Biography of Alice Vince

Alice was born on 15 June 1867 in Shipdham, Norfolk, England. In the 1871 census she's 3 years old and living at the Swan Inn, Shipdham, with her parents William (an inn-keeper & tailor) & Hannah, brothers Walter (10) & William (5), sister Margaret (7), cousin Charlotte Pease (domestic servant), & lodgers Joseph & James Matthews (cattle drovers).

By 1881 the family have moved to Excelsior Cottage, Shipdham and she has a new sister Annie. In the 1891 census she's living with her mother and uncle John in Pulham St Mary Magdalene, Norfolk.

On 9 October 1894 at Pulham St Mary the Virgin, Norfolk, she married Frederick Pinborough, a butcher from Suffolk. The 1901 census shows them living in the parish of St Margaret, Ipswich, Norfolk with two daughters Winifred (6) & Hilda (4), and her elderly mother Hannah (69). They had 4 children while living in Suffolk, but one (Beatrice) died a few days after birth. Their fifth child (Walter) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Some time after her marriage before emigrating to the USA they joinde the Church of Latter Day Saints and became Mormons, who funded their emigration. Alice sailed from Liverpool to Boston on the SS Arabic on 22 June 1906 with her husband Frederick & children Winifred (11), Hilda (9) & baby John (1). They arrived at Boston on 30 June 1906; their final destination was Salt Lake City, where they settled.

In the 1910 USA census the family are living at Clift Avenue, Salt Lake City Ward 5, Salt Lake, Utah, USA with children Winnie (15), Hilda (13) & John (5). By 1920 they've moved to House 314, K Street, Salt Lake City Ward 4 with four children; by 1930 they're at House 281, J Street, Salt Lake City Ward 4, living with John & his wife Ruth (just married), and Walter.

Alice's husband died in 1939; Alice died a couple of years later on 18 July 1941. Her orbituary records some of her life story.