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Alice Gertrude FINNISS
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Name Alice Gertrude FINNISS Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born 4 Nov 1897 Tenterden, Kent, England
- 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)
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
- 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
- At the time her sister Annie wrote her will.
Died 1973 Auchtermuchty Reg Dist, Fife, Scotland
- 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-siblings1 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
, d. Sep Q 1919, Tenterden Reg Dist, Kent, England
(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
, d. 7 Mar 1909, 3, Bryant Street, Chatham, Kent, England
(Age ~ 33 years)
Other Partners: Arthur Charles GOATHAM m. 19 Jun 1898Married 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
, d. 1960, Dunbarney and Dron Reg Dist, Scotland
(Age 58 years) Married 2 Apr 1920 Horsemarket, Falkland, Fife, Scotland
- 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.
Children4 children Last Modified 16 Mar 2023 Family ID F10259 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- GRO ref: Finniss, Alice Gertrude q4 1897 Tenterden RD 2a 801; GRO online index does not show a mother's maiden name (suggesting illegitimate)
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Born - 4 Nov 1897 - Tenterden, Kent, England 


Baptised - 16 Aug 1908 - St. Mary’s Church, Chatham, Kent, England 


Residence - 1971 - 40, Lomond Crescent, Falkland, Fife, Scotland 


Died - 1973 - Auchtermuchty Reg Dist, Fife, Scotland 

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