This is a guest post connected with our work on Keighley’s Supplementary Volume, under the proposal to add further names in 2024, the centenary of the original roll of honour. Supported by the National Lottery’s Heritage Fund, our project explains the reason for adding more names and the process by which the roll of honour … Read more
Voluntary Aid Detachment page International Women’s Day Nurse. Voluntary Aid Detachment, St. John Ambulance Brigade. Early life: Born September 22nd 1881 the only child of Thomas and Priscilla Rycroft, Elizabeth Ellen was baptised August 12th 1883 in the Parish of St. John’s, Great Marsden in East Lancashire. Sadly Priscilla died aged 21 before her … Read more
Voluntary Aid Detachment page International Women’s Day Nursing Sister, St John Ambulance Brigade. Voluntary Aid Detachment. Early life: Susan was born Susan Wells Morfett in Cambridgeshire in 1856. Little is known of her early life, but we know she married Tom Hare Creek of Oakworth in 1875. The banns were read out here at … Read more
Voluntary Aid Detachment page International Women’s Day Nurse, Voluntary Aid Detachment, St. John Ambulance Brigade. Early life: Isabella was born on the 17th of January 1886 and her birth was registered in the first quarter of the year in Keighley. Her parents were Richard and Martha Ellen Waller. She was baptised on the 6th … Read more