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Research in Other Countries => New Zealand => New Zealand Completed Requests => Topic started by: Thamesite2017 on Monday 28 February 11 02:39 GMT (UK)
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Looking for info on Miss M E Sheedy who was a t Thames for a short while
I see some mentions on Papers Past, for Kumara 1885 at a Wellington enquiry she was dispenser
Which seems to fit as she was Dispenser at Aucland Hosp before arriving in Thames
In 1893 and 1896 electoral roll there is a Margaret Sheedy who is MAtron at Kumara..so ??same person
1911 ERoll the MArgaret Sheedy is married woman.
I thought I had her death at Southland 1960 but the one there was married
maiden name SOTHERN
http://www.southlanddc.govt.nz/cemetery-search/CemeteryRecord/12949
Anyone following this surname?? or find some alternate burials
ALSOOOO, does anyone know what the DISPENSER was
It would seem from newsppaer records that they are incharge of the hospital especially pre 1890s..in charge of staff etc and ??are they the obvious..dispenser of drugs??? or is that a red herring
BYe
Althea
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Dispenser has different meanings at different times, but in this context, and at that time it meant a dispenser of medicines.
emily
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Hi Althea,
Have you seen this in Paperspast?
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0c24/
Cheers Janette
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Hi Janette
had missed that one, had her arrival and resignation...stroppy laundress!!!
Interesting that when she cam the role of Matron was given more authority and that included control of many departments in cluding the washing..obviously it didn't go down well with all staff!!!
Bye
Althea
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Hi Althea,
I wonder if this is her,just look at her costume ::) a scarlet cake-walk cape
it sounds like a retired matron
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0c25/
Cheers Janette
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sounds very likely
strange how a search at papers past doesn't always show anything thenanother its all go..I think sometimes I make things too narrow
Will go and check some more electoral rolls..maybe she wasn't too old to get married and found Prince CHarming at the ball!!!!!!!!!
Bye
Althea
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Hi Althea
The last paragraph of this item (http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OSWCC19300325.2.16) may be germane.
Added: And surely this (http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=WCT18841016.2.8) must be another Margaret Sheedy? :)
Simon
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I think my previous post is incorrect, because the Otautau 'Miss M Sheedy' was a probationer only a short while (http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OSWCC19290813.2.8) before. Sorry.
Simon
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Intersting, the Otautau connection, maybe she is the daughter of the married Margaret Sheedy that I found, mentioned above.
The Kumara incident is still possible 1884, then Wellington1885, Auckland and Thames by 1889 then back Kumara 1893-6..but where then
Appears other Sheedy's Kumara area..and given a relatively uncommon name..maybe all related.
There are some passenger arrivals that may fit, maybe I'll start there rather than the death!!
BYe
Althea
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There are quite a few passenger arrivals,3 generations of Margaret Sheedy's in one family ::)
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0c28/
Cheers Janette
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Hello Althea....Just guesswork but there's a possibility that the Nurse M. Sheedy mentioned in the 1920's newspapers is Mary Sheedy. She's mentioned in the Nurses Register of 1927 as having qualified in 1925 in Riverton. And she's also mentioned in the Midwives Register of 1929 as having qualified as a mid-wife in 1928. Happy to shoot lo-res scans of the NZ Gazette to you if you want.
No mention of Matron Sheedy in the first ten years of the Register (1901-1910). Maybe she was out of the nursing profession by then. Or possibly the Register wasn't all that accurate in it's first few years.
And, for what it's worth, when I was researching the Sheehan family I ended up with half a dozen notices relating to various Sheedy's. I'm fairly sure nothing relates to Matron Sheedy but it's no problem to shoot those to you, if you want. More grist for the mill.
Regards
Beg
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HI Beg
Yes I think that I won't get further with Matron Sheedy at present.
When the registration act came in I suspect alot of these earlier Matrons didn't continue, meet the same standards. Looking at that register alot of nurses were also coming in from England.
Bye
Althea