FISON, Alice Gertrude
Alice Gertrude Fison was born at Park Cottage, Belstead Road, Ipswich on 1 September 1856, youngest child of Joseph Fison (6 April 1819-2 March 1878), corn miller, and his wife Anne Ridley (3 April 1815-8 February 1898), second daughter of William Ridley, who married at Felstead Independent Chapel, Essex on 15 June 1841. In 1861, 4-year-old Alice was living at Park Cottage with her parents, 42-year-old Joseph, born Stowmarket and 46-year-old Anne, born Felstead, with seven siblings Joseph Lorimer 19, Anne 17 and James Oliver 15, all born at Stowmarket, Suffolk, Edward Herbert 14, Mary 12, Janet 8 and Charles Ernest 6, all born in Ipswich. Alice's father died at Ipswich in 1878, aged 58, and in 1881, she was living at Stoke House, Ipswich with her 66-year-old widowed mother, and brothers James Oliver and Charles Ernest, who were both chemical manufacturers in the firm of Joseph Fison of Ipswich, and sisters Mary and Janet. Alice studied at the Ipswich School of Science and Art winning prizes in 1876 and was a member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club in 1878 and exhibited three paintings in 1877 'Spring Flowers', 'Autumn Leaves' and one untitled. She married at St Mary Stoke Church, Ipswich on 26 February 1889, Guy Budd Courtney (27 November 1863-30 December 1943), a physician, and in 1891, 34-year-old Alice was living at 47 Seymour Street, Marylebone, London with her 27-year-old husband. In 1911, they were living at Winton Croft, Binfield, Berkshire with their 19-year-old only son Joseph, a medical student. In 1939, she was living at Trinity House, Barbican Road, Barnstable, Devon with her husband and two servants, and Alice Gertrude Courtney died on 2 July 1940, aged 83, her husband followed in 1943, aged 80.