George Alcock's birthdate!

Tagging the profile Dea. George Alcock

John Albert Rigali you had notated the 1586 birth date in the profile, I believe, and his wife Anne Hooker has a 1586 birthdate

I think that I got George's date and place of birth (March 25, 1581 at Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England) from his Ancestral File Number (AFN) record when I first added him to my personal database about TWO DECADES ago.

Since George is being discussed, does anyone suppose that Dea. George Alcock is the same George?

Who is Dorothy Chester ?

We should look him up in the Great Migration and conform Geni to Anderson

I figured that one out - Dorothy Geni stole her sister's husband ! In other words an error. George is now merged. On to lookups to ensure Anderson supports the proposed birth date.

... And he does not, estimates 1605. I find it hard to support for this reason:

"Education: matriculated sizar from St Johns College, Cambridge, Michaelmas 1622, but did not take a degree."

https://media.geni.com/p13/9a/fc/f9/fb/53444845f0f4f8d2/img_0881_la...

- "usual" age of matriculation in college in those days was 15 - 18 years old. They did not have adult education
- "sizar" is a scholarship student, they lived in and worked in the dining hall etc.

The 4 page great migration article is available on the "media" tab. We should look at his wife's birth date better.

There is no birth date for his first wife, in fact her name of Anne is uncertain. Two children only, Samuel and John. Brother Thomas. Parents not defined.

See https://media.geni.com/p13/31/29/83/a4/53444845f0f4f8d4/img_0883_la...

Need more recent / peer reviewed / published evidence to go against a Great Migration article for the Geni tree, I think.

So my next step is to look at the parents.

The parents are plausible and sourced. Brother Thomas and sister Elizabeth named in his will, also brothers Carwirthy And Hooker; the latter his 1st wife's brother, the former could be sister's husband or could be another configuration. Two children only, John and Samuel. There is no support for daughter Ann b abt 1617 married Foster except name coincidence that I can see, although they could be from the same extended family.

In other words: George Alcock was attending college as a scholarship student in 1622. That is non will evidence for a birthdate of about 1605. There is not a way for a sizar to have been a married man at Cambridge in 1622.

https://www.british-genealogy.com/archive/index.php/t-25472.html concluded that Grace Carwithy was probably not an Alcock. Detaching.

https://archive.org/stream/alumnicantabrigipt1vol1univiala#page/10/... should show his university matriculation