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Alice Phoebe Andrews
1872 –1919
Alice Phoebe Andrews
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Unmarked grave Alice Phoebe Andrews (née Tarbox) (1873-1919)
Alice was born in Berkhamsted in 1872, the daughter of Joseph Tarbox, a letter carrier, and his wife Isabella. She was baptised in St Peter’s, 11 August that year.
In 1881 the family were living in Highfield Road and Alice was the eldest of five children.
She married George Andrews, a labourer, in 1891 and they were to have nine children: Florence (1892), John (1894), William (1895), Alice Isabella (1897), Daisy (1899), Rosa (1901), Nellie Elizabeth (1902), Violet May (1907) and Rose Mary (1912).
In 1901 the family were living at 9, High Street but by 1911 they had moved to “Lusitania”, 1, Highfield Road. The house name may seem macabre now, with the knowledge that the Lusitania was sunk with great loss of life during the First World War, but at the time it was one of the great ocean liners and its launch had been a major event and source of pride.
Alice died in June 1919 aged 47 and was buried 27th of that month. Possibly, given the date, she was one of the victims of the great Spanish flu epidemic that was sweeping the world. Her daughter Violet May, who died in 1929 lies here too, in an unmarked grave.
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Unmarked grave Alice Phoebe Andrews (née Tarbox) (1873-1919)
Alice was born in Berkhamsted in 1872, the daughter of Joseph Tarbox, a letter carrier, and his wife Isabella. She was baptised in St Peter’s, 11 August that year.
In 1881 the family were living in Highfield Road and Alice was the eldest of five children.
She married George Andrews, a labourer, in 1891 and they were to have nine children: Florence (1892), John (1894), William (1895), Alice Isabella (1897), Daisy (1899), Rosa (1901), Nellie Elizabeth (1902), Violet May (1907) and Rose Mary (1912).
In 1901 the family were living at 9, High Street but by 1911 they had moved to “Lusitania”, 1, Highfield Road. The house name may seem macabre now, with the knowledge that the Lusitania was sunk with great loss of life during the First World War, but at the time it was one of the great ocean liners and its launch had been a major event and source of pride.
Alice died in June 1919 aged 47 and was buried 27th of that month. Possibly, given the date, she was one of the victims of the great Spanish flu epidemic that was sweeping the world. Her daughter Violet May, who died in 1929 lies here too, in an unmarked grave.
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