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 I27629 footsteps Last Modified 21 Apr 2025
Father Nicholas Atwood, Sir , 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 F7150 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family William Mullins, b. 1578, Sussex, England d. 3 Mar 1621, Massachusetts, United States (Age 43 years) Marriage 1594 England 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 F15392 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Apr 2025
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Birth - Jan 1574 - Middlesex, England 
Marriage - 1594 - England 
Death - 15 Mar 1621 - Massachusetts, United States = Link to Google Earth
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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.
- 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.
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Sources - [S84] Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775.
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- [S84] Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775.