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Alice Beauchamp, daughter of John and Alice (Freeman) Beauchamp, married John Doggett about 1644.
Will of Alice Freeman, Widow of Reigate, Surrey, PCC Bowyer, Quire 56, fols. 20-21(dated 13 Nov 1650, proved 5 Mar 1650/1): Names granddaughter Alice Dogett, as well as daughter Alice Beauchamp; John Beauchamp and wife Alice executors.
Will of John Beauchamp, of Reigate, Surrey, Esq., PCC Aylett, fol. 20-21 (dated 6 Jun 1653, proved 23 May 1655): Names daughter Alice Doggett and son-in-law John Doggett.
Parish Registers, St. Swithin London Stone Church, London (LDS Film No. 375020): List births/ christenings of seven children of John and Alice Doggett (listed as children of John Doggett, various spellings, but set in context of other records, these were also Alice’s children).
Anyone interested in this family should see “English Antecedents of The Rev. Benjamin Doggett” (http://www.doggettfam.org/England.htm), a well researched report. I will cite this source below as EA, for English Antecedents.
John Doggett, Alice’s husband, was the son of John Doggett, christened 24 Jul 1582, Groton, Suffolk, died 1653/4, Hamburg, Germany, and his wife Elizabeth Buchton of Hamburg, who died 1653 in Hamburg (EA: cites their wills, in both of which son John was named executor, and a Visitation pedigree of 1665 entered by son John). The elder John Doggett was a member of the Mercers Company of London and the Merchant Adventurers of England. Since John Beauchamp was also a merchant in the textile industry, it is not unlikely that he and the elder John Doggett knew each other, perhaps worked together, even before their children intermarried.
Alice’s husband John was born in Hamburg, Germany:
Will of John Dogett of London, Esquire, PCC Bath, fol. 360, PRO, National Archives UK (dated 26 Dec 1679, proved 6 Apr 1680): “to the poor orphants house at Hamborg, the place of my nativity.”
In 1665, John entered his pedigree in the Heralds Visitation of London, naming himself as the son of John Doggett, merchant of London, and his wife Elizabeth Buchton of Hamburg; naming his wife as Alice, daughter of John Beauchamp of London; naming as their children Beauchamp, John, Benjamin, Alice and Elizabeth Doggett (EA).
St. Swithin’s parish records list the following children:
Alise/Alice Dogett, christened 30 Dec 1645
Elizabeth Doget, christened 4 May 1649
John Doget, christened 16 Dec 1652, died 11 Nov 1654
Richard Doget, christened 16 Feb 1653, died 17 Feb 1654
John Doget, born 4 Jan 1656, christened 21 Jan 1656
Beauchamp Doget, born 13 Jun 1659, christened 6 Jul 1659
Benjamin Dogett, born 17 Dec 1663, christened 18 Dec 1663
John and Alice also had a second daughter Alice, born 1658 or after (bequest in her father’s will to be delivered at marriage or age 21). She apparently isn’t listed in the St. Swithin parish registers, but the records of the other children christened in the same church as Alice’s younger siblings indicates that John and Alice lived in or near Walbroke Ward, near her parents, possibly in the same house, since John and Alice Beauchamp also had a home in Surrey.
John Doggett, like his father, was a mercer and Merchant Adventurer to whom his brother-in-law Edmund Beauchamp was apprenticed and served for nine years:
Records of the Mercers Company of London:
Apprentice Index:
Edmund Beauchampe
Father: John Beauchampe, Citizen and Salter
Master: John Doggett, mercer and Merchant Adventurer
19 Mar 1746/7 for 8 years from next Lady Day
Member Index:
Edmund Beauchampe
Late apprentice to John Doggett now admitted into the freedom of this fellowship
9 May 1656
It’s possible that Edmund Beauchamp, who later named a son Doggett, lived with John and Alice in London, at least after his father died in 1655 (earlier if John Beauchamp retired earlier to Surrey).
John Doggett died in 1680, leaving a will (cited above) dated 26 Dec 1679, proved 6 Apr 1680, when administration was granted to his widow, Alice. He made bequests to “beloved wife” Alice (executrix) and to four surviving children: John, Benjamin and Alice (all unmarried) and Elizabeth Agher (Otgher); he named son-in-law Justus Agher overseer.
(Justus and Elizabeth are Otgher in her mother’s will, and he is Otgher in his own will.)
Alice was still living in 1697, when depositions were taken in a legal claim filed in the Court of the Exchequer by Sarah Beauchamp, widow of George Beauchamp, against Alice Doggett, Mary Wolsley and Sir Nicholas Miller, on grounds that George never received the legacy devised to him in his father’s will. These records name John Doggett (a reference to Alice’s late husband) as an Alderman, and they probably indicate that Alice and Mary were the last surviving children of John and Alice (Freeman) Beauchamp.
National Archives, UK, E 134, Records of the Exchequer: Records of the Kings Remembrancer, 9 Wm III (1697), Depositions in case of Sarah Beauchamp, relict and administratrix of George Beauchamp, vs. Allice Doggett, Mary Wolsley, Sir Nicholas Miller, Knt.: Last will and testament of John Beauchamp, heretofore of Rygate, father of said Geo Beauchamp (father of plaintiff's husband) and his estate, including the manor of Cockham and copyhold lands in the manor of Rygate: Customs of manor &c. Notts, Sussex, Surrey.
Alice died in 1703, leaving a will that names her as the widow of John Doggett of London, Esq., dated 28 Aug 1699 and proved 5 May 1703, when administration was granted to Justus Otgher, executor. According to EA, the will states that she was a resident of the Parish of St. Andrew, Holbourne, Middlesex, but I don’t see that in my copy of the will, unless it’s in the record of probate, written in Latin, which I haven’t tried to translate. Or perhaps the researchers who contributed to EA found a separate document filed with the will
Will of Alice Doggett, Widdow, PCC Dogg, Quire 127, fols. 31-32, PRO, National Archives UK (dated 28 Aug 1699, proved 5 May 1703):
Bequests to son-in-law Justus Otgher (executor) for himself and family; to daughter Alice Debary, wife of David Debary; to son John Doggett and his wife; to son Benjamin Doggett; to sister Mrs. Mary Woolsey; and to various grandchildren.
I am posting full transcriptions of John’s and Alice’s wills separately.
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