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I can add some detail.

Alpha’s mother was Sarah Jane, she was born Hughes in 1853. In June 1872 she married Hugh Creighton, she married Arthur Pepper on May 15th 1882. Sarah died in July 1899 in Fulham London.



Alpha was born December 19th, 1882 West Derby Lancashire; Christening was January 2nd, 1883 St Peters Liverpool.

She lived with her father and mother in Hammersmith London in 1891 (Census).

She isn’t at her father’s address on the 1901 census.

October 14th 1906 landed in New York, she sailed from Liverpool (Oct 6th) on the ship Etruria, and she used the name Nan Pepper on the Passenger list.

It seems she adopted the name “Nan” in America.

Her father Arthur Pepper died January 12, 1908 at 37 Oxford Gardens Kennsington, he left her £95

February 16th, 1910 she married Arthur Von Der Donk Wait (1875-1955) his family were Dutch, United Methodist Church, Otsego, New York, United States

Her son Gale Pepper Wait was born January 10th, 1919 in New York (he died in 1997).

In the 1910 & 1920 census she lived in Orangetown Rockland NY, Same for the New York State census of 1925.

1928 She appears in the city directory in Nyack NY

November 1943 she appears in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index listed as “Nan Pepper Wait” daughter of Sarah Creighton & Arthur Pepper Her social security number was 113206918.

She is in New York on the 1930 & 1940 census records.

She died April 14th, 1945 NY Certificate Number 8710, using the name ‘Nan Wait”

<p class="MsoNormal">She is buried Sparkill, Rockland County, New York, United States of America

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