Yes I agree that Alice is perilously perched on the very edge of
motherhood if she is to be the daughter of Elizabeth Thimelby.
The boundary is set by
A) Thomas Welby of Moulton married Elizabeth Thimelby 20 Jul 1560
B) Alice was already a "Mrs Tash, widow" when she married Anthony Irby
on 22 Dec 1575
C) They had a child in 1576 or 1577 (two sources are conflicting here)
That Alice is a Welby, and is a daughter of a Thomas Welby of Moulton,
esq cannot be questioned. This is because her own son, states this on
his own MI, or rather the MI was probably put up by Alice's grandson.
But at any rate, that seems the least likely to be in error here.
Anthony Irby's birthrange is wide-open, I know nothing useful to pin
it down. His father Thomas was buried at Whaplode 30 Apr 1561.
Anthony had at least five (not four) sisters and he himself had a son
born in 1576 or 1577.
As for Alice Welbye, if we believe A) above then we also have to face
that Jane (Welby) Ayscough is stated as being bap 26 May 1561 at
Moulton. Alice here is forced to be baptised in 1562, Thomas in 1563
and Richard in 1564 which seems barely possible. And then Alice
married by age 13, widowed, married again and a mother at least once
if not twice by 1577.
My gut feeling is that there is something wrong with "Who are the
parents of Thomas Welby who married Elizabeth Thimelby". Alice is
more likely to be his sister, and both the children of somebody also
named Thomas Welby of Moulton.
Will Johnson
|
