Alice (Hopton) Morgan (1651 - aft. 1718)

Born 1651 in England

Ancestors

Wife of Nicholas Jones — married 17 Apr 1683 in Canon Frome, Herefordshire, England

Wife of James Morgan Bt — married 27 Oct 1695 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales

Died after 1718 after age 67 in Wales

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Biography

In 1666, she was named as "my daughter Alice Hopton" in the will of her father. ^[1]

Nicholas Jones married Alice Hopton at Canon Frome on 17 Apr 1683. ^[2] "Nicholas Jones of Abergevanney in the County of Monmouth Esq and Madame Alice Hopton, of the parish of Cannon Froome in the County of Hereforde, were married April 17th 1683". Their children baptised at Cannon Frome included:

• William (1684)
• Deborah (1685)
• Edward (1686)

After her first husband's death, she married James Morgan, Bt. Their marriage was recorded in the Catholic Register of Abergavenny which shows the marriage took place on 27 Oct 1695 "Jacobus Morgan, miles et Barrt. & Allicia Jones" (Catholic Record Society, Miscellanea XIV, London 1927, which records also show the death on 30 Apr 1718 of Sir James Morgan, Baronet).

Research Notes

It has been claimed that Alice Hopton was the mother of Edward Morgan, an immigrant ancestor of early American frontiersman Daniel Boone,^[3] but this has been disproved.^[4][5]

Since Edward Morgan of Gwynedd was already an adult in America well before 1695 (having already appeared on the Blackwell Rent Roll in the 1680's, and having children with recorded birthdates as early as 1691), the alleged father-son relationship between Sir James Morgan and Edward Morgan of Gwynedd is chronologically impossible.

Sources

1. ↑ Will of Sir Edward Hopton: "England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858"
   The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 327
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry au Record 5111 #739662 (accessed 7 June 2023)
   Will of Dñi Edwardi Hopton, granted probate on 8 Jun 1668. Died about 1668 in Comonstroome, Herefordshire, England.
2. ↑ Canon Frome, England (Parish); Hopton, Michael, 1838-1928 pg 4 Internet Archive
3. ↑ James Appleton Morgan, A History of the Family of Morgan from the Year 1089 to Present Times, New York: Self published, ca. 1902, p. 165 Internet Archive
4. ↑ Stewart Baldwin, "The Family of Edward Morgan of Pennsylvania: Daniel Boone's Maternal Kin" [part 1], The Genealogist, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Spring 2001): 104-28.
5. ↑ Stewart Baldwin, "The Family of Edward Morgan of Pennsylvania: Daniel Boone's Maternal Kin" [part 2], The Genealogist, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Fall 2001): 172-95.

See also:

• Complete Baronetage (Morgan of Llantarnam; names Alice, wife of Sir James Morgan, as daughter of Edward Hopton and Deborah Hatton and widow of Nicholas Jones)

• Google Groups, soc.genealogy.medieval, posting by Stewart Baldwin, 19 Jul 1998: "Edward Morgan of Gwynedd - his fake royal line" (cites Catholic records in Abergavenny for marriage of Sir James Morgan, Baronet to "Alicia" Jones)