Immigrant from Austria

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  I came across this woman in a small village in Kent, in the 1921 census. I now know that she married a local man in Cranbrook in 1906, aged 22, giving no occupation, but in 1911 she was monthly nurse and later a district nurse and midwife.
  Would there have been any particular reason for her to have left Vienna in approx 1904? To train as a nurse? In which case, what was she doing in Cranbrook. They had a daughter in 1907 and by 1921 had moved to Goodnestone, where she was the district nurse. I think they probably moved back to Mid Kent about 1924.
   Any thoughts please?

[Annie65115]

What we now call Austria isn't necessarily what was known as Austria then. So unless you have the name of a town/village, don't assume that she came from what we would now call Austria - she could have come from anywhere in the Austro-Hungarian empire.

My grandmother's partner (after she was widowed) said he was from Austria, but it appears that his place of birth is actually currently in modern-day Ukraine. He was Jewish, and came to the UK some time between 1901 - 1911; large parts of central Europe were not easy places to be Jewish, even then. Any idea if something similar might apply to your woman?

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  She gave her birthplace as Austria, Vienna in censuses, but that could be for simplicity! I have found nothing to make me think she was Jewish and she married in the Anglican church, but again it could be the easiest thing, if she was alone here.