No Descendants

These women have no descendants to tell their stories, so we have preserved their memories here. You can access the stories by clicking on the women's names below.

Edith Ackerley 1892-1970, from Altrincham, Cheshire – No Descendants, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. 9 minute read.

Norah Penelope Adamson 1881-1905, from Hetton le Hole, County Durham - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 3 minute read.

Jane Atkinson Aldridge 1868-1947, from Lancaster, Lancashire – Accident, No Descendants, Women at Work, The Mount Sc hool . 6 minute read.

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

Fanny Sophia Austen 1821-1904, from Ryde, Isle of Wight – No Descendants, Women at Work, Refuges for Fallen Women (Essex). 4 minute read.

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

Marian Barker 1882-1942, from Boston, Lincolnshire - Child Mortality, No Descendants, Sickness. 4 minute read.

Rachel Virtue Barnes , later Rachel Virtue Raynold c.1818-1892, from Tarrant Monkton, Dorset – No Descendants, Women at Work, Dorchester Prison. 4 minute read.

Elizabeth May Barrows, later Elizabeth May Ing, afterwards Elizabeth May Barlow 1889-1959 from Denver, Norfolk and Sarah Jane Barrows, later Sarah Jane Southwood 1891-1961, from Edmonton, Middlesex – Disability, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 3 minute read.

Ellen Aitken Bayley 1892-1980, from Dalston, Middlesex – No Descendants, Suicide, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. Warning, this story includes an account of suicide. 4 minute read.

Ethel May Bayley 1892-1974, from Chesham, Buckinghamshire – No Descendants, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. 4 minute read.

Sarah Ellen Beck 1867-1916, from Drumillar, Co. Down – Lawbreaking, No Descendants, Women at Work, Linen Industry. 5 minute read.

Harriet Hardy, later Harriet Bazell c.1809-1884 from Minterne, Dorset and Ellen Bazell 1839-1918, from Dorchester, Dorset – No Descendants (Ellen), Women at Work, Dorchester Prison. 3 minute read.

Mary Beckett, later Mary Broomhall 1819-1903, - from Wem, Shropshire – No Descendants, Women at Work, 1819. 5 minute read.

Lilian Bell, later Lilian Birkett 1890-1913, from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland - No Descendants, Sickness, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 2 minute read.

Winifred Mary Bell 1889-1964, from Crayford, Kent - Disability, No Descendants, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 4 minute read.

Maria Bindon, later Maria Tylee 1835-1884, from Bathampton, Somerset - Illegitimacy, Lawbreaking, Murder, No Descendants, Prostitution. 4 minute read.

Jane Bingham, later Jane McDowell 1870-1938, from Ballyroney, Co. Down – No Descendants, Women at Work, Linen Industry. 3 minute read.

Annie Binks 1871-1964, from South Shields, County Durham - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 4 minute read.

Sarah Jane Birch 1882-1966 and Elizabeth Annie Birch, later Elizabeth Annie Buckley 1886-?, from Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire Emily Maud Birch, later Emily Maud George 1891-1961, from Chesham, Buckinghamshire - Disability, No Descendants (Sarah), Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 5 minute read.

Caroline Body, later Caroline Banwell, afterwards Caroline Phillips 1886-1944, from Biddisham, Somerset – No Descendants, Women at Work, Grange School of Housewifery. 4 minute read.

Edith Wilkie Borrowdale 1876-1924, from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 10 minute read.

Ellen/Helen Botting, later Ellen/Helen Miles 1863-1949, from Horsham, Sussex – No Descendants, Refuges for Fallen Women (Basingstoke). 3 minute read.

Edna Jane Bo(u)lton, later Edna Jane McFee, previously Edna Jane Ball, then Edna Jane Jopson 1866-1935, from Fenton, Staffordshire – No Descendants, Refuges for Fallen Women (Staffordshire). 6 minute read.

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

Maria Louisa Buckley 1890-1961, from Sandbach, Cheshire – No Descendants, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College 7 minute read.

Elsie Burrows 1890-1935, from Frodsham, Cheshire - No Descendants, Suicide, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. Warning, this story includes an account of suicide.12 minute read.

Ellen Clara Bush, later Ellen Clara Helps 1887-?, from Baltonsborough, Somerset – Child Mortality, Murder, No Descendants, Women at Work, Grange School of Housewifery. 7 minute read.

