Category: Family History

  • Remembering Nellie

    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…