Mrs. Alice Mullins

Little is known about Alice, the wife of William Mullins.  She is named only once: in the 1621 will of her husband William Mullins.  It is not known if she is the mother of all his children, some of his children, or none of them.  There is no evidence she had the Atwood or Poretiers surnames claimed by some 19th and early 20th century authors.

Recent research into her origins, undertaken by Caleb Johnson and Simon Neal, has focused on the Browne, Dendy, Gardinar, Hammon, and Wood families of Dorking and Holy Trinity, Guildford. In 2012 (Mayflower Quarterly, 78:44-57), Caleb Johnson published a speculative hypothesis that William Mullins may have married twice, first Elizabeth Wood, and second Alice, perhaps widow of either William or Thomas Browne (possibly making Alice the mother or aunt of Mayflower passenger Peter Browne). While the speculative hypothesis matches all the known facts, it is by no means proven. No additional evidence, supporting or disproving that hypothesis, has been published since that time.