Margery HOLMSTEAD [2815]

  General Notes:

The Visitations of Bedfordshire for 1566 1582 and 1636 say;- (Dorothy) daughter and coheire of (Henry) Hampstead of Halsted co. Essex by the dau'r of Sergeant Benlosse. Sab. 3 chevalls' heads erased, bitts, raines, and tassel arg., a canton erm.
No mention of her or her name in William Allstons Will.

In a pedigree recorded in the Bedfordshire Visitation William Alston is said to have married Dorothy daughter and coheir of Henry Hampstead of Halstead co Essex. Cresswell in Alstonia concludes this incorrect based on the inquisition postmortem of Thomas Alston Jnr of Edwardstone (nephew of William) by its recitation of the inheritence by the deceased Thomas from his mother Dorothy Homestead of the moeity (half) of the Rectory and Vicarage of Gt Maplestead.

  Research Notes:

Named as Elizabeth Hamstead/Henstead in IGI,

Essex Record Office 13.2.07: Tom Perrett checked Boyd's Marriage Index
MALES A - K, 1538-1600
1574 ALSTON Will & Mgy Coubrege at Colechester Mary (at the?) Walls

Margery married William ALSTON of Siam Hall and Sible Hedingham ESS [2813] [MRIN: 921], son of Edward ALSTON Lord of Sayham [2795] and Elizabeth COLMAN [2810]. (William ALSTON of Siam Hall and Sible Hedingham ESS [2813] was born about 1537 in Newton SFK, died on 9 Jan 1617/18 and was buried on 13 Jan 1617/18 in Newton Nr Sudbury SFK.)