Alice Wilbore

Biography

Donovan Faust (Foust). A Family History: The Ancestors of Thomas Wilson Faust. (1997).

"Thomas Wilbore was born in the West Riding section of Yorkshire in 1482. He was just a year old when a series of coups and killings began which rocked the English monarchy. Richard of Gloucester deposed Edward V to become Richard III; Edward and his brother were later murdered in the Tower of London; two years later, Henry Tudor, the Earl of Richmond, defeated and killed Richard III at the battle of Bosworth and became Henry VII, first of the Tudor monarchs.

Sometime before 1519, Thomas married a woman named Alice; who was from Colchester, Essex. He left the rocky hills and relatively poor soils of western Yorkshire to live at Halford in her home county of Essex where the land was immeasurably better. The couple's first child was born there, after which they moved to her birthplace of Colchester where two more children were added. He died there at age 82.

Thomas Wilbore lived during a time when European countries began staking out positions in the Americas. During the fifty years after Christopher Columbus discovered the West Indies and claimed them for Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, several other historic expeditions occurred. Other Spaniards also were active: Ponce de Leon explored Florida in 1513; Hernan Cortes conquered Mexico in 1521; and Hernando do Soto discovered the Mississippi in 1541. Other countries, too, had their adventurers: Pedro Cabral claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500; John Cabot carried the English flag to the Canadian maritime provinces in 1497; and Frenchman Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River in 1535 to establish a position there for France.

About a hundred years later, Thomas Wilbore's great grandson Samual Wilbore crossed the same waters the explorers had sailed to make a new home in North America."

Children

1. Nicholas (Wilbor) Wilber b: ABT 1504 in Colchester, Essex Co, England
2. John (Wilbor) Wilber Jr b: ABT 1508 in Colchester, Essex, England
3. Joan (Wilbor) Wilber b: ABT 1512 in Coggeshall, Essex, England

References

• 3. The English Ancestry Of Samuel Wilbore, Of Boston, And William Wilbore, Of Portsmouth, R. I. (Concluded) Volume Name 113. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) Page 94-95. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11596/94/23550716
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Thomas_Wilbore_%283%29