Alice (Helder) Fletcher (abt. 1730 - 1755)

Born about 1730 in Wicken, Cambridgeshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of John Fletcher — married 10 May 1752 in Wicken, Cambridgeshire, England

Descendants

Died 1755 at about age 25 in Cambridgeshire, England

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Biography

Alice was one of probably four children of John Helder and Alice (Davy) Helder . She was born some time between 1724 (the date of her parents' marriage) and 1735 (the date of her mother's death). In a journal written by her father, mention is made of Alice being in a school in Ipswich. Alice married John Fletcher of Wicken by licence in 1752. Boyds Marriage Index by licence 9/6/1752. Bondsman John Chalice of Halifax, presser and packer. Place: Wicken or Burwell. She had one living child (Elizabeth Fletcher) to John, before dying early 1755. Her place of burial has not been established.

Sources

• Birth: Alice's father left the Anglican church to join the Independents, it may be that she and her siblings were not baptised in the local Church of England and therefore have yet to be published.

Schooling: Saunders, W. H. Bernard, Ed. Fenland Notes and Queries; A Quarterly Antiquarian Journal for the Fenland, Vol I. Geo C Caster, Peterborough, 1891. Available for down load at https://www.forgottenbooks.com/.../Fenland_Notes_Queries_1891_v1_1000768871.pdf

Marriage: Licences of the Archdeacon of Sudbury County (Cambridgeshire Records Office). Boyds Marriage Index by licence 9/6/1752.

Burial: "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JZZB-6MY : 24 December 2014), Alice Fletcher, burial 18 Feb 1755; citing England, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 887,382.