Harriet Hardy, later Harriet Bazell c.1809-1884, from Minterne, Dorset and Ellen Bazell 1839-1918 ,from Dorchester, Dorset – No Descendants (Ellen), Women at Work, Dorchester Prison. 3 minute read.

Anne Hemsley (Annie) Buttercase 1864-1928, from Largo, Fife, Scotland - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 2 minute read.

Pauline Mary Josephine Calazel 1876-1960, from Glasgow, Scotland – No Descendants, Women at Work, Grange School of Housewifery. 20 minute read.

Margaret Cameron, later Margaret Tyer 1863-1943, from Elie, Fife, Scotland - Accident, Women at Work. 5 minute read.

Dorothy Margaret Cash 1885-1964, from Wandsworth, Surrey – No Descendants, Women at Work, The Mount School. 2 minute read.

Anna Bella Castles 1869-1942, from Derrytagh, Co. Armagh – Emigration, No Descendants, Women at Work, Linen Industry. 9 minute read.

Isabel Cayley 1873-1957, from Scampston, Lincolnshire Lily Ann Cotter 1896-1954, from Tiverton, Devon – No Descendants, Women at Work, Grange School of Housewifery. 5 minute read.

Mary Chesters 1819-1858, from Wem, Shropshire – No Descendants, 1819. 3 minute read.

May Churchill Clapton 1894-1972, from Wandsworth, Surrey – No Descendants, Women at War, Voluntary Aid Detachment Personnel. 3 minute read.

Anne ‘Annie’ Clay 1865-1956, from Midsomer Norton, Somerset - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 6 minute read.

Elizabeth Clode aka Elizabeth Smith aka Elizabeth Whitchurch 1843-?, from Talaton, Devon – Lawbreaking, No Descendants, Dorchester Prison. 3 minute read.

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

Elizabeth Mary Collins 1891-1964, from Crewe, Cheshire – No Descendants, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. 3 minute read.

Ethel Lilian May Coombe 1889-1940, from Exeter, Devon – No Descendants, Women at Work, Refuges for Fallen Women (Exeter). 6 minute read.

Kate Coombs 1862-1882, from Falmer, Sussex – Lawbreaking, No Descendants, Sickness, Dorchester Prison. 8 minute read.

Lily Ann Cotter 1896-1954, from Tiverton, Devon – No Descendants, Women at Work, Grange School of Housewifery. 6 minute read.

Dulcie Martha Rose Cottle 1895-1956, from Radstock, Somerset – No Descendants, Women at Work, Grange School of Housewifery. 7 minute read.

Rebecca Cotton c.1765-1797, from Mottistone, Isle of Wight – Illegitimacy, No Descendants. 14 minute read.

Alice Jubilee Crouch 1887-1970, from Bristol, Somerset – No Descendants, Women at Work, Grange School of Housewifery. 3 minute read.

Eliza Crouch 1888-?, from Boscombe, Wiltshire - Disability, No Descendants, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 3 minute read.

Martha Croucher, later Martha Gates 1859-1894, from Boldre, Hampshire - Lawbreaking, No Descendants, Dorchester Prison. 6 minute read.

Ellen Daintree 1860-1954, from Somersham, Huntingdonshire - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 2 minute read.

Lydia Dorothy Deag 1889-1966, from Walthamstow, Essex - Disability, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 3 minute read.

Caroline Dewy, later Caroline Stedman 1819-1892, from Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk – No Descendants, 1819. 6 minute read.

Elizabeth Dixon 1819-1866, from Wallsend, Northumberland – Disability, No Descendants, 1819. 4 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.

Sarah Doyle, later Sarah Byrne 1870-?, from Banbridge, Co. Down – No Descendants, Women at Work, Linen Industry. 3 minute read.

Margaret Louisa Dredge, later Margaret Louisa Lawrence 1853-?, from Eling, Hampshire - Lawbreaking, No Descendants, Dorchester Prison. 2 minute read.

Nellie Etches 1891-1967, from Market Drayton, Shropshire – No Descendants, Women at War, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. 9 minute read.

Margaret Evans 1865-1933, from Ebbw Vale, Wales – No Descendants, Women at Work, Grange School of Housewifery. 8 minute read.

Eliza Margaret Fearn 1860-1879, from Mexborough, Yorkshire - Abandonment, Lawbreaking, No Descendants, Poverty, Leeds Girls' Industrial School. 8 minute read.

