Alice Hilliard

        ii. ALICE BRANDON was born about 1555 in London, England (Christened Saint Vedast Foster Lane, London, England). She died between 1611-1612 in Garlick Hill, London, England (Burial St James Garlickhithe Parish). She married Nicholas Hilliard, son of Richard Hilliard and Laurence Wall on 15 Jul 1576. He was born in 1547 in Exeter, Devon, Eng. He died on 07 Jan 1619.

Notes

From http://roots-and-boughs.com/Ernie's%20Lines/brandon.html

It's sometimes said Alice is either the niece or the grandniece of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. She is the subject of one of most appealing miniatures of her husband. Shortly after their marriage, they traveled to France in the entourage of Sir Amyas Paulet, the English ambassador. Hilliard, probably on Queen Elizabeth's orders, entered the service of François, duc d’Alençon. Although her husband may have returned at a later date, Alice was back in London by May 1578, when their first child, Daniel, was baptised. By 1579, the Hilliards lived in a house in Gutter Lane, off Cheapside in London, where Hilliard also had his studio. Hilliard does not seem to have been reliable in money matters. When Alice’s father died, he made no mention of his son-in-law or grandchildren in his will, instead stipulating that the allowance he left to Alice be administered by the Goldsmith’s Company. Although there was an Alice Hillyard buried at St. Margaret's Westminster on May 16, 1611, this was probably not Alice Brandon. Hilliard is known to have had a second wife and records show a Nicholas Hilliard marrying Susan Gysard at St. Mary at Hill on 3 Aug 1608, placing Alice's death before that date.

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Family

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=735833.0

Nicholas Hilliard married Alice BRANDON, 15 July 1576 St Vedast Foster Lane, Farringdon, London (City)

BAPTISMS;
St Vedast Foster Lane, Farringdon, London (City)
HILLIARD;
DANIELL, 16 May 1578
ELIZABETH, 4 Oct 1579
FRAUNCIS, 24 Dec 1580
LAWRENCE, 5 March 1581/82
LETTYS, 25 May 1583
PENELOPPE, 31 Oct 1586
ROBERTE, 30 March 1588
Father NICHOLAS

Nicholas Hilliard's known children were all baptised at St Vedast, Foster Lane, where he also married Alice Brandon: Marriage: 15th July 1576

Children:

Daniel – bap:16th May 1578

Elizabeth - bap: 4th Oct 1579

Francis - bap: 24th Dec 1580

Lawrence - bap: 5th march 1581/2 (possibly only surviving child, as only child mentioned in Nicholas's will.)

Lettice - bap: 25th May 1583

Stillborn child buried 27th Dec 1584

Penelope - bap: 31st Oct 1586

Robert - bap: 30th March 1588

1. https://archive.org/details/registersofstved30stve/page/134 - burial of stillborn child (marriages are also in this volume.)
2. https://archive.org/details/registersofstved29stve/page/10/ - baptisms, starting with Daniel.

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• 'Introduction: The Chamber in the sixteeth century', in Chamber Accounts of the Sixteenth Century London Record Society, 20, ed. Betty R Masters (London, 1984), pp. xxxii-xxxviii http://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-record-soc/vol20/xxxii-xxxviii [accessed 10 June 2015].
• Registers of St. Vedast, Foster Lane, London - Marriages The Publications of the Harleian Society: Registers.  Page 4.  "Nicholas Hilliard and Alice Brandon were married the xvth day of July 1576."