See also

Mary Alice Rust (1848-1940)

Individual Events and Attributes

  • Occupation:

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  • accountant, companion and a housekeeper2,3,4,5,6

  • Birth:

  • 8 Sep 1848

  • Stowmarket, Suffolk, England1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

  •  

  • 1939 register says born on 8th September 1843

  • Census:

  • 30 Mar 1851 (age 2)

  • Ipswich Street, Stowmarket, Suffolk, England7

  •  

  • daughter living with her parents Thomas and Sarah, brothers Frederick and Richard, sister Fanny, and servants Jane Gladwell and her second cousin Louisa Steggall. Born in Stowmarket Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 7 Apr 1861 (age 12)

  • 1 St. Michael's Place, Hastings, Sussex, England8

  •  

  • daughter attending school and living with her parents Frederick and Sarah, sisters Fanny, Sarah and Ellen, brothers Richard, Henry, William, George and Joseph, and a servant. Born in Stowmarket Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1871 (age 22)

  • 18 Robertson Street, Hastings, Sussex, England2

  •  

  • unmarried niece to proprietor working as an accountant and living with ten others and two servants. Born in Stowmarket Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 3 Apr 1881 (age 32)

  • Orwell House, Church Road, St. Leonards on Sea, Sussex, England3

  •  

  • unmarried niece and companion to the head of the household and living with cousin Alfred G Notcutt and twelve boarders. Born in Stowmarket Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 5 Apr 1891 (age 43)

  • Orwell House, Church Road, St. Leonards on Sea, Sussex, England4

  •  

  • unmarried niece working as a housekeeper and living with widowed James Notcutt, cousins Alfred and Edward Notcutt. a boarder, and four servants. Born in Stowmarket Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 54)

  • Orwell House, Church Road, St. Leonards on Sea, Sussex, England5

  •  

  • unmarried niece working as a housekeeper and living with widowed James Notcutt, cousins Edward and Alfred Notcutt, a visitor, and four servants. Born in Stowmarket Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 62)

  • Orwell House, Church Road, St. Leonards on Sea, Sussex, England6

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  • unmarried niece working as a housekeeper and living in seven rooms with widowed uncle James Notcutt, cousins Edward and Alfred Notcutt. and three servants. Born Stowmarket Suffolk, note age given as 53 but that is clearly wrong

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 74 yrs 9 mns)

  • 14 The Avenue, Eastbourne, East Sussex, England9

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  • an unmarried visitor doing home duties at Orwell House St. Leonards on Sea and living in three rooms with cousin Alfred Notcutt. Born in Stowmarket Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 91)

  • 6 Warrior Square, St. Leonards on Sea, Sussex, England10

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  • unmarried as Alice Mary and living on private means with Beatrice Gordon housekeeper and nurse. Born on 8th September1843

  • Death:

  • 14 Apr 1940 (age 95)

  • Hastings "Registration District", East Sussex, England11,12

  • Probate:

  • 16 May 1940

  • Probate Registry, Lewes, East Sussex, England12

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  • a spinster as Alice Mary Rust of 6 Warrior Square St. Leonards-on-Sea died 14th April 1940, probate of effects of £9,932 2s 11d (~£391,000 in 2017) to George Alfred Herington and Charles Hastings New solicitors

Sources

1.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Stow 1848 quarter:4 volume:12 page:398. Cit. Date: 5 May 2024.

2.

England and Wales Census 1871, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG10 piece:1031 folio:43 page:13 schedule:23. Cit. Date: 23 May 2024.

3.

England and Wales Census 1881, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG11 piece:1027 folio:76 page:6 schedule:529. Cit. Date: 23 May 2024.

4.

England and Wales Census 1891, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG12 piece:764 folio:29 page:5 schedule:25. Cit. Date: 23 May 2024.

5.

England and Wales Census 1901, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG13 piece:869 folio:64 page:15 schedule:68. Cit. Date: 23 May 2024.

6.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG14 piece:4761 class:RG78 piece:204 registration district:69 sub-district:3 enumeration district:11 schedule:345. Cit. Date: 23 May 2024.

7.

England and Wales Census 1851, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:HO107 piece:1794 folio:595 page:10 schedule:35. Cit. Date: 5 May 2024.

8.

England and Wales Census 1861, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG09 piece:561 folio:208 page:72 schedule:364. Cit. Date: 5 May 2024.

9.

England and Wales Census 1921, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive series:RG15 piece:4726 registration district:71 sub-district:2 enumeration district:28 schedule:239. Cit. Date: 23 May 2024.

10.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG101 piece:2482A page:18 line:10 letter code:EIAU. Cit. Date: 23 May 2024.

11.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Hastings 1940 quarter:2 volume:2b page:15. Cit. Date: 23 May 2024.

12.

UK Government Probate Service, UK Government Find a Will, (on-line at www.probatesearch.service.gov.uk, www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Lewes 1940 page:708. Cit. Date: 23 May 2024.