Alice Ford (née Selwyn) was the Schoolmaster's daughter and the mother of Owen Ford.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Alice was born in House of Dreams in 1832 to Persis and John Selwyn, one year after her mother came from England to Four Winds.
- "Alice - Alice - the first baby ever born in that little house. No baby ever brought more joy! I've dandled her a hundred times. It was from my knee she took her first steps alone. Can't I see her mother's face watching her - and it was near sixty years ago."
- —Captain Jim about Alice.[src]
She was raised there along with her younger siblings until her family moved to Charlottetown. Alice was 14 when they moved.
Marriage[]
In the 1850s, she met an Ontario man named Ford and fell in love with him. A few years later they married. Their only son, Owen, was born in the late 1850s. Alice always told little Owen stories about her family and her birthhouse in Four Winds.
- "My mother was born and spent her childhood here, you know. She used to talk a great deal to me of her old home."
- —Alice's son Owen Ford about his mother.
Unfortunately, Alice died in the early 1860s, when Owen was only a boy. She never met Leslie and her grandchildren, Kenneth and Persis.
Personality[]
Etymology[]
Alice is a female given name of Old German origin and means noble or exalted.
Appearances[]
Book appearances
- Anne's House of Dreams (mentioned only)