Alice Emma (Bennett) Brown (1863 - 1959)

Born 24 Jan 1863 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom

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Died 23 Sep 1959 at age 96 in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Alice Emma Bennett was born on 24 January 1863, daughter of Emma Fernley (Lawton) Bennett (1838-1928) and John Wing Bennett (1834-1897).^[1] Alice was matron to King William's Boys College, Isle of Man before her marriage. In 1891 she was assistant mistress at her cousin Mary Louise Bennett’s school at 15 Steyne in Worthing.

She married Charles Frederick Brown a solicitor of 30 Waterloo Street, Birmingham. She was Fred’s second wife. [Jack Alexander] They were living in Aston in 1901. Charles died on 3 March 1938. She lived at 74 Wheeley’s Road, Edgbaston near Birmingham. Alice moved to 638 Streetbrook Road, Solihull in 1942, and died there on 23 September 1959, aged 96. Her will probated at Birmingham in 1960, left sums to a number of nephews and nieces and sisters. Those on the Bennett side included: daughters of nephew John Howard Chalk and his wife Rowena Jane, niece Debora Baumanis, neice Elizabeth Clare Sanders, Enid wife of nephew Hugh Alexander, nephew John Alexander and his wife Isabel, cousin Grace Baker, friends Dorothy Warner and Frances Warner.

Sources

1. ↑ "England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGDK-LQ4Y : 14 September 2022), Alice Emma, 25 Feb 1863; from parish registers of the Church of England, database and images, citing Baptism, , Warwick County Record Office, England.