Ann(e) Rice / Sister Mary Felix

[JosiePie]

Hi, I've just stumbled across the fact that my gt aunt x4 became a nun in the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in Glasgow in 1873.  She was born in Aberdeen in 1849 to James Rice and Jemima Wilson and died in 1898.  Does anyone know anything about the convent and the nuns?  I've found her in the 1871 census and she's listed as a servant at the convent.  I've not found a listing for either her birth or death though.

thanks for any help!
Jo

[bleckie]

Hi Jo

Have a look at the link below could be a starting point

http://www.franciscansisters.org.uk/spirituality_ourhistory.htm

Yours Aye
BruceL

[JosiePie]

Thank you for that link! I've emailed them, so fingers crossed they can help a wee bit!

Jo

[hume]

Hi Jo,

Although I don't see Ann's birth, several of her brothers and sisters are listed on the Catholic birth records at SP. The children born after 1855 also show (as normal) in the civil registers.

This is the Rice family in the 1861 census:

Address: 21 Windy Wynd, St Nicholas', Aberdeen
James Rice, m, head, 41, comb maker broker, b. Rutherglen
Jemima Rice, f, wife, 34, -, b. Elgin
Robert Rice, m, son, 15, ap[prentice] tailor, b. Aberdeen
James Rice, m, son, 14, ap[prentice] comb maker, b. Aberdeen
Ann Rice, f, dau., 12, scholar, b. Aberdeen
Jessie Rice, f, dau., 10, scholar, b. Aberdeen
Barbara Rice, f, dau., 8, scholar, b. Aberdeen
William Rice, m, son, 3, -, b. Aberdeen

I also managed to find Ann's birth in Glasgow in 1898:

Ann Rice, aged 48, domestic servant (single)
d. September 11th 1898 at the Franciscan Convent, 58 Charlotte Street, Glasgow
parents - James Rice, tailor (operative) (deceased) and Jemima Rice m.s. Wilson (also deceased)
registered by Mary Keigan?, school teacher

hume

[JosiePie]

Thank you so much for finding her death - did you find this on Scotland's People? Strange that she's listed as a domestic servant when I've found evidence of her taking Holy Orders - although it wasn't an official record, so could well be wrong! Hopefully I will get an answer to the email that I sent to the link below!

Jo

[hume]

Hi Jo,

The record was found on ScotlandsPeople just using the details you provided in your first post.

I hope you do get a return e-mail with information of Ann's life.

hume

[JosiePie]

  That website is frustrating sometimes! I've tried all kids of combinations to find her death, and nothing appeared!  Thanks for all your help - still waiting for a reply to my email 

Jo

[maggbill]

Hi Jo,

Hope that you have better luck than I had with emailling these sisters.  My father's sister was training to be a nun in the 1930's in Glasgow, but she left due to ill health and died age 31 of TB.  I am not absolutely sure that she was with them, but have a faint memory of my father mentioning the Franciscans...  In the events section of their website, they have a sister celebrating her 70 years of being a nun - thought she might even have been a companion of my Aunt.  Was very disappointed that the sisters didn't reply, even to say "Sorry, can't help"....  One thing though, my aunt was listed as "School teacher" on her death entry, and I then had great help from the Uni who had the old archives of "NOtre Dame Teaching College".... where she did her teacher training, so got some  info on her after all..

Best of luck!
Maggs