Today I am honouring my great-grandmother Ellen (Nellie) Sinclair, born 1875, died 1968. Nellie was born in West Ham, Essex, the fourth child, when her parents were both 28. Her father was an engine fitter and died when she was five. She became a nurse at the District Homeopathic Hospital in Holborn.
On 30 October 1909 she married “Nobby”, a printer, who was six years older than her. She had a daughter by him, my paternal grandmother, Barbara, four months later on Feb 28, 1910, who was my grandmother.
The 1911 census has her living at home with her husband and Barbara, who is 1 year old, and a young compositor as a boarder, in a four-room flat in Vartry Road, South Tottenham.
According to the electoral register they had moved to Isleworth and were living at 11 Stanley Rd in 1919.
Nellie registered again as a nurse on 19 September 1924 in London, qualification under rule 9 (1) (g)1.
„Nobby“ survived the First World War from 1914 to 1918, serving as a soldier in the army. Afterwards, he returned to compositing for printers. He died in 1929 of septicaemia due to a septic arm, aged 56.
According to the Register of Nurses of 1940 Nellie was living at 20, Lyncroft Gardens, Central Avenue, Hounslow, 10 minutes walk from her daughter, Barbara.
Nellie died on this day, March 7th, at 92 in South Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth, of bronchopneumonia, having been long confined to her bed, partially blind and with cerebral arteriosclerosis and Pagets disease.
1„in the case of a nurse who was at 1st November, 1916, engaged in actual practice and who produces the following evidences of knowledge and experience:–
(a) a certificate of good character;
(b) a certificate signed by a matron of a general hospital or an infirmary or by two medical men setting out that the applicant has been in attendance upon the sick in the capacity of a nurse for a period of not less than three years prior to the 1st November 1919; and
(c) a certificate signed by a registered nurse and by two medical men, one of whom shall be on the staff of a general hospital, setting out that the applicant has adäquat knowledge and experience of medical and surgical nursing and is competient to attend upon the sick in the capacity of a nurse:
Provided that the Council may require the applicant, as a condition precedent to registration, to present herself herself for special inquiry before a medical officer or officers appointed by the Council.“
Statutory Rules and Orders, 1923, No. 804
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