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Alice Quince was born Nov. 1, 1894 in New York, New York daughter of  William Quince (born 1854 New York , died 10  Nov 1937 in Richmond County, NY)   and  Margaret Purley (born 1865 England and died betwen 1897 and 1904)  In the 1900 census for New York,  Alice and her siblings William (born Oct 1890) and Bella (born Oct 1892)  were inmates  of the Five Points House of Industry.    In 1904  Alice and Bella were sent via the Orphan Train to Sidney, Iowa.   Alice went  into the home of James and Sarah Easley.  In the 1910 census Alice is still listed in that househould.  Sometime between 1910  and 1920  Alice returned to New York city and in the 1920 census is living with her brother William Quince in Brooklyn New  York.    Alice was married to Claus Victor Swanson in 1913 and had a daughter Margaret Elizabeth born in 1915. They lived in  Chappaqua, NY.   Claus was born in 1894 in Sweden and came to the U.S. in 1903.   For undisclosed reasons, Alice left her  husband and child in 1916.   Claus remarried in 1925 to a woman named Martha from Denmark.   Margaret was living with  them according to the 1930 census.   At that time, they had no other children.  According to the Social Security Death Index,   Alice Quince died July 12, 1994 in Hazlet, Monmouth, New Jersey