Alice (Unknown) Lewis (1872)

Born 1872 in Brewood, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

Wife of William Lewis — married 25 Nov 1893 in Tong, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom

Descendants

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Biography

William Lewis and Alice Bowen were married in Tong, Shropshire, on 25th November 1893^[1]. They were bachelor and spinster and both living in Tong at the time. William was 26, a waggoner and the son of William Lewis who was also a waggoner. Alice was 19 and the daughter of Richard Edward Bowen who was a labourer^[2].

Census

1901 Residence: Beacon Farm Cottage, Great Barr, Staffordshire^[3]

William Lewis, head, mar, 33, waggoner on farm, born in Oxford, Oxon

Alice Lewis, wife, mar, 31, born in Brewood, Staffs

Reginald G W Lewis, son, 4, born in Grindle, Salop

Dora A Lewis, dau, 2, born in Grindle, Salop

Alice E Lewis, dau, 1, born in Great Barr, Staffs

1911 Residence: 44 Oxford Street, Pleck, Walsall, Staffordshire^[4][5]

William Lewis, husband, 42, mar, waggoner on farm, born in Shropshire

Alice Lewis, wife, 39, married 23 years with 11 children born alive to the marriage of whom 7 were still living, born in Staffordshire

Reginald Lewis, son,16, single, gil carter, born in Shropshire

Dora Lewis, dau, 14, school, born in Shropshire

Nelly Lewis, dau, 13, school, born in Shropshire

William Lewis, son, 9, school, born in Staffordshire

Florance Lewis, dau, 6, school, born in Staffordshire

Emely Lewis, dau, 3, born in Staffordshire

Ethel Lewis, dau, 2, born in Staffordshire

Maria Lancaster, boarder, 61, widow, born in Staffordshire

George Dyke, boarder, 59, married, plate layer, born in Staffordshire

Research Notes

There is a marriage of a William Lewis to Alice Bowen in Tong, Shropshire on 25 Nov 1893. Whilst this doesn't match with the number of years Alice said she had been married in the 1911 census, it does make more sense for the dob of their first child which appears to have been in 1896. Otherwise there would have been a gap of 8 years between marriage and first child.

Sources

1. ↑ Register of Marriages, General Register Office of England and Wales, GRO Reference: 1893 D Quarter in Shifnal Volume 6a Page 1225 https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl
2. ↑ Tong Marriage Register, Shropshire Archives, Archive Reference P281/A/3/3 Link to Marriage Register image on Findmypast.co.uk
3. ↑ Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives, ED 4 Class: RG13; Piece: 2705; Folio: 71; Page: 16 [Link to census image on Ancestry]
4. ↑ Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA) Series RG14, Reg District 370 Reg Sub-District 3 ED 27 Schedule Number 225 [Link to census image on Ancestry]
5. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWW7-62P), William Lewis, Walsall St Matthew, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1911 England and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 14, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.