Jessie Rosalie GILMORE [1515]

  General Notes:

Death Ref: ALSTON Jessie R 89 Eastbourne 2b 105

Eastbourne, Ocklynge Cemetery
Inscription
Sacred
to the memory of
JESSIE ROSALIE ALSTON
widow of
Captain A. H. Alston, R.N.
who died at Eastbourne
December 17th 1923
aged 89 years
"Be thou faithful until death and
I will give thee a crown of life.
. . . . .
Ref: Findmypast

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 3 Apr 1881, 30 Auckland Hill Norwood LND. Jessie is recorded as head of house a widow of a Captain R.N. aged 45 born Camberwell SRY

2. Census: England, 5 Apr 1891, Southbrook Rd Lee LND. Jessie is recorded as a head of house a widow aged 54 living on means born Middlesex.

3. Census: England, 31 Mar 1901, 5 Limes Rd Folkestone KEN. Jessie is recorded as head of house a widow aged 65 living on own means and Naval Pension born Camberwell SRY

4. Census: England, 2 Apr 1911, Arklow House Eastbourne SSX. Jessie is recorded as head of a 9 roomed house a widow aged 75 she had 6 children 5 still alive living on private means born Camberwell LON

Jessie married Commander Alfred Henry ALSTON R N [71] [MRIN: 491], son of Rev George Downing ALSTON [68] and Anne Charlotte OXENDEN [69], on 23 Feb 1865 in Ramsgate KEN. (Commander Alfred Henry ALSTON R N [71] was born on 7 Oct 1829 in Hadleigh SFK, baptised on 8 Oct 1829 in Hadleigh SFK and died on 22 Jan 1874 in Sandgate Cheriton Folkstone KEN.). The cause of his death was softening of the brain over one month.