Alice Marion Gates nee Collet (1871 1945)
Alice was born in Worthing, daughter of Augustus Henry Collet, a General Practitioner, from Worthing. Mother Emma Louise was from Middlesex. Alice was baptised on 15th May 1871.
Alice was then the second of 8 children, all born in Worthing, and living in Montague Place in 1881. They had moved to Ashurst Lodge, in Liverpool Road, in 1891, and there were 3 more children. (Ashurst Lodge was where the Montague Centre is now.) The couple eventually had 7 daughters and 5 sons. They also had a Nurse, Under-Nurse, Cook and Housemaid.
Ferdinand Chasemore married Alice at Heene in December 1894. Ferdinand was then a Solicitor, and his father, Ferdinand, was described as a Gentleman.
Ferdinand, born in Steyning, was living in Heene Parish, and Alice in Christchurch.
Ferdinand and Alice were living at Nyetimber, in Shelley Road, when the 1901 census was taken. He was a Solicitor, with his Office at 47 Chapel Road until very recently, this was the site of Aqua Restaurant. They had a son, Chasemore Ferdinand, aged 5, and daughters Violet Evelyn and Dorothy, 4 and 2. They had 2 Nurses, a Housemaid and a Cook.
Still at Nyetimber, in 1911, were Ferdinand and Alice, with Chasemore and Dorothy Violet died in 1905 of appendicitis - plus Alice's sister Winifred, a single lady of 20, Ellen Mary Bailey, sister, aged 35, of Steyning, a Cook and a Parlourmaid.
When Ferdinand died, Probate was given to Alice, and to Herbert Norman Collet, Gentleman. Herbert was Alice's younger brother.
When Alice died, in 1945, she was described as of Whitstable.
(Chasemore married Alice Meyer in 1921 in Worthing, became a Motor Coach Proprietor, and had a son, Richard. They were living in Haynes Road in 1939.He died in 1967)