on an estimated age of 20 at marriage, Alse would have been born in about 1600. There is a baptism for Alse Graunton, daughter of Walter 13 June 1591 at West Dean, Wiltshire, England,^[4] which is possible, but would make her about 7 years older than her husband.

Alse died before 1647, if not earlier, as her husband remarried on 29 October 1647.^[1]

Children

1. Alice b say 1622; m John Chater; birth estimated based on the 5 February 1622/3 probating of Walter Grantham’s will.^[5]
2. Eleanor bp 7 November 1624; m John Bailey
3. John bp 3 February 1628/9; m Mary ____
4. Anne bp 8 March 1632/3; m James Ordway

Research Notes

1. Some information on the previous version of this profile was taken from unsourced and doubtful data from Find-A-Grave site. Specific, unsourced death information 26 Apr 1646 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, Find A Grave: Memorial #37053521.
2. Speculative secondary sources exist.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Anderson The Great Migration Vol II C-F (2001): Page 448. Subscription$
2. ↑ Nicholson, Frederick J. "Alice Grant(h)am, Probable Wife of John¹ Emery of Newbury, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus,1990), Vol 65, Pages 211-3 Subscription$
3. ↑ Wiltshire Church of England Parish Registers, Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England Online at: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61187/images/45582_263021009496_1061-00053?clickref=1100ldMVKwLR%2C1100ldMVKwLR&adref=&o_xid=01011l4xx5&o_lid=01011l4xx5&o_sch=Affiliate%2BExternal&pId=902309774
4. ↑ Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre; Chippenham, Wiltshire, England; Wiltshire Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: 3712/6, Copy of the Earliest Registers of West Dean made 1869, Page 33, in Ancestry.com database Wiltshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 Image
5. ↑ Anderson The Great Migration Vol II C-F (2001): Page 449. Subscription$

• The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001. Pages 448-9. Subscription$