We’re perplexed by Alice, the wife of Charles Cale in King George County in the early 1700s. We believe she’s the daughter of our Edward Maddox because we know Edward had a daughter named Alice of the same approximate age and he gave 200 acres in King George County, Virginia, to Alice Cale in his 1694 will.
Today we discovered that Alice Cale was married to at least three men: (FNU) Watts, William Strothers, and Charles Cale, based on Westmoreland County deed 1:635, dated 5 December 1729. Of course records don’t provide her maiden name, so we have no way of corroborating her Maddox origins from that particular document. But her inheritance of 200 acres from Edward would otherwise lock it in. Sigh.
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Regarding Alice, daughter of Edward Maddox and Dorothy Holding, you overlooked something. Prior to 1752, the year was generally reckoned from March 25, not January 1. Edward and Dorothy were married on what was then New Year’s Day 1656, and Alice was born just over nine months *later*. They didn’t waste any time, but she was *not* born out of wedlock.
If you notice the parish register, the marriage is listed first, right at the beginning (by their reckoning) of 1656, and Alice’s christening is a number of lines *later*, near what they would have considered the *end* of the year.
This trips people up all the time, so don’t feel too bad about it.
Wow… great info, Bettina… thanks! That certainly clears up our questions about the situation.
…and I’m going to change the bio. Please let us know if you have any additional info on Edward and Dorothy, or their children.