Alice Savage

Alice Stafford

• Parents: Humphrey Stafford, Lucy Eyre
• Alice died after 1613.  Married John Savage of Casteton, died 1605 (mentioned in Ann Stafford's 1560 will: ". "To John Savage my son a yoke of my best oxen").  "the last of the Savage family was baptized at Castleton, 21st Nov 1639.".

Alice was the eldest of the 4 surviving daughters and co heirs of Humphrey Stafford, who died before 1558. She married John Savage, of Castleton, by whom she had seven sons and two daughters. She inherited lands in Eyam and elsewhere, which her grandson Humphry sold. Her husband died 1605. The family is believed to be now extinct. (nb there was plague at Eyam in the 1650's ...)

Her 9 children, baptized at Castleton parish, before 1605, were Eleanor, George, John, Jane, Humphrey (heir), Thomas, Francis, Robert, Anthony, Clara

Notes

"The [Stafford of Eyam] family accumulated vast wealth, and the hundreds of acres they owned included the townships of Eyam, Foolow, and the hamlet of Bretton, besides which they were lords and sole owners of the manors of Calver and Rowland. When the last male descendant, Humphrey, died in 1560, he left a fortune of nearly £1,000,000 to be divided at the death of his wife, Ann, between their four daughters - Alice, Gertrude, Katherine and Ann. Alice married John Savage, of Castleton; Gertrude was married to Rowland Eyre, of Hassop; Katherine became the wife of Rowland Morewood, of Bradfield; and Ann married Francis Bradshaw, of Bradshaw Hall, Derbyshire."

From 'General history: Gentry families of uncertain survival', Magna Britannia: volume 5: Derbyshire (1817), pp. CLIII-CLXVII. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50709&strquery=... Date accessed: 28 May 2013.

Stafford, of Eyam; temp. Hen. III.— Eliz. The heiress of Roland married into this family in the reign of Henry VI. The coheiresses of Humphry Stafford, the last heir male, married Savage of Castleton, Eyre of Hassop, Morewood, and Bradshaw. The immediate descendants of these coheiresses quartered the arms of Stafford of Eyam the same as those of Stafford of Botham. We have seen a seal of Stafford of Eyam in the collection of Mr. Wolley, of Matlock, with the following arms: — Ermine, on a bend, Gules, three roundles. (fn. 3)

From 'General history: Gentry families of uncertain survival', Magna Britannia: volume 5: Derbyshire (1817), pp. CLIII-CLXVII. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50709&strquery=... Date accessed: 28 May 2013.

Savage, of Castleton, a branch of the Cheshire family of that name. — Five generations are described in the Visitation of 1611. Henry Savage, who was then the representative, had two sons. A coheiress of Stafford, of Eyam, married into this family. Arms:— Argent, a pale fuzilly, Sable, a crescent for difference. Crest: — An unicorn's head, erased, Gules, charged with a crescent.

Named in the will of Roland Stafford, Proved on January 16, 1556/57 in Lichfield, England. He signed a will on October 18, 1556 in Eyam, Derbyshire, England. Will of Roland Stafford, of Eyam, Derbyshire, England. Dated 18 Oct: 1556. Proved 16th January, 1556-7, at Lichfield.

To be buried in the Parish Church at Eyam. Whereas my late brother Humfrey Stafford, by his will, bequeathed to his late wife Luce, my sister in law, all his lands etc. which should descend to his five daughters, Ales, Gartered, Anne, Katryn and Dorytye, until the youngest attains sixteen. He, my said brother, also gave his said, in his goods, and appointed her sole Executrix of his will. Whereas my sister, in her late widowhood, and by her will, bequeathed all her right to the above bequests, to me her brother-in-law, Rowland Stafford.

Named in the will of Ann Stafford, widow, Dated 5th June, 1560 and proved at Lichfield, 31st Aug., 1560:

The debts she names as owing are: "To the executors of Raffe Blackwall xiili Thos Mosslye iiij stryke wheat", and "These be ye dettes wch be owying to me Imprimis my Lord of Scroresburye for hay xijli John Wylkocson and Nycholas Wylson xxli "Admon to Richard Snape Rector of Morton for the use of Alice, Gertrude, Anne, and Catherine, daughters and heiresses of Humphry Stafford."
Alice daughter and co-heir, married John Savage, of Castleton, gent.; he died in 1605. His wife inherited from her father a large estate in Eyam. This property was sold by his grandson, Humphrey. The title, a general one is in possession of Mr. Benjamin Bagshaw, of Foolow, and bears date 11th April, 1613. It recites "that for the sum of £1013 6s., Humphrey Savage, Esq., of Nor Lees, Hathersage (grandson and heir of Ales Savage, formerly Ales Stafford, daughter and heiress of Humphrey Stafford, Esq., of Eyam), sold his lands in Eyam to Thomas Middleton, Clerk, Richard Furness, yeoman, and a few others. The last of the Savage family was baptized at Castleton, 21st Nov. 1639. Mr. Bateman made additions to the pedigree from the Castleton register.

Comments

from Re: Edward I Unbroken Female Descent to Staffords of Eyam post by Brad Verity 2005

"The latter website (On the Bradshaws and Staffords of Eyam with a Notice of the Old Hall by Peter Furness, Esq. This article was published originally in The Reliquary, Vol. 2, 1861-2; pp219-226. This transcription by Paul Bradford © 2001) seems especially well-researched. It debunks the theory that Alice Stafford, purported wife of gateway ancestor Capt. Anthony Savage (d. 1695), of Virginia (and mother of his dau Dorothy Savage, wife of William Strother), was dau of Humphrey Stafford of Eyam and Lucy Eyre of Holm Hall."
"I was excited thinking for a moment that Virginia-born Dorothy Savage was a direct female-line descendant of Edward I, but it just ain't the case."

Sources

1. The reliquary; A depository for precious relics-legendary, biographical and historical, Illustrative of the habits, customs and pursuits of our forefathers: Edited by Llewellynn Jewitt, Volume 2 (Google eBook) Llewellyn Jewitt. John Russell Smith. Derby: Bemrose & sons, 1862. Page 222
2. The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist,: A Quarterly Journal ..., Volume 7. By Llewellyn Frederick William Jewitt, John Charles Cox, John Romilly Allen. Page 207. Pedigree of Savage, of Castleton.

Links

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• OTHER REFERENCES LIST THE PARENTAGE OF THE LISTED DAUGHTER, ALICE SAVAGE (m. FRANCIS THORNTON) AS ANOTHER ANTHONY SAVAGE & SARAH CONSTABLE
• 'Alice STAFFORD
• 'Born: 1610
• Father: Humphrey STAFFORD
• Mother: Lucy EYRE
• 'Married: Anthony SAVAGE
• Children:
  • 1. Alice SAVAGE
  • 2. Dorothy SAVAGE
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/STAFFORD2.htm#Alice STAFFORD2
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