Charlotte Fisher, later Charlotte Uttin 1852-1932, from Great Ellingham, Norfolk – Lawbreaking, Murder, No Descendants. 4 minute read.

Mary Lano Flew 1860-1934, from Portland, Dorset – No Descendants, Women at Work, Dorchester Prison. 2 minute read.

Ethel Fraser 1874-1958, from Leeds, Yorkshire - No Descendants, Women at War, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 8 minute read.

Emma Jane Fulford 1842-1910, from Barford St. Martin, Wiltshire – No Descendants, Women at Work, Refuges for Fallen Women (Staffordshire). 5 minute read.

Susan Fulford 1819-1911, from Buckland Brewer, Devon - No Descendants, Women at Work, 1819. 5 minute read.

Dorothy Furnace, later Dorothy Storey 1895-1967 and Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Furnace, later Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Wilson 1897-1987, from Keswick, Cumberland - No Descendants, Women at War, Women at Work, VAD Personnel. 6 minute read.

Fanny Gwendoline Gallimore, later Fanny Gwendoline Oldham 1892-1975, from Sandbach, Cheshire - No Descendants, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. 7 minute read.

Mary Hannah ‘Minnie’ Garrett, later Mary Hannah Cheyne, 1867-1943 from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland – Child Mortality, No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 10 minute read.

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

Florence Marion Gibbon 1890-1965, from Altrincham, Cheshire - No Descendants, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. 8 minute read.

Rachel Gillespie 1867-1941, from Knocknamuckley, Co. Armagh – Emigration, No Descendants, Women at Work, Linen Industry. 4 minute read.

Edith Eileen Godson 1894-1975, from Heckington, Lincolnshire – No Descendants, Women at War, Women at Work, VAD Personnel. 2 minute read.

Laura Blanche Grey 1835-1914, from Woodmansterne, Surrey - No Descendants, Women at Work, Refuges for Fallen Women (Essex). 5 minute read.

Mary Hales 1819—1821, from Wem, Shropshire – No Descendants, 1819. 2 minute read.

Sarah Hall, later Sarah Barry 1886-1818, from Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland – No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 4 minute read.

Esther or Edith Hartley c.1889-1969, from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland - Accident, No Descendants, Sickness, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 4 minute read.

Anne Haskis, later Anne McDowell 1864-1919, from Edenballycoggill, Co. Down, – No Descendants, Women at Work, Linen Industry. 4 minute read.

Sarah Henley c.1829-1904, from Newton Abbot, Devon - Disability, No Descendants, Schools for the Deaf (Exeter). 2 minute read.

Maud Louisa Holley, later Maud Louia Marson 1890-1960, from Hammersmith, Middlesex - Disability, No Descendants, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 8 minute read.

Annie Hoole, later Annie Ross 1891-1975, from Leftwich, Cheshire - Accident, No Descendants, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. 7 minute read.

Ada Bessie Hucker 1896-1973, from Catcott, Somerset – No Descendants, Women at Work, Grange School of Housewifery. 3 minute read.

Mary Humphrey 1890-?, from Bronnington, Flintshire - Disability, Illegitimacy, No Descendants, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 5 minute read.

Lily Hymers 1880-1903, from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland- No Descendants, Sickness, Suicide, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 4 minute read.

Evelyn Altham Jackson, later Evelyn Altham Lowe, 1877-1964 from Brinley, Cambridgeshire - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 3 minute read.

Amelia Jenkins 1819-1883, from Wem, Shropshire – No Descendants,1819. 3 minute read.

Bessie Jones 1891-1967, from Upton, Cheshire – No Descendants, Woman at War, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. 6 minute read.

Dora Jones, later Dora White 1891-1970, from Knutsford, Cheshire – No Descendants, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. 11 minute read.

Dorothy Jones 1891-1977, from Seacombe, Cheshire – No Descendants, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. 8 minute read.

Christine Kellock 1860-1943, from Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 2 minute read.

Emily Adams King later Emily Adams Berry 1890-1936, from Droylsden, Lancashire - No Descendants, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. 5 minute read.

The Leighton Sisters, from Herne Hill, Lambeth, Surrey Ada Florence 1870-1863, Frances Mary 1871-1970, Caroline Jessie 1874-1965, Lottie Matilda 1877-1964 and Gertrude Fanny 1880-1931 - Mental Health, No Descendants, Women at Work. 15 minute read.

