Alice Louisa ALEXANDER b. 1906 Cardiff

[jonwarrn]

I thought it was her mum, but it's her stepmother.
Sister of mum.
And also the aunt of Alice.

[ShazAlexander]

@jonw65, yes he married Alice Aynscombe, then remarried after her death to her sister Louisa. Alice Alexander b 1906 was living with her stepmother in 1921, so I have sent off for the will in the hope it will shed some light!

[Christine53]

London Gazette 18 Feb 1949 :

Notice is hereby given that  - 1 By a deed poll dated 26 October 1938 DOLORES LOUISA LIGHTFOOT then of 84 Langford Court Abbey Road NW8 and now of 37 South Lodge Grove End Road NW8 ......
renounced and abandoned the use of her first Christian Name of Alice and of her said surname of Alexander and in lieu thereof assumed as from the date thereof the Christian name of Dolores and the surname of Lightfoot. 2 By a deed poll dated 3 February 1949 the said Dolores Louisa Lightfoot declared she had continuously and without interruption since the date of the principal deed poll been known by the Christian names of Dolores Louisa and the surname Lightfoot and would continue to so use and  for all purposes be known by such names .... and at the date of the principal deed poll was still a Spinster and should have been so described ....

[ShazAlexander]

@Christine53 thank you so much!!!!

[ShazAlexander]

I see that an Eric Lightfoot married in 1925 in Kensington....perhaps he was separated but still married and that's why he and Alice/Dolores lived together but didn't marry?

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Eric's quite well travelled in the early 1950s - New York, Madeira, Durban twice,  Singapore. No sign of Alice/Dolores with him, but on one trip there's a John Alexander aged 82 of High street, Cardiff also on board. Any relation?

As for her trip to Brazil - she's described as a scholar, which most 17 year old female  travellers wouldn't have been, so maybe she was on an educational trip to learn a language