Person:Alice Halford (2)

Alice Halford was baptised on 2nd September 1778 at Witham on the Hill in Lincolnshire, England, daughter of William and Elizabeth Halford. The family lived at Toft, a hamlet just east of Witham.

In 1807, Alice married Edward Newborn, a gardener from Barnack, a few miles south of Toft. It has yet to be established where they married, but their marriage licence describes Alice as living in the parish of Braceborough at the time.

Between 1808 and 1819 they had five children. The first three, between 1808 and 1812, were baptised at Barnack. They then moved to Thurlby by Bourne in Lincolnshire, just east of Alice's native Toft, where the younger two children were baptised in 1816 and 1819.

By the 1841 census they had settled back in Barnack, where Edward worked as a gardener. In the 1841 census Alice's sister Sarah was living with them.

Edward died in 1853, aged 70.

After Edward's death Alice lived with her son Edward and later with her daughter Charlotte. She lived to be 97 years old and died at Barnack on 4th April 1876.

1. ↑ Church of England. Parish Church of Witham-on-the-Hill (Lincolnshire). Parish registers, 1670-1942. (Lincoln: Lincolnshire Archives Office, 1990).

   Baptisms in 1778
   Alice D[aughte]r of W[illia]m & Eliz[abe]th Halford Toft Sep[tembe]r 2d

   This baptism has been linked to the Alice Halford who married Edward Newborn on the basis that it is at about the time implied by the age she quoted as an adult in the censuses, and in the parish (Witham) and of the hamlet (Toft) which she quoted as her place of birth. Moreover, in the 1841 census she had a Sarah Halford living with her, and the Alice baptised in 1778 has a younger sister called Sarah baptised in 1784.

2. ↑ England. 1841 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 815; Book 2; Folio 13; Page 20, 6 Jun 1841.

   Address: Barnack, Northamptonshire
   Edward Newborn, male, 50 [1786-91], Gardener, born in county
   Alice Newborn, female, 55 [1781-6], not born in county
   Robert Newborn, male, 20 [1816-21], Ag[ricultural] Lab[ourer], born in county
   Sarah Halford, female, 50 [1786-91], Ind[ependent], not born in county

3. ↑ England. 1851 Census Returns for England and Wales. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 2094; Folio 492; Page 18, 30 Mar 1851.

   Address: Barnack, Northamptonshire
   Edward Newborn, head, married, male, 69 [1781/2], Lab[ourer] Gardener, b. Barnack, Northamptonshire
   Alice Newborn, wife, married, female, 72 [1778/9], b. Witham, Lincolnshire

4. ↑ England. 1861 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG9; Piece 2314; Folio 47; Page 13, 7 Apr 1861.

   Address: Barnack, Northamptonshire
   Alice Newborn, head, widow, female, 82 [1778/9], Independent, b. Toft, Lincolnshire
   Edward Newborn, son, unmarried, male, 48 [1812/13], Market Gardener, b. Barnack, Northamptonshire
   Eliza Morriss, granddaughter, unmarried, female, 17 [1843/4], Serv[ant], b. Barnack, Northamptonshire

5. ↑ England. England and Wales. 1871 Census Schedules. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG10; Piece 3310; Folio 51; Page 12, 2 Apr 1871.

   Address: Barnack, Northamptonshire
   Richard Horn, head, married, male, 58 [1812/13], Ag[ricultural] Lab[ourer], b. Southorpe, Northamptonshire
   Charlotte Horn, wife, married, female, 59 [1811/12], b. Barnack, Northamptonshire
   Charlotte Cunnington, daughter in law, unmarried, female, 31 [1839/40], Laundress, b. Stamford, Lincolnshire
   Edward Cunnington, son in law, unmarried, male, 27 [1843/4], Ag[ricultural] Lab[ourer], b. West Deeping, Lincolnshire
   Humphery Cunnington, son in law, unmarried, male, 25 [1845/6] Ag[ricultural] Lab[ourer], b. West Deeping, Lincolnshire
   Alice Newborn, mother in law, widow, female, 91 [1779/80], Retired Gardener Widow, b. Toft, Lincolnshire

6. ↑ Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. Alice NEWBORN, June Quarter 1876, Stamford Registration District, Volume 7a, page 195, aged 96 [1779/80]

7. ↑ Burials register, in Church of England. Parish Church of Barnack (Northamptonshire). Parish registers, 1695–1974. (Northampton, England: Northamptonshire Record Office).

   BURIALS in the Parish of Barnack in the County of Northampton in the Year 1876
   No.	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   300	Alice Newborn	Barnack	April 8th	96	George Steer, Curate

8. ↑ Stamford Mercury, in United Kingdom. The British Newspaper Archive
   Page 4, Friday 21 Apr 1876.

   DIED.
   At Barnack, on the 4th inst., Alice relict of Edward Newborn, in her 97th year.