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

Frances Emma Ludlam, 1871-1916, from Walton on the Hill, Surrey - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 6 minute read.

Margaret Ludlow, later Margaret Holland 1869-1938, from Derrycrew, Co. Armagh – Child Mortality, No Descendants, Women at Work, Linen Industry. 3 minute read.

Frances Amelia MacDonald 1842-1910 from West Alvington, Devon – No Descendants, Women at Work, Refuges for Fallen Women (Staffordshire). 4 minute read.

Jeannie MacLean, later Jeannie Davidson 1866-1906, from Bessbrook, Co. Armagh – No Descendants, Women at Work, Linen Industry. 5 minute read.

Sarah Jane Mallard, later Sarah Jane Lackey 1871-1928, from Edenballycoggill, Co. Down – No Descendants, Women at Work, Linen Industry. 3 minute read.

Daisy Caroline Louise Maton, later Daisy Caroline Louise Wheeler 1891-1959 from Alderbury, Wiltshire – Alcoholism, Disability, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Essex). 4 minute read.

Henrietta Maunder c.1832-1903 from Salcombe Regis, Devon – Disability, No Descendants, Poverty, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Exeter). 5 minute read.

Lizzie McCart 1866-1918, from Derlett, Co. Armagh – No Descendants, Women at Work, Linen Industry. 11 minute read.

Selina Melville 1869-1952 from France - Alcoholism, No Descendants, St. Joseph’s Inebriate Reformatory. 5 minute read.

Muriel Osmond Mesney c.1893-1928 from Sticklepath, Devon, born in Sarawak, Borneo - No Descendants, Women at War, Voluntary Aid Detachment Personnel. 8 minute read.

Lucy Fryer Morland 1864-1965, Janet Fryer Morland, later Janet Fryer Braithwaite 1867-1936, Margaret Sarah Morland, later Margaret Sarah Grace 1884-1927 and Hannah Grace Morland 1885-1963 from Croydon, Surrey – No Descendants (Lucy and Hannah), Women at Work, The Mount School. 50 minute read.

Hannah Mary Morris, later Hannah Mary Bailey 1890-1982 from Abergavenny, Montgomeryshire – No Descendants, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. 3 minute read.

Wilhelmina Morris 1870-1944 from Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 5 minute read.

Catharine Oliver 1829-1855 from Charlton Marshall, Dorset - Disability, No Descendants, Poverty, Schools for the Deaf (Exeter). 6 minute read.

Julia Oliver 1895-1988 from Bristol, Somerset - No Descendants, Women at Work, Grange School of Housewifery. 3 minute read.

Alice Mabel Paget-Tomlinson, aka Mabel Paget-Tomlinson 1876-1953 from Great Crosby, Lancashire – No Descendants, Women at War, Voluntary Aid Detachment Personnel. 4 minute read.

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

Jane Park, later Jane Darby 1878-1964 from Westoe, County Durham – No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 10 minute read.

Anna Peach 1831-1890 from Yeovil, Somerset - Disability, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Exeter). 8 minute read.

Edith Elizabeth Peacock 1892-1977 from Bedford, Bedfordshire - Disability, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 9 minute read.

Margaret Hunter Pearson, 1869-1943 from Campbell Town, Argyllshire, Scotland – No Descendants, Women at Work, Grange School of Housewifery. 6 minute read.

Hannah Pitman, later Hannah Holloway, afterwards Hannah Hoskins 1849-? from Chaldon Herring, Dorset – Lawbreaking, No Descendants, Dorchester Prison. 8 minute read.

Alma Sophie Pooley, later Alma Sophie Hersee 1889-1981 and Hilda Mary Pooley, later Hilda Mary Childs 1887-1941 from Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire - Disability, Lawbreaking, No Descendants (Alma), Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 5 minute read.

Elizabeth Poskitt 1885-1954 from Pontefract, Yorkshire – Disability, No Descendants, Women at War, Voluntary Aid Detachment Personnel. 3 minute read.

Amelia Pressly 1881-1978 from Aberdeen, Scotland - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 3 minute read.

Harriet Eliza Priestly 1857-1932 from Beverley, Yorkshire – No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 3 minute read.

Florence Dent Priestman 1885-1972 and Margaret Priestman 1885-1930 from Hull, Yorkshire – Activism, No Descendants, Suicide, Women at Work, The Mount School. Please note that this story includes an account of a suicide. 8 minute read.

