Women at Work

Norah Penelope Adamson 1881-1905 from Hetton le Hole, County Durham - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 3 minute read.

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Jane Atkinson Aldridge 1868-1947 from Lancaster, Lancashire – Accident, No Descendants, Women at Work, The Mount School. 6 minute read.

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Fanny Sophia Austen 1821-1904 from Ryde, Isle of Wight – No Descendants, Women at Work, Refuges for Fallen Women (Essex). 4 minute read.

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Elizabeth Agnes 'Lizzie' Beckwith 1878-1905 from Lambeth, Surrey - Women at Work. 2 minute read.

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Annie Binks 1871-1964 from South Shields, County Durham - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 4 minute read.

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Agnes Jane Susan Bonham 1837-1906 from Ballintaggert, County Kerry, Ireland - Women at Work. 2 minute read.

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Edith Wilkie Borrowdale 1876-1924, Isabella Borrowdale, later Isabella Carr 1878-1923 and Ethel Borrowdale, later Ethel Richardson 1883-? from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland - No Descendants (Edith), Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 10 minute read.

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Mary Ann Sanders Burgess, later Mary Ann Sanders Coombe 1864-1940 from Woodbury Salterton, Devon - Women at Work, Refuges for Fallen Women (Exeter). 6 minute read.

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Anne Hemsley (Annie) Buttercase 1864-1928 from Largo, Fife, Scotland - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Hospital. 2 minute read.

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Margaret Cameron, later Margaret Tyer 1863-1943 from Elie, Fife, Scotland - Accident, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 5 minute read.

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Bridget Carroll, later Bridget Pattenden 1861-1935 from Deptford, Kent - Alcoholism, Domestic Abuse, Lawbreaking, Women at Work, St. Joseph's Inebriate Reformatory. Warning, this story includes an account of domestic abuse. 9 minute read.

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Dorothy Margaret Cash 1885-1964 from Wandsworth, Surrey – No Descendants, Women at Work, The Mount School. 2 minute read​.

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​Anne ‘Annie’ Clay 1865-1956 from Midsomer Norton, Somerset - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 6 minute read.

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Ethel Lilian May Coombe 1889-1940 from Exeter, Devon – No Descendants, Women at Work, Refuges for Fallen Women (Exeter). 6 minute read.

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Ellen Daintree 1860-1954 from Somersham, Huntingdonshire - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 2 minute read.

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Lydia Dorothy Deag 1889-1966 from Walthamstow, Essex - Disability, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 3 minute read.

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Mary Deakins c. 1882-? from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland - Women at  Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 2 minute read.

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Mary Priscilla Douglas, later Mary Priscilla Dean 1890-1978 and Ellen Susan Douglas 1894-1946 Walthamstow, Essex - Disability, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 4 minute read.

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Ethel Fraser 1874-?1958 from Leeds, Yorkshire - No Descendants, Women at War, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 8 minute read.

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Mary Hannah ‘Minnie’ Garrett, later Mary Hannah Cheyne 1867-1943 from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland – Child Mortality, No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 10 minute read.

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Alice Mary Gentle 1891-1961 from Trumpington, Cambridgeshire – Disability, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 3 minute read.

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Frances Gubbins, later Frances Smith 1895-1943 from Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland – Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 2 minute read.

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Sarah Hall, later Sarah Barry 1886-1818 from Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland – No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 4 minute read.

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Ella Hay, later Ella Strickland 1876-1966 from Chester-le-Street, Durham – Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 6 minute read.

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Lillie Robinson Hodgson, later Lillie Robinson Gundry 1888-1942 and Hilda Hodgson 1894-? from Easingwold, Yorkshire - Disability, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 13 minute read.

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Evelyn Altham Jackson, later Evelyn Altham Lowe 1877-1964 from Brinley, Cambridgeshire - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 3 minute read.

