Alice Hudgell was born 1871 in High Street Wormley, Hertfordshire one of four children born to David Hudgell and Amelia Boultwood.

     Amelia had already been widowed when she met and married David and she had three children already, one of whom was handicapped and deaf.

     Amelia was 12 years David's senior and David lied about his age on census's - as some men did - to make it look as if he was older or the same age as his wife.

     In the 1861 census he was stated as 16 and in the 1871 as 45 but in the 1881 census back down to 39 years of age making him only then 3 years younger than his wife when in fact he was 9 years younger.

     In 1891 they were living in High Road Wormley but by the end of that year Amelia has died and David moved in with his daughter Emma and husband Frederick Baker

     In early 1897 Alice married Benjamin William Speller a gardener  and in 1901 Benjamin and Alice were living at 11 Turnford Cottages Cheshunt Hertfordshire with their son Horace aged 3 years old, their daughter Florence Alice Speller sadly died before the age of one.

This picture was taken later in life outside Benjamin's sisters house in Tottenham