Mary Seacole

This is the census return for Mary Seacole c.1805-1881. Mary Seacole worked tirelessly during the Crimean war nursing and caring for soldiers injured on the battlefields of the Crimean War (1853–6). Until the 1970s, historians have exclusively focused on the contribution of her contemporary Florence Nightingale.

Registration Sub-District 2B St John Paddington. Civil Parish, Township or Place: Paddington, 1881. Catalogue ref: RG 11/16

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The undermentioned houses are situate[d] within the Boundaries of
City or Municipal Borough of Parliamentary Borough of Ecclesiastical parish or district of
Paddington, Marylebone Marylebone St. John’s
No. of

Schedule

 

Rd., St., No. Name of

House

Houses:

Occupied.

Un-occupied

Name &

Surname

Of each

person

Relation to Head of Family Condition as to

Marriage

Age last

Birthday

Rank

Profession

Occupation

Where born Deaf/dumb

Blind

Imbecile/idiot

Lunatic

94 2, Cambridge St. 1 Maria J. Gardiner Head Widow 65 None New York, USA America
George F. ditto Son Unmarried 32 Civil Engineer London
Mary Large Cousin         “ 60 Ireland, Cork
Harriet Gorway Servant 67 Housekeeper London
95 3     Do.  Do. 1 Sarah Newton Head Married 71 None Middlesex Poplar
Mary Collingwood Widow 52 Nurse Surrey
Caroline Hayes Servant Unmarried 62 Cook Middlesex St. Giles
Mary Seacole Lodger Widow 71 Independent Kingston Jamaica W.I.
Rose Boydon Visitor Unmarried 46 Do. Do.
96 4    Do. Do. 1 James William Chandler Head Married 45 Victualler Middlesex, Westminster
Harriet Do. Wife     “ 44 Do. Marylebone
Eliza Do. Daughter Unmarried 17 Surrey, Lambeth
Charlotte Randon Visitor      “ 40 Servant Nottinghamshire, Stapleford
Alfred Worsop Do.      “ 21 Bat Maker Do. Nottingham
Mary Donelly Servant Unmarried 18 Bar maid Surrey, Bagshot
 

 

Ellen Clark Do.      “ 27 Servant Norfolk, Besthorpe
97 5 Do.  Do. 1 John Roberts Head Married

 

50 Lodging house keeper North Wales. [Bala]
Mary Do. Wife Married 41 Derbyshire, [Clowne]
John Son Unmarried 4 Middlesex
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