Alice Evelyn Harcourt MYSTERY

[RJGR]

Hi All,

I am trying to investigate the history of my Great Great Grandmother, Alice Evelyn Harcourt, and I have hit a brick wall. She was born in or around 1837 (although I can find no record of her birth). She married Nathaniel Stevenson on 16th August 1859. Her father, George Harcourt Esq is deceased as of that date and she was his only surviving child.

I don't think she is directly related to the Ankerwyke Harcourts and this George Harcourt is definitely not George S Harcourt MP or George E Harcourt MP who are both alive after 1859.

I also have documents and items from Alice that assert that she was related somehow to Charles Robert Claude Wilde 2nd Baron Truro although I cannot find anything that supports this. (Curiously the witness signature on her wedding certificate looks like it says "Truro" but that could be me imagining things!)

Very grateful to receive any thoughts of bits of info. As I said I feel like I'm at a dead end!

Thanks,
R.

[bevj]

Did she have two daughters called Margaret Stewart Stevenson and Mary Gillespie Stevenson?
Bev

[mckha489]

The witness looks like “Truro” to me too.

[mckha489]

She was (probably) at his funeral in 1891
Have you checked his will?

[mckha489]

I see a couple at least of Alice & Nathaniel’s children’s baptisms are in the non-conformist registers.
So I wonder if the George Harcourt death age 30 buried    1 Sep 1842 at Spa Fields (countess of Huntingdon Connexion) is worth pursuing.
£2.50 to look at his death cert

HARCOURT, GEORGE       30 
GRO Reference: 1842  S Quarter in SAINT JAMES WESTMINSTER  Volume 01  Page 75

[heywood]

The marriage record doesn’t indicate that George Harcourt is deceased. Is that recorded elsewhere?

[mckha489]

The marriage record doesn’t indicate that George Harcourt is deceased. Is that recorded elsewhere?

Here

[heywood]

Thank  you

[Dundee]

Sounds a bit convenient to me, the only child of someone who has died