David, I am sorry for the confusion with this posting, I am not searching for an Alice from Sheffield but an Alice from the Isle of Wight Hampshire.

On the 19 March I posted a message for Mary M, as follows.

I am looking for an MI of an Alice Foster who was buried at Rushen on the 21 March 1923, just wondered if there was a MI records of this and importantly an address for the lady.

Mary very kindly posted information about this Alice Foster which mentioned the valuable point that she was from Sheffield, I then responded that the Alice who I am searching for, her partner stated that he came from Sheffield and that possibly the person that informed the authorities of her death thought this was the case also.

As for the A C A Foster aged one on the 1871 census I did try to look at the census for the family on find my past, but as mentioned could not find it. I did have a look on Brian Lawson’s census index and it was a plain as day on there. However, A C A foster looks like she may have been born on the Isle of Man so it would not be the same Alice that I am looking for.

Sue, hope you are well after your hospital and things are okay with you. If you are referring to the birth registrations, not baptisms, from the Isle of Wight bmd site I have covered and accounted for most of the young ladies on there, by way of death, marriage or them turning up on the 1901 census. I have found this an extremely site as it gives the maiden name of the birth mum, allowing me to find possibly a marriage for the parents, and then tracing them on censuses.

At the moment I am looking at an Alice Phillips born Isle of Wight approximately 1866 living on the 1881 census in Norfolk. These are all maybes at the moment as it is still work in progress – parents Daniel and Mary Ann Phillips on the 1881 living Brading Isle of Wight. Possibly this Alice married Harris David Cook or Edward Wellesley Dowling in 1884 Christchurch, as I say still work in progress nothing concrete yet.

Ewan