Relocation

Alice Robertson Carr was born in Roanoke, VA, on 10/03/1899. The family of her father William Watts Carr had deep roots in VA. Despite this, he seems to have had some wanderlust, as he moved the family to KY by about 1897 and to MT by the late-1900s.

Alice's earliest years were spent on a farm near Big Lick, VA, in Roanoke County. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1900; Census Place: Big Lick, Roanoke, Virginia; Roll: 1725; Page: 19; Enumeration District: 0070, accessed 05/10/2023.)

In 1910, Alice lived with her family on a farm outside of Sun River, MT, in the west central part of the state, 21 miles west of Great Falls. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1910; Census Place: Sun River, Cascade, Montana; Roll: T624_830; Page: 1b; Enumeration District: 0039; FHL microfilm: 1374843, accessed 05/10/2023.)

She resided in London, England in 1928, where she studied sculpture with Jose de Creeft. She would marry de Creeft in the spring of that year.

The sculptor Alice Robertson Carr de Creeft died in Santa Barbara, CA, on 08/02/1996 at the age of 96.

Parents

Her mother was Margaret "Madge" MacDougall (born 01/25/1870 in NY-d. 07/09/1965) and her father William Watts Carr (born 12/11/1867-d. 10/22/1930), who worked as a farmer and orchardist.

She had three siblings: Eva Sabine Carr (born 11/21/1897 in KY-d. 01/15/1992 in Alhambra, CA), George Watson Carr (born 10/03/1899 in VA-d. 12/24/1950 in Harris County, TX) and Dugald MacDougall Carr (born 04/1901 in Roanoke, VA-d. 05/16/1962 in Cincinnati, OH).

Spouse

She wed her sculpture teacher, José Mariano Facundo de Creeft (born 11/27/1884 in Guadalajara, Spain-d. 09/11/1982 in New York, NY) at the Parish Church of Saint Paul Covent Garden on 03/15/1928. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation City of Westminster Archives Centre; London, England; Westminster Church of England Parish Registers; Reference: STP/PR/3/17, accessed 05/10/2023.) The two drifted apart and divorced in 02/1939.

Biographical Notes

She traveled aboard the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique'sS.S. Paris between Le Havre, France, and New York, NY, between 05/29/1929 and 06/04/1929. Her permanent address at this time was a post office box in Selah, WA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1929; Arrival: New York, New York, USA; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Line: 7; Page Number: 21 Source Information: New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010, accessed 05/10/2023.)