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The Leighton Sisters from Herne Hill, Lambeth, Surrey Ada Florence 1870-1863, Frances Mary 1871-1970, Caroline Jessie 1874-1965, Lottie Matilda 1877-1964 and Gertrude Fanny 1880-1931 - Mental Health, No Descendants, Women at Work. 15 minute read.

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Mary Ann Lewis 1828-? from Carhampton, Somerset - Disability, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Exeter). 9 minute read.

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Frances Emma Ludlam, 1871-1916 from Walton on the Hill, Surrey - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 6 minute read.

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Frances Amelia MacDonald 1842-1910 from West Alvington, Devon – No Descendants, Women at Work, Refuges for Fallen Women (Staffordshire). 4 minute read.

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Wilhelmina Morris 1870-1944 from Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 5 minute read.

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Anna Peach 1831-1890 from Yeovil, Somerset - Disability, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Exeter). 8 minute read.

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Edith Elizabeth Peacock 1892-1977 from Bedford, Bedfordshire - Disability, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 9 minute read.

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Alma Sophie Pooley, later Alma Sophie Hersee 1889-1981 and Hilda Mary Pooley, later Hilda Mary Childs 1887-1941 from Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire - Disability, Lawbreaking, No Descendants (Alma), Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 5 minute read.

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Amelia Pressly 1881-1978 from Aberdeen, Scotland - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital.  3 minute read.

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Florence Dent Priestman 1885-1972 and Margaret Priestman 1885-1930 from Hull, Yorkshire – Activism, No Descendants, Suicide, Women at Work, The Mount School. Please note that this story includes an account of a suicide. 8 minute read.

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Rose Punnett 1888-1930 from Townsville, Australia - Disability, Illegitimacy, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 11 minute read.

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Winifred Alice Reid 'Reidie' 1891-1969 from Leytonstone, Essex - No Descendants, Women at Work. 3 minute read.

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Jessie Russell, later Jessie Burrow c.1865-? Cobham, Kent - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 10 minute read.

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Emily Ann Smither, later Emily Ann Southby 1886-1955 from Lewisham, Kent - Disability, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 6 minute read

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Annie Emma Spratt, later Annie Emma Shapcott 1892-1978 from Walworth, Surrey - Disability, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 10 minutes read.

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The Tangye Girls Sarah Tangye, later Sarah Price 1845-1932 from Illogan, Cornwall; Annie Jayne Tangye 1861--1947 from Birmingham, Worcestershire; Barbara Catherine Tangye, later Barbara Catherine Smith 1904-1991 from Kings Norton, Worcestershire – No Descendants, Women at Work, The Mount School. 8 minute read.

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Elizabeth Udey c.1826-1868 from Menheniot Cornwall – Disability, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Exeter). 2 minute read.

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Sarah Mildred Vernall 1889-1954 from Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex - Disability, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 5 minute read.

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Margaret Anderson Watkins later Margaret Anderson Moffat 1874-1966 from South Shields, Durham – No Descendants, Sickness, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 5 minute read.

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Mary Ann Whitbread 1880-1963 from Meridan, Warwickshire – Mental Health, Women at Work, Refuges for Fallen Women (Edgbaston). 8 minute read

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Amy Berta Minto Wilson 1883-1978 and Alice Victoria Minto Wilson 1885-1964 from Walthamstow, Essex – No Descendants, Women at Work, VAD Personnel, The Mount School. 3 minute read.

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Euphemia Wright, later Euphemia Cook 1867-1946 from Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland - Accident, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 3 minute read.

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Nellie Wright c.1873-? from Scotland - Women at  Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 2 minute read.

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Georgina Wyche 1875-1901 from Highbury, London - Mental Health, No Descendants, Suicide, Women at Work. Warning, this story includes an account of suicide. 5 minute read.

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There are also stories about women at work on the pages relating to the Cheshire County Training College, The Grange School of Housewifery and on the VAD Personnel​ page.