Lawder, Florence Olivia
Biographical
| Registration number | 463 |
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| Surname | Lawder |
| First name(s) | Florence Olivia |
| Address(es) | 66 Britannia Road North, Southsea, Portsmouth |
| Date of registration | 7 March 1890 |
| Qualifications | Certificate, Adenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge 1885-6; District Nurse Portsmouth 1887 to date |
Personal details
| Date of birth | 1860 |
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| Place of birth | Roscommon, Ireland |
| Maiden name | Lawder |
| Family details | Daughter of Alonzo Lawder and his wife Mary, nee MacDermott. Florence had seven sisters and three brothers. Her father was a landowner and branches of the Lawder family owned 1,800 acres in Roscommon in the 1870's. Florence was a younger member of the family, and her mother died in 1872 when Florence was twelve, and her father in 1884, after which she came to England to train as a nurse. |
| Date of death | 15th April 1908 |
| Place of death | Portsmouth |
| Additional personal details | In 1891 nursing at Portsea Island; address 1907 20 Elm Grove, Southsea; address at time of decease in 1908 The Borough of Portsmouth Lunatic Asylum. Age 48; effects 2,152.5s.3d |
Professional details
| Work experience | Adenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge (Pro) 1885-86; District Nurse Portsmouth 1887-92; Priv.Nursing Home & Inst. Southsea (Lady Supt) 1892 to 1908 |
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| Professional activities | MRBNA |
| Sources | Register of Nurses (RBNA 4/1) - Royal British Nurses' Association Records, King's College London Archives 1891 census Directory of Registered Nurses 1902 Free BMD - www.freebmd.org.uk Ancestry - www.freebmd.org.uk Connacht Landed Estates Project - landedestates.nuigalway.ie |