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Alice Zollinger was born in Aleppo in 1867, and in 1886 she married the British Consul to Aleppo, a Patrick Henderson. She was a young bride, and her husband was 23 years older than her. Their son Patrick Jr. was born in Aleppo in 1887, but within a year, Patrick Henderson senior was transferred to a diplomatic post in Cadiz in SW Spain. His wife Alice followed him in mid-1888 with their baby Patrick, then 19 months old. She decided to break the journey in Marseilles to give birth to their daughter Alice. Unfortunately the mother Alice died in childbirth with her daughter Alice in Marseilles in late 1888, and their father had the task of bringing up two infants. He continued to live in Cadiz with his two young children. Then, in the fall of 1894 Patrick Henderson Sr. went on home leave from Cadiz. While in London, England, he then decided to commit suicide. The daughter Alice was brought up by a diplomat colleague of Patrick's in Cadiz, Spain, until she could go to boarding school in Brighton, England. As an adult she emigrated to New Zealand, where she passed away unmarried in 1987. Patrick Jr. Also grew up in a boarding school in England, and joined the Royal Navy in 1902, and was commissioned in 1903, and reached a very high rank in the Navy. He died in Amersham, Bucks., England in 1966. Of his two daughters, the elder, Patricia, took on a teaching job in Cairo, Egypt, where she contracted polio, and died at the age of 23. The younger daughter Jean Mary Henderson, married Neville John Armitage, and it is their son Quentin who has provided the initial information on this branch. Then in 2015 it was Patrick Henderson's daughter Jean Lefroy (Armitage) who contacted Marcel, and kindly provided a considerable amount of history on Alice Zollinger and Patrick Henderson, and their family.
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