Birth & Marriage
Alice Petherick was born in St. Austell, on 2 March 1865, the daughter of George Petherick, a Bank Manager and his wife, Emily (born Barratt).
She married Charles Hawkins Hext, a banker, on 16 April 1891 in Kensington. Both her father and her husband bore names "well-known among West Country gentry".
Charles and Alice Hext are shown in the 1901 census as resident at Polgwin in the civil parish of Bodmin, Cornwall. Charles is described as "Retired Banker" aged 49. Alice is shown as age 36. In 1907, they moved to Trebah. Charles Hext served as Mayor of Bodmin in 1895 and as High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1915. He died on 3 January 1917.
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