Alice Elizabeth Holmes
Alice was born in October quarter 1851 in Birmingham to William Holmes and Caroline (nee Whateley). She was christened at St John, Deritend and Bordesley, Warwick. She married John Dagwell, who was English. The marriage has now been found between Cornelius Dagwell and Alice Holmes on 13th June 1877 in King's County. It seems he was born in Portsea, Hamposhire, son of Cornelius Dagwell, and Ann Chase.
Alice Emigrated from Liverpool on the City of London, arriving in New York on 2nd of August 1870. John became a naturalised American on 17th October 1881. John was an expressman, a kind of delivery man in 1881.
They had at least one child, Ella, born in 1879. In 1880, they were living in Brooklyn with younger brother Samuel H Holmes. John is still in New York in 1883, where he witnesses Samuel's naturalisation, the last he is seen anywhere.
The family effectively disappears after this. My grandmother's notes only say New York, and there is no surviving correspondence. If they did not emigrate further, perhaps John died and Alice remarried. I have not been able to locate them. Ella appears in 1895 in Newark, and in 1900 in Glen Ridge Borough, Essex County, New Jersey.