Rose Punnett 1888-1930 from Townsville, Australia - Disability, Illegitimacy, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 11 minute read.

Eleanor Quayle, later Eleanor Beard 1891-1961 from Hyde, Cheshire – No Descendants, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. 8 minute read.

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

Winifred Alice Reid 'Reidie' 1891-1969 from Leytonstone, Essex - No Descendants, Women at Work. 3 minute read.

Elsie Robinson 1888-1980 from Northwich, Cheshire – No Descendants, Voluntary Aid Detachment Personnel, Women at War, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. 4 minute read.

Florence Roscoe 1891-1913 from Crewe, Cheshire – No Descendants, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. 4 minute read.

Olive Hope Rowntree 1887-1969, from Scarborough, Yorkshire – No Descendants, Women at War, The Mount School. 3 minute read.

Lilian Evelyn, aka Lilian Ethel Ryder, later Lilian Evelyn Booth 1890-1985 and Ivy Grace, aka Grace Joy Ryder 1892-1969 from Sandbach, Cheshire – No Descendants (Ivy), Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. 10 minute read.

Jessie Russell, later Jessie Burrow c.1865-? Cobham, Kent - No Descendants, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 10 minute read.

Margery Sample 1889-1912 from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland - No Descendants, Sickness, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 4 minute read.

Elsie Heaton Sault 1892-1987 from Great Meols, Cheshire – No Descendants, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. 6 minute read.

Margaret Scott 1867-? from Edinburgh, Scotland - No Descendants, Sickness, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 2 minute read.

Beatrice Amy Shepherd, later Beatrice Amy Prickman 1872-1964 from Newton Arloch, Cumberland - No Descendants, VAD Personnel, Women at War. 9 minute read.

Jane Shone, later Jane Evans 1819-1898, from Wem Shropshire – No Descendants, Women at Work, 1819. 3 minute read.

Jane Short 1884-1891 from Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland - Child Mortality, Lawbreaking, No Descendants, Sickness, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 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, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 10 minute read.

Susan Smith c.1815-1862 from Colebrook, Devon – Disability, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Exeter). 12 minute read.

Emily Ann Smither, later Emily Ann Southby 1886-1955 from Lewisham, Kent - Disability, No Descendants, Women at Work, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 6 minute read

Winnifred Snell 1887-1966 from Gosport, Hampshire - No Descendants, Women at Work, Grange School of Housewifery. 3 minute read.

Mary Annie Summers 1896-1920 from Ashcott, Somerset - No Descendants, Women at Work, Grange School of Housewifery. 3 minute read.

The Tangye Girls Sarah Tangye, later Sarah Price 1845-1932 from Illogan, Cornwall; Annie Jayne Tangye 1861--1947 from Birmingham, Worcestershire; Barbara Catherine Tangye, later Barbara Catherine Smith 1904-1991 from Kings Norton, Worcestershire – No Descendants, Women at Work, The Mount School. 8 minute read.

Nellie Florence Terry, later Nellie Florence Campbell 1891-1964 from Sutton, Surrey - Disability, No Descendants, Schools for the Deaf (Margate). 3 minute read.

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

Margaret Ann Turkington 1867-1938, from Charlestown, Co. Armagh – No Descendants, Women at Work, Linen Industry. 4 minute read.

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

Leah Leona Urinowski 1891-1978 from Liscard, Cheshire – No Descendants, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. 4 minute read.

Emma Rachel Veness 1826-1893 from Deptford, Kent – No Descendants, Women at Work, Refuges for Fallen Women (Basingstoke). 10 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.

Fanny Vincent 1846-? from Wyke Regis, Dorset – Lawbreaking, No Descendants, Women at Work, Dorchester Prison. 2 minute read.

Gladys Annie Vincent 1895-1955 from Somerton, Somerset - No Descendants, Women at Work, Grange School of Housewifery. 10 minute read.

Maria Vuller 1861-1934 from Aldershot, Hampshire – Mental Health, No Descendants, Suicide, Refuges for Fallen Women (Basingstoke). 6 minute read. Please note that this story includes an account of attempted suicide.

Annie Clark Warburton 1891-1963 –from Bosden, Cheshire - No Descendants, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. 6 minute read.

Harriet Watkins 1874-1896 from Ludlow, