Alice Sarah Fry was the ninth child of Samuel Fry & Sarah Smeed born Jan-March 1860 at Lindfield, Sussex.
In 1861 Alice was living with her parents, 3 brothers & 3 sisters at Wiggs Farm, Withyham, Sussex
Alice was living at home in 1871& 1881 at Chartners Farm, Hartfield, Sussex with her parents & brothers & sisters.
In Jan-March 1888 Alice married Thomas Jesse Smallpiece at Chelsea. Thomas was the son of Thomas Smallpiece & Mary Jane Foster born Rotherfield & christened June 24th, 1849 at Frant. Thomas Jesse had previously married Esther Quickenden (born 1846, Cuckfield) in 1870 at St Margaret, Westminster. He was initially a farmer in Godstone & later became an innkeeper at the Penshurst Station Inn, Chiddingstone where he & Esther were living in 1881 with their son Jesse (7). Esther died in 1887 aged 40.
In 1891 Thomas & Alice were living at the Railway Hotel, Chiddingstone, Sevenoaks, Kent where Thomas was an innkeeper. They had 2 visitors - Edmund Quickenden, (61) a post master, & Mary Bentley, a widow (36), & a boarder Reginald Hucham (56) a retired army pensioner, & 2 servants.
Alice died in Apr-June 1895 aged 35, her death being registered at Sevenoaks.
Alice’s husband Thomas remarried in 1896 in Lambeth, London. He married Mary Bentley, who as noted above was visiting at the time of the 1891 census!! Mary Bentley was in fact Mary Quickenden, the daughter of Edmund Quickenden who was also visiting at the time of the census. Mary had married Alfred Bentley in 1882 at Kensington. Alfred was visiting Edmund Quickenden & family at the time of the 1881 census!
Mary & Thomas were not traced in 1901.
In 1911 they were living at 81 Elthorne Rd, Islington, London. Thomas had no occupation.