Birth: July-September 1866 Churt, Surrey, UK
Father: Henry Matthews 1838-1914
Mother: Clara Croucher 1841-1927
Christening: 2 September 1866 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham. Surrey, UK
Marriage: 7 December 1891 St Jude, Kensal Green, London, UK
Husband: Richard Lane Hedges 1841-1907
Death: After 1921
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Birth of Alice Matthews in FreeBMD in July-September 1866 in Farnham (2A 94).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Alice Matthews baptised 2 September 1866 in Frensham, Surrey, parents Henry and Clara Mathews.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1923 for Alice Matthews baptised 2 September 1866 at St Mary, Frensham, parents Henry and Maria (sic) Matthews, "Page 78 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Frensham in the County of Surrey in the Year 1866 [...] 1866 Septr 2 No. 624 Alice [parents] Henry [a] Labourer & Clara Matthews [of] Churt.
Her sister was registered in October-December 1867 in Farnham and baptised on 22 December 1867 at St Mary the Virgin, Frensham.
Her first brother was registered in April-June 1869 in Farnham and baptised on 23 May 1869, and second brother born 23 September 1870, registered in October-December 1870 in Farnham and baptised 6 November 1870, both at St St John the Evangelist, Churt.
In the 1871 census as Alice Matthews aged 4, born in Churton (sic - in the index, Churt on the original)), Surrey, and living with her parents (Henry and Clara), two brothers (Albert and William and sister (Rose) at an unnamed address two houses from the Crossways P.H., and next door to Charlotte Croucher (her grandmother) so this must be Squirrels/Hale House.
Her two brothers were born 14 July 1872 and baptised on 11 August 1872, and born 30 March 1875 and baptised 2 May 1875, and her sister was born 27 May 1877 and baptised on 8 July 1877, all births at Squirrels/Hale House, Churt, and baptisms at St John the Evangelist, Churt.
In the 1881 census as Alice Matthews aged 15, born in Churt, Surrey, and a domestic kitchen maid living with Robert Parker (aged 71, born in Headley, Hampshire, widowed, and a farmer of 250 acres employing 9 men & 2 boys), his daughter (Alice aged 26, born in Headley, Hampshire, single and a farmer's daughter), his neice (Louisa Piper aged 43, born in Headley, Hampshire, singe and a domestic housekeeper), a visitor (Sarah Pearce aged 28, born in Portsea, Hampshire, single and a solicitor's daughter), and another servant (Grace Shrub aged 19, born in Headley, Hampshire, single and a domestic housemaid) at Wishanger, Headley, Hampshire.
In the 1891 census as Alice Matthews aged 26, born in Churt, Surrey, and a servant living with Samuel B Bristowe (aged 68, born in Besthorpe, Nottinghamshire and a county court judge), his wife (Albertina E E aged 55 and born in Paris, France), his son (Albert W aged 32, born in London, single and occupied abroad), two daughters (Edith C aged 31 and Amelia M aged 23, both born in London and single), and five other servants (Helen Woolland aged 36 and born in Linton, Kent, Sarah Fry aged 35 and born in Hornchurch, Essex, Susanna Thompson aged 16 and born in Marylebone, James Meskinge aged 18 and born in Bury St Edmunds, and Gerturde A Clements aged 21 and born in Wickford, Nottinghamshire) at 65 Ennismore Gardens, St Margaret and St John the Evangelist, Westminster, London.
Marriage of Alice Matthews and Richard Lane Hedges in FreeBMD in October-December 1891 in Chelsea (1A 750).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938 for the marriage of Alice Matthew (sic) and Richard Lane Hedges on 7 December 1891 at Saint Jude, Kensal Green, Lancefield Street, Westminster. "Page 142 1891 Marriage solemnized at St Jude's Church in the Parish of Kensal Green in the County of London. [No.] 283 Dec 7th 1891 Richard Lane Hedges [of] Full [age] [a] Bachelor [and] Butler [of] 198 Ashmore Road [father] John Hedges (deceased) [a] Coachman, [and] Alice Matthews [of] Full [age] [a] Spinster [of] 198 Ashmore Road [father] Henry Matthews [a] Foreman. Married in the St Jude's Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies ofthe Established Church after Banns [...] in the Presence of us, Elijah Drumming [and] Agnes Hedges".
In the 1901 census as Alice Hedges aged 26, born in Churton (sic - in the index, Churt on the original), Surrey, and living with her husband (Richard) in two rooms at 7 Sutherland Terrace, Belgrave, St George Hanover Square, London. Three other famillies were living at the same address.
Her husband was cremated in April 1907 in Kensington and Chelsea.
In the 1911 census as Alice Hedges aged 45, widowed, no children, a dressmaker working on her own account at home, and living in two rooms at 31 Gertrude Street, Chelsea S W, London.
In the 1921 census as Alice Hedges born in Surrey in 1868 and living with Hugh Humphrey (born in Mallwyd, Merionethshire, Wales in 1857 and I believe her sister Rose's husband), Louisa Sellwood (born in Charlton, Wiltshire in 1868), and Catherine Louisa Forbes (born in Falkirk, Linlithgowshire (West Lothian), Scotland in 1845) in St George's Hanover Square, London, Middlesex.
There are thirty five entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Alice Matthews.
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