Alice Houlton

1859 – 1934

✓ Validated against records · 2026-07-07

Alice Houlton was born on 4 June 1859 in the parish of St Mary, Hull — a shoemaker's daughter, a child of John Houlton's third marriage, to Mary Ann Temperton, and the one through whom this line runs on. Mum recorded the June date, and the record backs her in an unusual way: when Alice was finally brought to church ten years later, the clerk of St Mary's Lowgate wrote her birth date into the margin of the baptism register, so the register itself testifies to the day.

Her childhood moved between the courts off the Old Town streets, always within a few hundred yards of her father's shoemaking work: at two she is on the census at 11 Winter Alley, at twelve at James Place — the next court along — a scholar in a household of eight. On 28 November 1869, aged ten, she was 'Received into the Church' at St Mary's, Lowgate, alongside her little brother Albert: the register's phrase means she had been privately baptised as a baby and was now publicly received, one of a small batch the vicar John Scott regularised that day. No register of the private baptism has been found.

In 1877 she married Samuel David Frith at St Mary's, Lowgate — the church of her own late baptism — and the Houlton line passed into the Frith spine. Her son Samuel David, born in 1884, carries it down to the present family. She died in the spring of 1934, on the Drypool side of the river, aged 74.

Composed from validated records · 2026-07-07

Birth: June 4th 1859, Hull
Baptism: November 28th 1869, St. Mary, Lowgate
Marriage: 1877 to Samuel David Frith at St. Mary's Hull
Death: 1934, Drypool aged 74 years
Parents: John Houlton and Mary Ann Temperton
Siblings: George William Houlton born Thealby, Lincolnshire Henry (Harry) Houlton baptised September 14th 1851, Hull Thomas Houlton baptised May 8th 1853, Hull Alfred Houlton baptised April 29th 1855 burial June 3rd 1856 aged 14 months Eliza Jane Houlton born 1857, Hull Alice Houlton born June 1859, baptised November 20 1869, Hull Annie Houlton born December 7th 1862 baptised December 11th 1895, Hull Frederick Houlton born 1864, Hull Albert Houlton born February 14th 1867, baptised November 28th 1869
Children: George Henry Frith born 1878, Hull James Albert Frith born 1880, Hull Kate Frith born 1882, Hull Samuel David Frith born 1884, Hull Lily Frith born 1888, Hull Walter Stafford Frith born 1891, Hull Alice Frith born 1895, Hull
1861c: Living with parents in the parish of St. Mary, Hull John Houlton, Head, born 1817 Hull MaryAnn Houlton, Wife, born 1827, Hull George William Houlton, Son, born 1848 Tealby, Lincolnshire Harry Houlton, Son born 1851 Hull Thomas Houlton, born 1853, Hull Eliza Jane Houlton, Daughter, born 1857, Hull Alice Houlton Daughter, born 1859, Hull Address: 11 Winters Alley
1871c: Living with parents in the parish of St. Mary, Hull Jno (sic) Houlton, Head, born 1818, Hull Mary Ann Houlton, Wife, born 1827, Hull Thomas Houlton, Son, born 1853, Hull, Oil Miller Eliza Houlton, Daughter, born 1857, Hull Alice Houlton Daughter, born 1859, Hull Annie Houlton, Daughter, born 1861, Hull Frederick Houlton, Son, born 1864, Hull Address: Jame's Place
1877: Marries Samuel David Frith in St. Mary's, Lowgate, Hull

In your grandmother’s words · from her notebook

Family

Parents

JHFatherJohn Houlton1817–1901 MTMotherMary Ann Temperton1827–1895

The children of John & Mary Ann

· · · · Alice Houlton b. 1859this page · · ·

The children of John & Sarah Dawson

The children of John & Ann Fisher

Marriage

SFSpouseSamuel David Frith1857–1929

Children

SFChild · the line continuesSamuel David Frithmain line1884–1917

Life

Confirmed — anchored to a recordEstimated — inferred

1859

Born in the parish of St Mary, Hull — 4 June 1859

4 June 1859 at Hull

Alice Houlton | registration quarter 3 | 1859 | Hull | Yorkshire— GRO birth index — Q3 1859, Hull

Confirmed in index record Evidence

Found in an index or transcript — the original page not yet read:

GRO birth index — Q3 1859, Hull — England & Wales Births 1837–2006 (GRO index via findmypast), checked 7 Jul 2026: the only Alice Houlton registered 1859 index entry — original not yet seen

