Alice Lloyd

Died 1687 in Talbot, Maryland

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Register of Maryland's Heraldic Families contains MANY errors. If is two volumes that were published in 1935 and 1937 by the Colonial Dames and listed the claimed lineages of Maryland members. At that time, no evidence was required to prove those lineages, and many were just copied from each other, and are incorrect.

Just as the DAR today no longer accepts early membership lineages without documented proof, these early Colonial Dames lineages should be viewed the same way, and not accepted unless they can be verified through existing original records. Edward Lloyd did assign land to his "son-in-law" John Watkins in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. In that time period "son-in-law" was commonly used to mean "step-son", which is what John Watkins was. His mother Frances had secondly married Edward Lloyd after the death of his father, and this was land due John Jr. from his father's will. Edward Lloyd had only one child by any of his three marriages, and that was his son Philemon. See: http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/000800/000808/html/ndnbelloyd1.html

The members of the Colonial Dames who claimed that John Watkins, Jr.'s wife was Alice Lloyd, apparently took the record calling him "son-in-law" at face value, not realizing that at that time this meant "step-son" and then confused the name of Edward Lloyd's first wife Alice as also being the name of John Watkins wife. There are no known contemporary time period records where the given name of John Watkins' wife is listed. Both her given name and surname are unknown. She died before about 1683, as her son John Watkins (Jr./III) was the administrator of the estate of his father John Watkins (Jr./II).

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