Yes, to be or not to be counted amongst the descendants of Alice Tempest (1520-1588) seems to be a question of the moment. Given the distinct possibility that Henry Strickland's parents were Luke Strickland and his wife Delilah Wood, that would sort of clearly make us direct descendants of William (1530-1590), the son of Alice Tempest, who married her second husband Walter Strickland (1516-1569) in 1561. Although nobody really knows how reliable are these various documents, the experts probably know, the DNA talks.
Henry Strickland was my great-grandfather, and he was descended from Matthew Strickland, who had immigrated to America in 1680 and lived and died in the state of Virginia.
Henry Strickland married Ida May, who was not really a Bell, a different story, but anyway, not much is known about her parents who died young, she was raised by her grandmother.
My grandmother was Methodist, which has some sympathetic connection to the Church of England, although I don't quite see how that works. So, and the point of your question was?
