Royal Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb Poor (later The Royal School for the Deaf), Margate, Kent and The West of England Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Exeter, Devon

Please be aware that this page and the associated stories may contain historical terms related to disability that are not now considered to be appropriate. They are reproduced in context here to maintain the historical integrity of the period.

There is plenty of background information about the Schools for the Deaf here.

Elizabeth Allen 1830-1903 from Stourpaine Dorset - Disability, No Descendants, Schools for the Deaf (Exeter). 3 minute read.

Rose Amelia Bampton, later Rose Amelia Gausden 1891-1977 from Battersea, Surrey - Disability, No Descendants, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 6 minutes read.

Alice Maria Bourn 1891-? from Stockwell, Surrey - Disability, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 4 minute read.

Patience Bray 1832-1849 from Liskeard, Cornwall – Accident, Disability, No Descendants, Sickness, Schools for the Deaf (Exeter). 8 minute read.

Esther Mary Cluer 1889-1966 from Forest Hill, Surrey - Disability, No Descendants, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 8 minute read.

Mary Priscilla Douglas, later Mary Priscilla Dean 1890-1978 and Ellen Susan Douglas 1894-1946 Walthamstow, Essex - Disability, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 4 minute read.

Alice Mary Gentle 1891-1961 from Trumpington, Cambridgeshire – Disability, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 3 minute read.

Lillie Robinson Hodgson, later Lillie Robinson Gundry 1888-1942 and Hilda Hodgson 1894-? from Easingwold, Yorkshire - Disability, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 13 minute read.

Ida Muriel Elizabeth Johnstone 1890-1964 from India - Disability, Women at War, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 10 minutes read.

Mary Ann Lewis 1828-? from Carhampton, Somerset - Disability, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Exeter). 9 minute read.

Gertrude Frances Lincoln 1885-1966 from Mileham, Norfolk - Disability, No Descendants, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 14 minutes read.

Elizabeth Palmer 1830-1917 from Okehampton, Devon - Disability, No Descendants, Schools for the Deaf (Exeter). 3 minute read.

Winifred Redgrave 1892-1962 from Chertsey, Surrey – Accident, Disability, No Descendants, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 5 minute read.

Minnie Slingo, later Minnie Hunt 1892-1974 from Crookham, Hampshire - Disability, No Descendants, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 6 minute read.

Jessie Hannah Smith, later Jessie Hannah Willmott 1886-1971 from Hayes, Middlesex - Disability, No Descendants. 10 minute read.

Annie Emma Spratt, later Annie Emma Shapcott 1892-1978 from Walworth, Surrey - Disability, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 10 minutes read.

Ethel Maud Thorp 1890-1901 from Milstead, Kent – Disability, No Descendants, Sickness, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 3 minute read.

Elizabeth Udey c.1826-1868 from Menheniot Cornwall – Disability, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Exeter). 2 minute read.

Sarah Mildred Vernall 1889-1954 from Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex - Disability, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 5 minute read.