Hello from California, I just discovered this conversation and signed up to participate. Alice Aubrey James and Arthur Blenkinsop Forster were my grandparents. I've done my searches an Ancestry.com. There is a mystery regarding Alice's family of origin. She said she was raised by two spinster aunts with no mention of parents nor siblings. She grew up in Wales, went into service at a manor house as a lady's maid. She went on to train as a nurse. While working in a hospital in London she met her future husband Arthur who was hospitalized for TB. He'd had treatment at a sanatorium in Arosa, Switzerland. The doctor in London urged him to immigrate to California for his health condition. He was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh: In California he taught French and at Hollywood High School. In summery, Alice's story doesn't fit with the documents I've found on Ancestry. Many people have reached out to me trying to make a match with my grandmother Alice but none of the documentation of family of origin seem to support her story. Cheers, CP in California
