Alice (Willoughby) Sewell (abt. 1608 - 1644)

Born about 1608 in King's Stanley, Gloucestershire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Henry (Sewell) Seawell — married 1631 in Sewells Point, Virginia Colony, North America

Descendants

Died 20 Feb 1644 at about age 36 in Sewells Point, Norfolk, Virginia

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Biography

Alice was born in Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire, England about 1608.^[1][2]

Henry Sewell, an Englishman who arrived in Virginia sometime prior to 1632, married Alice Willoughby, daughter of Thomas Willoughby, a prominent magistrate.^[3] Willoughby Spit and Sewell's Point in Norfolk, Virginia are named after her family members.^[4][5]

Henry Sewell and Alice Willoughby settled at Sewell's Point, Virginia (now known as Norfolk Naval Base) in 1626-1632. She died in 1644.^[2] (From court records, held Feb. 20, 1644 at the home of Ensign Thomas Lambert) Worley Levi Sewell Sr. lists 3 children, Henry II, Anne anwd Henry the Younger (d.s.p. in England).

Records reflect that Henry Sewell and his wife died before the Indian uprising of 1644 and were both buried in the church chancel of the Elizabeth River Parish in Norfolk (which is now the Naval Air Base).^[2]

Alice's Relatives

Alice's niece Elizabeth (daughter of her brother Thomas) married Isaac Allerton II. Their daughter, Sarah Allerton, married Hancock Lee. The daughter of Sarah and Hancock, Elizabeth Lee, married Zachary Taylor Sr. and they were the grandparents of U. S. President General Zachary Taylor.

Redfern Weems married Elizabeth Pritchett, also a descendant of Zachary Taylor and Elizabeth Lee.^[6]

Lord Middleton's family spring from Sir William de Willoughby, Lord of Willoughby, county Lincoln, in the reign of Edward I. Shirley's Noble and Gentle Men. In a genealogy of the family drawn up by temp. Elizabeth, Sir John de Willoughby, a Norman knight, is said to have held that estate by gift of William the Conqueror. In 554. Henry III. Sir William de Willoughby went to the Holy Land with Prince Edward. Ext. Peerage.

Sources

1. ↑ Location from an Ancestry database record (sources cited were for member-submitted family tree and Yates Publishing publication, which includes records "extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases"); see Changes for more information about Ancestry citations.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Find a Grave Index for Alice Willoughby Sewall.
3. ↑ Warfield, Joshua Dorsey. 1905. The founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland. A genealogical and biographical review from wills, deeds and church records At Archive.org
4. ↑ Sewell's Point.
5. ↑ Willoughby Split.
6. ↑ A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom, endeavored by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., F.S.A.

See also:

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=3257731&id=I95642
• John B. Sewell, CD, Sewell family information.
• Worley Levi Sewell Senior, History of the Sewell Families in America (Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, AL, Privately Printed in 1955, Stuart Daily News, Inc., Stuart, Florida).
• Ancestry .com: file # 1185850.
• Mark Anthony Lower, M.A., F.S.A., A Dictionary of the Family Names of theUnited Kingdom, page: 384. Lord Middleton's family spring from Sir William de Willoughby, Lord of Willoughby, county Lincoln, in the reign of Edward I. Shirley's Noble and Gentle Men. In a genealogy of the family drawn up by temp. Elizabeth, Sir John de Willoughby, a Norman knight, is said to have held that estate by gift of William the Conqueror. In 554. Henry III. Sir William de Willoughby went to the Holy Land with Prince Edward. Ext. Peerage.
• R. Wayne Sewell, Email: Wayne Sewell to Charles E. Sewell, 28 Jan 2009 (copy in personal files, rwsewell@@yahoo.com)

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