| [Index] |
| Alice NUTTALL (1898 - 1983) |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
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Doris WANE (1922 - 1997) |
Alice NUTTALL (1898 - 1983) + William WANE (1898 - ) Richard ANDERSON |
Richard NUTTALL (1864 - 1909) | Ricahrd NUTTALL (1821 - 1893) | Richard NUTTALL (1786 - ) |
| Ann (NUTTALL) (1791 - ) | ||||
| Ellen (NUTTALL) (1823 - 1886) | ||||
| Elizabeth AMOS (1858 - ) | Daniel AMOS (1835 - 1885) | Jonas AMOS (1811 - 1880) | ||
| Louisa Lucy (AMOS) (1812 - ) | ||||
| Alice HARTLEY (1831 - 1902) | ||||
| b. 1898 at Little Lever, Lancashire, England |
| m. (1) abt Jun 1919 William WANE (1898 - ) at Wigan, Lancashire, England |
| m. (2) 1946 Richard ANDERSON at Barton, Lancashire, England |
| d. 1983 at Lancashire, England aged 85 |
| Parents: |
| Richard NUTTALL (1864 - 1909) |
| Elizabeth AMOS (1858 - ) |
| Siblings (3): |
| Ernest NUTTALL (1891 - ) |
| Amos NUTTALL (1893 - ) |
| Charles MATHER (1884 - 1914) |
| Children (1): |
| Doris WANE (1922 - 1997) |
| Grandchildren (2): |
| Events in Alice NUTTALL (1898 - 1983)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 1898 | Alice NUTTALL was born | Little Lever, Lancashire, England | |||
| 1901 | 3 | Census | Hindey, Lancashire, England | ||
| 1909 | 11 | Death of father Richard NUTTALL (aged 45) | |||
| abt Jun 1919 | 21 | Married William WANE (aged 21) | Wigan, Lancashire, England | Free BMD Wigan 8c 134 Jun 1919 | |
| abt Mar 1922 | 24 | Birth of daughter Doris WANE | Barnsley, Yorkshire, Engalnd | ||
| 1946 | 48 | Married Richard ANDERSON | Barton, Lancashire, England | Note 1 | |
| 1983 | 85 | Alice NUTTALL died | Lancashire, England | ||
| Note 1: Free BMD Barton, 8c 1713 Jun 1946 |
| Personal Notes: |
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Alice was the only daughter of Elizabeth Amos and Richard Nuttall and was the youngest of four children. She worked at the pit (during the 1914-18 war the men had joined the Standish Pals and women worked at the mine doing men’s jobs. She also worked at a bone factory at Coppull (she had to walk from Standish to Coppull to work and home again each day). One day while walking to work with her friend, it was misty and dark. Alice and her friend fell over something. Alice said later that it was like a coffin. She did not want to go to work but both she and her friend needed the money and the job so they went. Alice had a really bad feeling and was afraid something bad was going to happen. As they worked, the workings at the bone factory collapsed and she was buried alive as the cliff face of bones slid towards them. Three of her co-workers were killed next to her including her friend. Because she screamed so much for so long, her voice box suffered permanent damage and she always sounded hoarse when she spoke. Alice blamed herself for her friends death as the friend had wanted to go home in the morning.
Alice was very poor. She never had a new dress until she was 18, she wore Aunt Polly’s (Mary Jane born 1872) hand-me-downs. She never had a doll. She used to wrap a brick in a shawl and pretend it was a doll. Alice and her mother had to try to earn some money. They took in lodgers and sat with the sick and dying and laid out dead people. Alice was married twice. Her first husband, Billy Wane was very gentle, kind and well respected. He became ill. When he got ill he came up from the pit and worked in the winding shaft, where he was very well respected. He then he got too ill to work. He died of the miners’ disease. Her second husband Richard (Dick) Anderson was a bully and a thug and was violent towards her. Alice’s grand-daughter, Josephine stayed at her house in Standish. One night when she was about two or three, Josephine woke up to see Dick Anderson standing at the door of her bedroom with the landing light behind him. She was so afraid of him that she had hysterics. She screamed and screamed and Alice had to phone the police station in Manchester and send then round to her daughter Doris who, with her husband Jim, had to come all the way from Manchester by taxi in the middle of the night to collect Josephine who never stayed again! Eventually, Alice left Dick Anderson and went to live with Doris in Blackburn. Alice worked at the chip shop on the Boulevard at Blackburn. In 1954, she went to the market on the day bananas were delivered to Blackburn –the first since the war. People could only buy one banana. Alice brought it home, cut it into slices and gave it to Josephine with sugar and milk. This was the first banana Josephine had ever had. Two years later they were growing their own bananas in their garden in Africa. Alice was the first person in England to have her appendix out after the King of England. Alice’s best friend was 16 when she died on the Titanic. She was in steerage and going to her family in America to work when the ship hit an ice berg. She was locked in the steerage section as there were not enough lifeboats. Alice was an excellent baker and her potato cakes and rice puddings were legendary. She went to live in Africa in 1955 with Doris and her family. She looked after the children when Doris and Jim went to work at David Whiteheads in Hartley, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). When there was trouble in Rhodesia, the black Africans wanted independence, Jim and Doris taught Alice how to shoot a gun. One day, shortly before returning from Africa, Doris was seen taking Alice into her bedroom. She showed her where the gun was stored in the wardrobe and where the bullets were on the top shelf. She told Alice that if there was any trouble, then Alice knew what to do. It was only years later that Josephine realised it was Alice’s job to shoot her and her brother Nigel if there was an uprising before shooting herself. Alice hated Africa. She was bitten by a spider on the back of her leg which swelled up to twice its size. The poison eventually burst out of the back of the leg leaving a large crater in the back of her leg which was there until she died. One day, the houseboy, Langton, was sweeping the hall at the house at 5, Rhodes Crescent, Hartley, Rhodesia where the family lived. As he swept, Alice noticed he was sweeping a snake in front of him. Alice asked where the snake had come from. Langton replied, ‘From under your bed Madame!’ From that day –until she left Africa, Alice stripped her bed, examined the springs, turned the mattress and remade the bed before getting in each night. It used to take her ages to get to sleep –and the rest of the household! Alice would get into bed –eventually –and then lie there listening to the mosquitoes and flies buzzing round the room. She used to take her fly swat and wait till they landed on the wall and then she would kill them –with a few choice words! Her room had to be regularly painted to cover all the blood on the walls. When they came back from Africa, Alice stayed with the family who bought a fish and chip shop in Colne (Philips Lane Chip Shop. ) her job was boning, cutting and cooking the fish. She spent so much time over the fish fryer that the front of her hair went orange. It remained discoloured for the rest of her life – another 20+ years. After they left the chip shop, Alice went to live in Standish for a while. When she was there, someone who remembered her looking after sick and dying people years earlier asked her to look after an elderly lady called Eugenie. Alice moved in and took care of Eugenie until she died. Eugenie gave Alice’s grand-daughter Josephine a large green vase with a flower on it which she had been given as a wedding gift in the 1890s. Josephine had been wiping down all the walls in her house with disinfectant as the house had it annual spring clean. Alice loved looking after her family. If ever someone was ill and Alice was looking after them, they felt safe and loved. She could sound brusque but was gentle and loving and if someone had a problem, they would go to her. She always took Doris’ side though in any disagreement. After a couple of years of living in Standish, Alice returned to Blackburn to live with Doris and Jim until her death in 1983. She was cremated at Accrington Cemetery like her brother Amos before her. |