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Alice Gertrude FINNISS

Alice Gertrude FINNISS

Female 1897 - 1973  (75 years)    Has 4 ancestors and 4 descendants in this family tree.


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  • Name Alice Gertrude FINNISS 
    Relationshipwith Teresa Ann GOATHAM
    Born 4 Nov 1897  Tenterden, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • GRO ref: Finniss, Alice Gertrude q4 1897 Tenterden RD 2a 801; GRO online index does not show a mother's maiden name (suggesting illegitimate)
      Actual date and month from baptism register, actual place from 1901 census. But the baptism register shows the year as 1895 - was it then or 1897 when the birth was registered? I think the latter more likely, and this is the year shown in the birth register entry (GRO copy). The census is little help, she would have been aged 3 if born in 1897, 5 if born 1895 - the 1901 census shows her age as 4!
      The age given at marriage is clearly a pretence (her birth cannot have been registered before she was born!), a pretence she maintained in the 1921 census (she had gone from claiming to be being aged 20 at marriage in April 1920, to 21 yrs 7 mths in June 1921).
      Birth registration (GRO register entry) has no significant additional info. - no father named.
    Birth registration of Alice Gertrude FINNIS(S)
    Birth registration of Alice Gertrude FINNIS(S)
    Daughter - step or biological uncertain - of a Goatham, briefly known by the surname herself.
    (GRO register entry)
    Baptised 16 Aug 1908  St. Mary’s Church, Chatham, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • From PR entry (imageon CityArk,viewed 1 Jan 2016)
      "Alleged Date of Birth: Novr 4th 1895, Baptised: August 16, No. 178, Alice Gertrude Dr of, parents: Arthur Charles & Annie, Goatham, abode: 2 Bryant Street, [father's occupation left blank], ceremony performed by E. G. Burr"
    Gender Female 
    Also known as Alice Gertrude GOATHAM 
    Residence 1971  40, Lomond Crescent, Falkland, Fife, Scotland See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • At the time her sister Annie wrote her will.
    Died 1973  Auchtermuchty Reg Dist, Fife, Scotland See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • A beneficiary named in her sister Annie Goatham's will, written 3 June 1971
      Death index on Scotland's People shows an Alice DALL, aged 75 died in 1973 in Auchtermuchty RD, ref: 418/ 61.
      Probably this death as the only one of an Alice Dall of the right age found in index on Scotland's People website, though doesn't include her middle name (and too early to have her maiden name). Falkland (where Alice was living in 1971) is only 3.3 miles from Auchtermuchty, probably in the RD (and / or Alice may have died in hospital in Auchtermuchty).
    Half-siblings 1 half brother and 3 half sisters (family of Arthur Charles GOATHAM and Annie FINNISS
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    [ - ? - ],   d. Yes, date unknown  (Father) 
    Harriett Mary BLACKMAN,   b. Abt 1848, Tenterden, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location,   d. Sep Q 1919, Tenterden Reg Dist, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 71 years)  (Grandmother) 
    Person ID I1884  All | England: Kent Group (in Go(a)tham One-Name Study), England: Kent Group - subjects of Go(a)tham One-Name Study, All in the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study , All subjects of the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study
    Last Modified 14 Nov 2024 

    Father [ - ? - ],   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Annie FINNISS,   b. Dec Q 1876, Tenterden, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Mar 1909, 3, Bryant Street, Chatham, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 33 years)
    Other Partners: Arthur Charles GOATHAM  m. 19 Jun 1898  
    Married Abt 1897 
    Married? Not married or evidence to suggest they didn't marry 
    Family ID F302391  Family Group Page  |  Family Chart

    Family Robert Gould DALL,   b. 8 Aug 1901, Eden Valley Square, Frenchie, Fife, Scotland See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1960, Dunbarney and Dron Reg Dist, Scotland See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location  (Age 58 years) 
    Married 2 Apr 1920  Horsemarket, Falkland, Fife, Scotland See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • From register entry
      Alice married as a Finniss rather than a Goatham. Although she is recorded as aged 20 I guess this was to reduce the difference between her and her husband (aged 18). Does not give a father's name but names her mother as Alice Gertrude FINNISS.
      Although this is also wrong the evidence from her sister Annie GOATHAM's will points clearly to this being the marriage of Alice Gertrude FINNISS alias GOATHAM.
    Children 4 children 
    Last Modified 16 Mar 2023 
    Family ID F10259  Family Group Page  |  Family Chart

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