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The facts I have about Alicia are:
Born abt 1824 in Lancashire (parents Arthur Elliott and Elizabeth Matthews)
Married William Tatlow 12 Nov 1843 at Christ Church Chapel, Every Street, Manchester
Had daughter Emily 25 Dec 1845 in Sheffield
Had son Joseph 18 April 1851 at Brighton Terrace, Pitsmoor, Sheffield (my great grandfather)
There the story of Alicia ends. She is not mentioned in the 1851 census taken 3 weeks before Joseph was born, but William and Emily are mentioned in that census as staying with the Truswells at Newark in Nottinghamshire.
William and a Matilda Louisa Henn then start having 6 children beginning with Frances Marian in 1858 in Birmingham. William and Matilda marry in Kings Norton, Worcestershire in 1866.
So what happened to Alicia? I cannot find any mention of her after Joseph’s birth and I cannot find a death record for her. In his autobiography “Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland” Joseph does not mention his mother Alicia! Did she perhaps die giving birth to Joseph?
Any thoughts or answers would be very welcome.
Russell Cooney