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hi, trying to find out what happened to my g-grandmother mary schofield - she had my grandmother adopted and returned to nursing.  A distant family member has given me a newspaper photo of her in uniform with the caption that she was joining King Edward VII hospital windsor as a matron.  Unfortunately the photo was clipped out and the relative doesn't know what paper it was in or the date.  Mary was born in 1875 and is middleaged (50ish?) in the picture. The Reading records office is meant to hold staff records for this hospital and I would be eternally grateful if anyone is doing their own search of the records, if they let me know whether there is any info on her.

Mary Annora Schofield was my great grandmother.  In 1915 she is in Bath but then I lose sight of her in the records.  The family story is that by the late 1920s she was employed as a nurse in Cheltenham as we think that my grandmother, who had been given up for adoption, went there in 1930 to see her.

If anyone has a Post Office or Kellys directory for Cheltenham for the late 1920s or early 30s, or even access to electoral registers around that time,  I would be really grateful if they could see if they could find her.   

My ancestor Eliza Green was born in Cotheridge most probably in 1812.  I think her parents may have been Sarah and John (records after 1813 are on the Genealogist and show a Henry Green born later who may have been a brother) but need to find her baptism record to confirm.  If any one is going to Worcs Records Office, I beleive they have the microfiche for the church, St Leonards, at Cotheridge and would be most grateful if you could have quick look (and for any siblings if poss).

Thanks - best I get down to the NA to find out when he joined up and when he was discharged(census shows him as a labourer in 1861 and by 1881, he's back doing manual work in Bury again).

Thanks!