Alice Atwood

1574 - 1621  (47 years)

• Name	Alice Atwood  [1]
  Birth	Jan 1574	Middlesex, England
  Gender	Female
  Death	15 Mar 1621	Massachusetts, United States
  Person ID	I27089	footsteps
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Nicholas Atwood,   b. 20 May 1538, Surrey, England d. 10 May 1586, Hampshire, England (Age 47 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Alyse Olive Harman, Lady ,   b. 10 May 1548, Surrey, England d. 19 Nov 1603, Herefordshire, England (Age 55 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	30 Jan 1569	Middlesex, England
  Family ID	F7018	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Mullins,   b. 1578, Sussex, England d. 3 Mar 1621, Massachusetts, United States (Age 43 years)
  Marriage	1594	England, United Kingdom
  Children	+ 1. Priscilla Mullins,   b. 5 Feb 1602, Surrey, England d. 5 Feb 1688, Massachusetts, United States (Age 86 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F15169	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Little is known about Alice, the wife of William Mullins. She is named only once: in the 1621 will of her husband William Mullins. It is not known if she is the mother of all his children, some of his children, or none of them. There is no evidence she had the Atwood or Poretiers surnames claimed by some 19th and early 20th century authors. Recent research into her origins, undertaken by Caleb Johnson and Simon Neal, has focused on the Browne, Dendy, Gardinar, Hammon, and Wood families of Dorking and Holy Trinity, Guildford. In 2012 (Mayflower Quarterly, 78:44-57), Caleb Johnson published a speculative hypothesis that William Mullins may have married twice, first Elizabeth Wood, and second Alice, perhaps widow of either William or Thomas Browne (possibly making Alice the mother or aunt of Mayflower passenger Peter Browne). While the speculative hypothesis matches all the known facts, it is by no means proven. No additional evidence, supporting or disproving that hypothesis, has been published since that time.

  
  

• Sources

  [S37] Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775. Record for Robert Brent