On Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 11:53:10 PM UTC-7, lma...@att.net wrote: > There are about a dozen user submitted pedigrees on > Ancestry.com with David Winter (died 1767) and his wife > Alice (died 1783), residents of Tysoe, Warwickshire (England). > > I have searched the surrounding parish registers for their marriage, > without success. > A search in local wills has found Alice's parentage. > > The will of Richard Wilcox of Lower Tysoe, gentleman, proved > in 1742, mentions several of his children, and gave ten pounds > each to son in law David Winter and his wife, and to their five > children ten pounds each. > > Richard's widow, Alice Wilcox, left a will proved in 1743, which > mentions most of her husband's children, but makes it clear that > she was not their mother. > A grand daughter Alice Winter is briefly noted - > certainly this is an error, she was probably a god daughter. > > Richard Wilcox & Alice Bury had been married at nearby Whichford in 1719. > > The parish registers of Tysoe show that the mother of Richard > Wilcox's children was Miriam, who was buried in 1709. > Their daughter Alice was baptized 13 September 1700. > > Richard is mentioned in the wills of his father, Richard Wilcox of > Temple Tysoe, gentleman (proved 1673) and Ursula Wilcox of > Temple Tysoe, widow (proved 1680). > > Richard Wilcox, died 1673, was the eldest son of Ralph Wilcox of > Temple Tysoe gentleman, PCC will proved 1659. > > The 1600/1 marriage of Ralph Wilcockes & Margaret Appletree was > recorded at Tysoe & also at Banbury, Oxfordshire. > > Their son Richard was baptized at Tysoe 21 May 1604. > It is not certain as to how many of Ralph's children were by > Margaret, since her burial record is not found at Tysoe. > > The will of John Appletree of Dedington,co. Oxford, gentleman, > dated February 1615, mentions his brother in law Ralph Willcox. > > A pedigree of the Appletree family of Deddington, taken from the > 1634 Heralds Visitation of Oxfordshire, and published in Miscellanea > Genealogica et Heraldica, series 4, volume 5, pages 97,8, shows > Thomas Apletree, and his wife Jane, daughter of Robert Warner of > Radcliff co. Warwick, with several children, including a son John, > and a daughter Margaret wife of "ffrase" Willcocks of Tiso co. Warwick. > > One of the Heralds' Visitations for Warwickshire, available on archive.org, > records Robert Warner of Radcliff and his wife Dorothy Blencoe, with a daughter > Jane wife of Thomas Appletree. > > Leslie David Winter of Tysoe was probably the person of that name baptized at Adlestrop, Gloucestershire in July 1694. His son Thomas (PCC will proved 1798) lived at Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, about 5 miles from Adlestrop. Leslie