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Chambers, Helen

Biographical

Registration number872
SurnameChambers
First name(s)Helen
Address(es)

4 College Terrace, Harrow-on-the-Hill

Date of registration28 March 1890
Qualifications

Certificate, Queen Charlotte's Hospital,1885
N. I. Wigmore Street, 1886 - 1889
Private nurse

Personal details

Date of birth22 August 1850
Place of birthMarham, Norfolk
Maiden nameWinearls
Married nameChambers
Family details

Father - Farmer in Marham, Norfolk, 599 acre farm and 16 men
Helen at school in Kings Lynn in 1861

Date of death1929
Place of deathBrentford
Additional personal details

Married Richard Chambers, farmer, in Marham Norfolk in May 1870 aged 19
Son James Robert born in 1875 in Bury St. Edmunds
Helen and son living at Father's farm in 1881
Husband Richard, commission agent, living with mother in Bury St Edmunds in 1881
Living with son (now salesman) in Harlesden in 1911, now widowed

Professional details

Work experience

Queen Charlotte's Hospital, 1885
Wigmore Street Nursing Institution, 1886 - 1889
Private nurse

Additional professional details

Sick nurse in Harrow in 1891
Sick nurse at 22 de Vere Gardens, Kensington in 190 in home of retired major of Hussars

Sources

Register of Nurses (RBNA 4/1) - Royal British Nurses' Association Records, King's College London Archives

Census returns for 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901 and 1911
Free BMD

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