Alice Hazlehurst, b1873, Stone.

[PhilGH]

My great grand aunt Alice Hazlehurst was born in 1873 in Stone, Staffordshire. In 1891 she was living with her father and 3 sisters in Little Aston near Stone and working as a domestic servant. After that I can find no further trace of her. Any help in tracing her would be gratefully received.

[CaroleW]

Have you already investigated the 1895 marriage in Cheshire to John Hughes?  No details of father given in your post but 1891 shows him as Robert & a tree on Ancestry also shows him as Robert.

She died in Cheshire in 1895 having given birth to a daughter Nellie according to the tree - see freebmd

A transcript of the marriage is on FamilySearch but surname is mis-spelt as Haglehurst 

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F3GT-7KQ

[PhilGH]

CaroleW - Many thanks for that. I’d overlooked that marriage in Congleton, Cheshire. I haven’t found any mention of a Alice Hazlehurst in the vicinity of Congleton in 1891 or earlier so certainly can’t rule this out as being a correct match. Now I’m curious about how Alice might have ended up in Congleton. It’s only 20 miles from Aston where she was born but I haven’t found any other family connection there which might have explained why she moved.

[Comberton]

The father of John Hughes is mis-transcribed as Norman and should be Thomas

22nd April 1895
Congleton, St Peter
John Hughes 27 bachelor Baker 39 Swan Street Thomas Hughes Joiner
Alice Hazlehurst 24  spinster 53 Swan Street Robert Hazlehurst Coachman
All signed, witnesses Alfred & Annie Elizabeth Hughes

John Hughes
1891
www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:49KT-WN2

1901
www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS6J-R5P

[CaroleW]

1891 for Alice shows father Robert was a coachman & gardener

[PhilGH]

Thanks CaroleW and Comberton. I’m sure that’s the Alice Hazlehurst I’ve been searching for. Sad to learn that she died so young though.

[Comberton]

Burial
Alice Hughes 24
6th November 1895
Congleton, St Peter
abode Congleton