Alice Mildred Nailor

1905-1905

Alice’s birth was registered in Newbury, Berkshire. She was the 2^nd of three daughters of Albert and Rosa Alice Nailor (nee Collier) who were married on the 1^st June 1904, in Highclere, Hampshire (see details below).

Alice died aged 1 month on the 6^th June 1905, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 10^th June 1905.

Alice’s family:

Her father: Albert was born in 1877, in Chieveley, Berkshire, the son of Edmund and Martha Nailor (nee Fryzer) who were married in 1856 (surname recorded as Nailer, marriage registered in Wantage)

Her mother: Rosa Alice was born on the 11^th December 1877, in Enborne, Berkshire, the daughter of Albert and Matilda Collier (nee Collins) who were married in 1877 (marriage registered in Newbury)

Albert and Rosa’s marriage details:

Place: Highclere, Hampshire

Date: 1^st June 1904

Groom: Albert Nailor, aged 26, bachelor, occupation, Painter, abode, “The 3 Horse Shoes” Donnington

Bride: Rosa Alice Collier, aged 26, spinster, abode, The Mill, Wash Water, Highclere

Fathers: Edmund Nailor, a Shoeing Smith, deceased and Albert Collier, a Farmer, deceased

Witnesses: Sarah Collier and Lily Maud Collier

Alice’s siblings were:

Violet Kate, born 26^th April 1904, in Highclere, Hampshire

Ivy Rose, born 11^th June 1909, in Newbury, Berkshire

Albert Edmond, born 1912, in Newbury.

In 1911 Albert (33), a General Labourer, Rosa (33), Violet Kate (6), Ivy Rose (1) and a boarder, Charles Adams (38), a General Labourer, were recorded living 3 Waldergrave Place, Northbrook Street, Newbury.

During the 1^st World War, Albert served as a Lance Corporal in the Princess Charlotte of Wales, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 6^th Battalion. He died aged 39, on the 17^th February 1917, in France and is buried/commemorated at Regina Trench Cemetery, Grandcourt.

In 1939 Rosa was recorded living at 13 Grasmere Avenue, Coventry, Warwickshire, with her married daughter Violet Kate Dixon, her son-in-law, Harry Edgar Dixon and their three children.

Rosa died aged 79, in 1956 (death registered in Reading, Berkshire).

Newbury Weekly News

Dated 15^th June 1905

Nailor – June 6, at 3 Waldegrave-place, Newbury, Alice Mildred, the child of Albert and Rosa Nailor, aged 6 weeks.

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