Category: Ancestral Women

  • Maria Joy, 1843-1894

    Paternal 2nd great-Grandmother Maria was born in 1843 in Tottenham, Middlesex, to William and Maria, their first child. William was from Sandgate, a village near Folkestone, Kent, Maria was a Londoner. He was working as a gardener in Tottenham when they married and Maria had been working in Gray’s Inn as a dressmaker. It was…

  • Remembering Nellie

    Remembering Nellie

    Honouring my great-grandmother Nellie Sinclair, nurse.