mary schofield, matron at King Edward VII Hospital

[rosie99]

The right Miss Schofield who was Matron ie Mabel is doing that job at the right hospital on the pre war register, she was born 1895 as I mentioned earlier.  I can't see a Mary that would fit the 1875 one

ADDED
There is a post a few years ago about her here
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=439520.

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.

[Regorian]

Yes Rosie the 1895 Mabel should be right. Matron was alive 1950's. My mother still knew her, through the re-unions.

I remember ex nurse Vinicombe, she visited us once at Wexham, so before 1958. Tall, slim and very impressive. Must have been in her 40's by then.
 
Again, why can't I post the photo?

[rosie99]

You can't post a photo because it is on a 'look up' board - Berkshire lookup requests 

[Regorian]

Ah! Thanks, Rosie. I'll get round that.

[chempat]

This is the Mary A Schofield, 1875, after marrying Joseph Tompkins
Deaths December quarter 1961  Mary A Tompkins  age 86  in Bedford

[Regorian]

She could not be the Matron, Chempat. An 1895 Mabel has to be the one. I have looked and there are several of them. She was Matron in the 1930's and 1940's.   

[candrjm]

The Mabel Schofield recorded on the 1939 register in Windsor is recorded as Mabel A Schofield and has a birth date of 19th Aug 1895.
There is this baptism with that birth date (but parents are Julia and Horace):
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L96P-67KW?i=550
Marriage:

Marriages Sep 1894
Metcalfe    Julia         Pontefract    9c   167    
Schofield    Horace         Pontefract    9c   167




Working back from this posting on the other thread:
Hi,
Do  you know her Birth & Death date?. There is a Mary Schofield who died Bath 1962 aged 91. Maybe you know this but just in case.
Jim
Cheltenham


this looks to be the probate for this Mary in 1962:
https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=schofield&yearOfDeath=1962&page=5#calendar

Probate to Percy Gordon Schofield

Possible birth:
SCHOFIELD, PERCY  GORDON      MMN BENCE     
GRO Reference: 1903  M Quarter in READING  Volume 02C  Page 362

possible marriage:

Marriages Sep 1898 
BENCE    Mary        Chippenham    5a   121   
Schofield    Frank Arthur         Chippenham    5a   121   

Possible census for Mary & Percy in 1911:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWTG-T4P

Possibly Frank and Mary in 1901 census:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSJC-6Z9

Possibly Frank in 1911 census:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWQD-7TK


Possible Mary Bence in 1891 census (working as a Nurse):
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:3PC7-LZM

Possible Mary Bence in 1881 census:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q278-VYM5


But no birth for a Mabel Bence or a Mabel Schofield found that would fit with birth 19/08/1895

[chempat]

Mary Annora Schofield, 1875, appears to have had 3 illegitimate children, according to some trees on Ancestry, before marrying Mr Tompkins. clovis was perhaps only aware of one, her grandmother. She is a nurse in certain censuses etc

Also, clovis might have found all this out since 2010, and worked out that she had been given the wrong information about her becoming a matron in Windsor.

[rosie99]

Moderator comment: this post refers to the photo here

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=821393.0


What a lovely photo 

Rosie