Lady Alice More

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Lady Alice More (Harpur)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: April 1551 (79-80)
London, Middlesex (now Greater London), England (United Kingdom)
Place of Burial: London, Middlesex (now Greater London), England
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir Richard Harpur, Kt., of Epping/Latton and Elizabeth Harpur
Wife of John Middleton, Merchant of the Staple of Calais and Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England and Saint
Mother of Thomas Middleton; John Middleton; Alice Allington and Helen Middleton
Sister of Sir George Harpur, Knight and Richard Harpur, III

Occupation: housekeeper
Managed by: Private User
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About Lady Alice More

family

Alice Harpur married only twice: 1. John Middleton, a London Mercer, a Merchant of the Staple of Calais who died in 1509 and was buried in the Church of St. Katherine Coleman. They had two children: i. Alice (d.1563) who married firstly, Thomas Elrington (d.1523), and secondly, Sir Giles Allington (d.1586). ii. Helen (d. circa 1510).

2. Sir Thomas More. At the time of her marriage to Sir Thomas More Alice was, of course, Alice MIddleton (not Harpur). They married at the Church of St. Stephen Walbrook in the Autumn of 1511. No issue. Dame/Lady Alice died in 1551.

sources

  • Martin Wood 18th November 2008. [Documentary evidence for the details given in the Pedigree may be found in his book “The Family and Descendants of St Thomas More”. Published in the UK by „Gracewing‟. April 2008. ISBN 978 0 85244 681 2.]
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Lady Alice More's Timeline

1471
1471
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England (United Kingdom)
1500
1500
Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
1500
Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
1501
1501
Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, England (United Kingdom)
1503
1503
London, England (United Kingdom)
1551
April 1551
Age 80
London, Middlesex (now Greater London), England (United Kingdom)
April 1551
Age 80
London Cemetery, London, Middlesex (now Greater London), England (United Kingdom)