On birth certificate the surname is given as Lemming. Father's address on birth certificate is 4 Bes…

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On birth certificate the surname is given as Lemming. Father's address on birth certificate is 4 Beswick Street, Tunstall. Beswick Street is given as the place of birth. By 1881 census the the family has moved to Peel Street, Tunstall.

1891 She is not living with her mother and step father, James Barnes, by the time of the 1891 census although she would have been only 11 years (nearly 12) old.
There is an Alice Ann Lemming, aged 11 working as a servant, in role of nurse, for the Jones family which at the time had a 4 month old daughter and two other young children. Mr John R Jones the head of the household was a traveller for a brewery and lived at 42 Rushton Road, Burslem. There was one other servant, a domestic, Louisa E Hart aged 20.

Family stories claim that she was a maid in the Bradbury/Marsh family household which was quite well to do and subsequently married the son of the family, but none of the evidence bears this out. The story probably relates to her being maid in the Jones’s household. The Jones’s went on to have a son Reginald in about 1897 (aged 4 in 1901 see census Rg13/2585 p14) and Alice’s daughter Jane Elizabeth married a Reginald Jones in 1921.

It may be the same Reginald and, if so, would go some way to explaining the family story and the reason for Alice being prevented from associating with her granddaughter Ivy Jones following Jane Elizabeth’s death, as they might have considered Alice too lowly as, by 1901 were living in a very well to do part of Wolstanton, Woodlands Parade. Alice was a laundress in the local workhouse. It is a nice story but it doesn’t fit. The marriage certificate of Jane E and Reginald names his father as Thomas Rowlands Jones, not John R Jones.

At the time of their marriage Reginald Jones was living at Chell Green (close to Turnhurst) and his father was an insurance superintendent.

Alice died in 1946 and is burried in Newchapel church yard with her husband and Daughter (known as Ginny, and probably Jane Elizabeth) although we have not found either the grave or the parish record.

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