SIXTH GENERATION


38. Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse was born in 1837. He died in 1892. He was married to Princess Alice of England on 1 Jul 1862 in Osborne House, Isle of Wight.

39. Princess Alice of England was born on 25 Apr 1843 in Buckingham Palace. She died on 14 Dec 1878 in Darmstadt--of diphtheria.


Children were:

child19 i. Princess Victoria of Hesse.
child ii. Elizabeth (Ella) of Hesse was born in 1864. She died in 1918 killed by Bolsheviks. Her body rests in the Russian Orthodox church in Jerusalem.
child iii. Irene of Hesse was born in 1866. She died in 1953.
child iv. Grand Duke Ernest Ludwig of Hesse was born in 1868. He died in 1937.
child v. Friedrich of Hesse (*H) was born in 1870. He died in 1873.
child vi. Alix of Hesse Empress of Russia was born on 6 Jun 1872 in Darmstadt. She died on 16 Jul 1918 in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
child vii. Marie of Hesse was born in 1874. She died in 1878 in diphtheria.

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