m. (1) (1914) Sidney Paul Galvin, (2) (1923) Lilliston Powys Lane.



This looks like that birth (FreeBMD):

Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Births Dec 1893   (>99%)
Boothby Alice Mary St. Saviour 1d 114

(St Saviour is in London.)

In the 1901 census she was with her widowed father Charles J Boothby and her brother George and sister Catherine, in Islington, London.

In 1911 she was an actress on the boards in Warrington in theatrical digs with three other actresses.
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Her first marriage corresponds by name with the information for her second marriage:

Surname First name(s) Spouse District Vol Page
Marriages Mar 1914   (>99%)
BOOTHBY Alice M Calvin Cardiff 11a  530   <-- error: ‘Galvin’
Galvin Sidney P Boothby Cardiff 11a  530

(I have reported the Calvin/Galvin, it starts with ‘G’, error to FreeBMD.)
(2016, Apr, TFPL: FreeBMD have changed it to ‘Galvin’)

And here’s their daughter, apparently the only one:

Surname First name(s) Mother District Vol Page
Births Jun 1915   (>99%)
Galvin Dulcie M Boothby Leeds 9b 763

With this looking like Dulcie’s marriage:

Surname First name(s) Spouse District Vol Page
Marriages Jun 1939   (>99%)
Galvin Dulcie M Harman Tendring 4a 2400
Harman Cyril O Galvin Tendring 4a 2400

(Tendring is in Essex)

And this is probably Dulcie and Cyril’s (only) child:

Surname First name(s) Mother District Vol Page
Births Sep 1947   (>99%)
Harman Frances L Galvin Colchester 4a 762

And a Frances L Harman got married in Essex in 1967:

First name(s) FRANCES L
Last name HARMAN
Marriage quarter 2
Marriage year 1967
Registration month -
MarriageFinder™ FRANCES L HARMAN married
RICHARD J MORGAN
Spouse's last name MORGAN
District BRENTWOOD
District number -
County Essex
Country England
Volume 4A
Page 865
Record set England & Wales marriages 1837-2008
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Alice had three children with Herbert Fordwych: Bettina (b.c.1919), William and Judith.  Their births on FreeBMD:

Surname    First name(s)  Mother    District   Vol  Page
Births Sep 1918   (>99%)
Fordwych   Bettina M      Boothby   Lambeth      1d   609
Births Jun 1920   (>99%)
Fordwych   June           Boothby   Bridlington   9d   787
Births Sep 1921   (>99%)
Fordwych   William D      Boothby   Tendring     4a   1417



William Dundas was a WW2 casualty on 19th Aug 1942, though the notice on the CWGC site says his parents were of Singapore, which was rubbish as Alice remarried Lilliston a couple of years after William’s birth and then lived in England (apparently):

FORDWYCH, WILLIAM DUNDAS

Rank:Flight Sergeant
Trade:PilotService
No:591286
Date of Death:19/08/1942
Age:21
Regiment/Service:Royal Air Force 207 Sqdn.
Grave Reference:  
Cemetery:BOTTESFORD (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
Additional Information: Son of Herbert Fordwych and of Alice Mary Fordwych, of Singapore.
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I wonder if this is her death:

First name(s) ALICE M
Last name LANE
Gender Female
Birth day -
Birth month -
Birth year 1894
Age 67
Death quarter 2
Death year 1961
District HALSTEAD
County Essex
Volume 4A
Page 615
Country England
Record set England & Wales deaths 1837-2007

There are five other possible deaths but only this one in Essex, where her husband had died.

The answer is that this is cartainly her death: the Administration award by the Probate Office was for her two surviving children: Bettina Fordyce and Anthony Powys Lane.
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Her probate index:

LANE Alice mary otherwise Alice Mary Powys of Mouse Cottage Earls Colne Essex widow died 19 May 1961  Administration Ipswich 27 July to Bettina Mary Fordwych spinster and Anthony Powys Lane air line Pilot.
Effects £5250 5s. 8d.
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Note that her actual Administration states that she died on 19th day of May so I corrected the above from the 10th May.

Her Administrators were:

Bettina Mary Fordwych of House Cottage, Earls Colne, Essex, Spinster and
Anthony Powys Lane of The Cottage Links Drive Chelmsford Essex, Air Line Pilot
the lawful children and together the only persons entitled to share in the estate of the said Intestate.
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Their marriage:

First name(s)       SIDNEY P
Last name           GALVIN
Marriage quarter    1
Marriage year       1914
MarriageFinder      SIDNEY P GALVIN married one of these people
                    Alice M Boothby
Spouse's last name  Boothby
District            Cardiff
County              Glamorganshire
Country             Wales
Volume              11A
age number          530
Record set          England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005
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Their marriage registration:

Surname First name(s) Spouse District Vol Page
Marriages Sep 1923   (>99%)
Boothby Alice M Lane I.Wight 2b 1537
Galvin Alice M Lane I.Wight 2b 1537
Lane Lillistone P Galvin I. Wight 2b 1537
Lane Lillistone P Boothby I. Wight 2b 1537
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The marriage certificate has:

Marriage solemnized at the Register Office, Isle of Wight, certificate number 44 on 1st August 1923.

Groom Spouse

Name    Lilliston Powys Lane Alice Mary Galvin
formerly Boothby Spinster
Age 25 years 29 years
Condition Bachelor The Divorced wife of Sydney Paul Galvin
Rank/Profession Lieutencne, RN (ret) ---
Residence Upper Ward, Bonchurch Pier Hotel, Sandown
Father Horace Powys Lane Charles James Boothby
Father’s Job Colonel Indian Army (retired) Builder

Witnesses: Mildred Sheppard, Edwin Styles

Registrat: Charles W Young
Supt Registrar: A G Harrison
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