Alice Clarke was born in 1862 at Waimate North.
In 1885 she married Cecil Richard Day Kemp (born 1858 at Kerikeri) — continuing the deep intertwining of the Clarke and Kemp families that had begun when her uncles Henry Tacy and William both married Kemp daughters in 1852.
Cecil Kemp farmed the 'Children's Land' at Kerikeri — the block of land purchased from Māori by the seven missionaries in 1831 (including George Clarke), and which over the decades had been largely consolidated in the Kemp family's hands.
By 1889 Cecil had acquired the original 393-acre block from his father; that land is now the business area of Kerikeri. He also bought, in 1894, a 760-acre block on the west side of Bull's Road from Hopkins Clarke.
Cecil and Alice briefly farmed at Dunmore and then moved to Masterton.
They had five children:
- Winifred Emily (1888–1974),
- Sophia Marianne (1891–1970),
- Lucy Martha (1893–1952),
- Mildred (1895–1947), and
- Dorothy Annie (1900–1947).