Birth: January-March 1866 Benwell, Northumberland, UK
Father: Joseph King c1828-1883
Mother: Mary Learmouth 1828-1899
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: July-September 1935 Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, UK
Husband: Isaac Wardman 1864-1936
Death: January-March 1935 Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, UK
Alice Maude Wardman [Lake] 1892-1973
William Wardman 1894-1970
May Wardman [Collin] 1898-1972
Ivy Wardman [Thirlaway] 1902-1990
Joseph Leslie Wardman 1909-1976
Another four children died before1911
Birth of Alice King in FreeBMD in January-March 1866 in Newcastle T (10B 8).
In the 1871 census as Alice King aged 4, born in Benwell and living with her parents (Joseph and Mary), brother (James) and five sisters (Ann E, Elizabeth, Hannah, Jane, and Mary A) at Delaval Colliery, Benwell, Northumberland.
In the 1881 census as Alice King aged 16, single, born in Benwell, Northumberland, and a general servant boarding with William Fairley (aged 24, born in Newcastle On Tyne and a commercial clerk), his wife (Margaret aged 22 and born in Newcastle On Tyne) and son (John aged 2 and born in Newcastle On Tyne) at 26 Delival Terrace, Benwell, Northumberland.
Marriage of Alice King and Isaac Wardman in FreeBMD in July-September 1885 in Newcastle T (10B 140).
I cannot locate the family in the 1891 census.
In the 1901 census as Alice Wardman aged 35, born in N. Benwell, and living with her husband (Isaac), son (William) and two daughters (Alice M and Mary) in two rooms at 77 Violet Street, Benwell, Northumberland.
In the 1911 census as Alice Wardman aged 45, born in Delarral, Northumberland, married for 25 years with nine children four having died, and living with her husband (Isane), two sons (Joseph Leslie and William), and three daughters (Alice Maud, Joy and May) in four rooms at 67 Hugh Street, South Benwell, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland.
Two entries in Ancestry All Newcastle upon Tyne, England, Electoral Registers, 1741-1974 for Alice Wardman address 78 Hugh Street, Benwell in 1919 and 1921, other occupants Isaac Wardman (husband?), William Wardman (son?) in 1921, and Ivy Wardman (daughter?) in 1921.
In the 1921 census as Alice Wardman born in Northumberland in 1865 and living with Isaac Wardman (husband?), Joseph Leslie and William Wardman (sons?), and Ivy and May Wardman (daughters?) in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.
Eleven entries in Ancestry All Newcastle upon Tyne, England, Electoral Registers, 1741-1974 for Alice Wardman address 78 Hugh Street, Benwell from 1921 to 1934, other occupants Isaac Wardman (husband?), William Wardman (son?) to 1931, Ivy Wardman (daughter?) from 1930, and John Leslie Wardman (son?) in 1931.
Death of Abel (sic - on the original) Wardman in FreeBMD in January-March 1935 in aged 69 in Newcastle T (10B 12). This is the only reference to Abel Wardman.
There are thirty two entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Alice King.
Benwell in on the west side of Newcastle upon Tyne. Delaval Benwell Colliery, closed in 1901, is now the Durham Mining Museum.
Alice King was the mother of Ivy Wardman, wife of George Edward Thirlaway, second cousin of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of George William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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