Elizabeth (Gregory) Alcock (1724 - 1796)

Born 1724 in Bridges Creek, Westmoreland, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Henry Willis Jr. — married 30 Apr 1742 in Spotsylvania, Virginia

Wife of Thomas Walker II — married 14 Jan 1781 in Albemarle, Virginia, United States

Wife of Weston Alcock — married 9 Feb 1796 in Louisa, Virginia, United States

Died Sep 1796 at about age 72 in Albemarle, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Birth

Elizabeth was born about 1723. Elizabeth Gregory ...

Elizabeth was born about 1720. She was the daughter of Roger Gregory and Mildred Washington. She passed away in 1805. ^[1]

Elizabeth, the daughter of Roger and Mildred Gregory married four times.

First, she married Henry Willis on 30 Apr 1742^[2] or perhaps on 29 Apr 1743 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia^[3]

Second, she married Reuben Thornton, the son of Francis Thornton. They had no children.

Third, she married Dr. Thomas Walker.

Her fourth husband was "Dr. Alcock, of the British Army."

[The snippet shows Weston Alcock... I have Thomas W. Alcock in my files. cls .]^[4]

Death

Her will was probated in September 1796, originally written in 1795. Her death date would be sometime in 1796.

Will

Will of Elizabeth Walker. Albemarle Co., VA, WB 3, p. 295, w. 23 Jul 1795, p. Sep Court 1796.

relict of Dr. Thomas Walker

Weston Alcock of Castle Hill in the said county [Albemarle]

Exr: Weston Alcock

Wit: Charles Merewether, Edward (Ferneyhough?), T. (Divers?)

Research Notes

The following passage with note (*) is from an article in William and Mary Quarterly:^[5]

"After his [Henry Willis's] death without issue, she married Reuben Thornton. After Thornton's death she married Dr. Alcock, and after Alcock's death she married Dr. Thomas Walker, the explorer.*

* It is generally said that Elizabeth Gregory after Walker's death married Alcock, but this can't be as the will of Elizabeth Walker, "relict of Dr. Thomas Walker, of Albermarle county," was proved there in 1796, and to Weston Alcock, of Castle Hill, she gave her whole estate.

Sources

• The Cabells and Their Kin, A Memorial Volume of History, Biography, and Genealogy – Alexander Brown, p. 450. https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=BAo7AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA414

1. ↑ Unsourced family tree handed down to Jonathan Reed.
2. ↑ William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, "Willis Family," Vol 6, No 4 - April 1898, pages 206-214.JSTOR
3. ↑ Title: Virginia County Records SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY 1721-1800 Page 85 Will Book F, Marriage Licenses 1743, April 29, Henry Willis and Eliza. Gregory.
4. ↑ Dodd, Jordan, Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1660-1800 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997), Ancestry.com, Record for Weston Alcock.
5. ↑ William and Mary College Quarterly, Willis Family Continued from Vol. V, pp. 24, 171; Vol. VI, p. 27. Accessed 2016 August 30 by amb

• Source: S-2072910221 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. (Removed dead links to family trees.)
• book: "Colonel Joshua Fry", p. 75
• Thornton 1300-1917 by Mrs. Lola Jane Carr-Bates.

Entered by Greg Rose, direct descendant of Francis Thornton I. FamilyTreeDNA #356330. Member of the Thornton Project on FamilyTreeDNA, #356330.