1861

Census · 1861

1861

John Houlton | Head | Mar | 44 | Shoemaker | Do Do [Hull, Yorks] — Mary Ann Do | Wife | Mar | 34 | Do Do — George Wm Do | Son | 13 | Errand Boy | Thealby Lincoln — Harry Do | Son | 10 | Do Do [Errand Boy] | Hull Yorks — Thomas Do | Son | 8 | Scholar | Do Do — [overleaf] Eliza Jane Houlton | Daur | 4 | Scholar | Hull Yorks — Alice Do | Daur | 2 | Do Do
— 1861 census — 11 Winter Alley, Hull

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1861 census — 11 Winter Alley, Hull — TNA RG 9/3588, folio 120, pages 21–22, schedule 132; ED 12, sub-district 1 Humber, Hull (parish header: Holy Trinity); read at the image on findmypast, 7 Jul 2026 read at the image

1869

'Received into the Church' — St Mary's, Lowgate, aged ten

28 November 1869 at St Mary

[margin]
June 4 1859 | Nov 28 | Alice | John & Mary Ann | Houlton | James's Place | Corda-wainer [Cordwainer] | John Scott Vicar | No. 2117. [written across the lower line:] Received into the Church — [the entry above:] Jan 14 1867 | Nov 28 | Albert | John & Mary Ann | Houlton | James's Place | Cord-wainer | John Scott Vicar | No. 2116.
— Baptism register — St Mary's, Lowgate (1869)

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Baptism register — St Mary's, Lowgate (1869) — East Riding Archives PE 185/9 (St Mary's, Hull, baptisms), register page 265, entries 2116–2117; read at the image on findmypast, 7 Jul 2026 read at the image

1871

Census · 1871

1871

Jno Houlton | Head | Mar | 53 | Sale[s]man at Shoe Shop | Hull Yorks. — Mary Ann Do | Wife | Do | 44 | Hull — Thomas Do | Son | Unm | 18 | Oil Miller | Hull — Eliza Do | Daur | 14 | Ser | Hull — Alice Do | Daur | 12 | Scholar | Hull — Annie Do | Daur | 10 | Do | Hull — Fredrick Do | Son | 7 | Do | Hull — Albert Do | Son | 4 | Do | Hull
— 1871 census — James Place, Hull (St Mary)

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1871 census — James Place, Hull (St Mary) — TNA RG 10/4787, folio 112, page 16; ED 12, Whitefriars Ward, parish St Mary, Kingston upon Hull; read at the image on findmypast, 7 Jul 2026 read at the image

1877

Married Samuel David Frith

10 March 1877 at St Mary's Hull

No. 412.
March 10th, 1877 — Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of St Mary in the County of Hull: Samuel David Frith, 21, bachelor, labourer, Chapel Lane, father John Henry Frith, bricklayer; Alice Houlton, 18, spinster, Chapel Lane, father John Houlton, shoe maker. Married in the Parish Church, after banns, by me, R. K. Preston, Curate. This marriage was solemnized between us: Samuel David Frith, Alice Houlton — in the presence of us: Thomas Houlton; the ✕ mark of Charlotte Storrs.
— Marriage register — St Mary's, Lowgate (1877)

Read at the image record Evidence

Confirmed against the original record, read at the image:

Marriage register — St Mary's, Lowgate (1877) — St Mary's, Hull, marriage register — East Riding Archives PE 185/22, page 206, entry 412; image read online (findmypast Yorkshire Marriages). Both bride and groom signed. The groom's "21" runs a year ahead of the font date of March 1857 — the same habit his son would repeat. Mum read the second witness as "Charlotte X Hors…"; the register's hand reads Storrs. read at the image

1934

Died at Drypool — spring 1934, aged 74

1934

Alice Frith | birth year [derived] 1860 | quarter 2 | 1934 | Sculcoates | Yorkshire— GRO death index — Q2 1934, Sculcoates

Confirmed in index record Evidence

Found in an index or transcript — the original page not yet read:

GRO death index — Q2 1934, Sculcoates — England & Wales Deaths 1837–2007 (GRO index via findmypast), checked 7 Jul 2026: the only Alice Frith death registered 1934 in Yorkshire; Drypool registered under Sculcoates district index entry — original not yet seen

Our research

What this pass could not settle, and where it would be settled:

Her private baptism. The 1869 St Mary's entry says 'Received into the Church' — so Alice was privately baptised as a baby, but no register of it has been found (Yorkshire Baptisms, 1859±2: nothing). Likely a home baptism never separately registered; a Hull-registers trawl at Hull History Centre could close it.
Albert's birth date. The 1869 register margin reads Jan 14 1867 for her brother Albert; Mum's page says February 14th 1867. His GRO birth certificate (Q1 1867, Hull) would settle it — a purchase, low priority (sibling, not spine).
Annie's adult baptism. Mum records sister Annie baptised 11 Dec 1895, aged 33 — worth reading at the register when St Mary's 1895 pages are next open; possibly connected to a marriage.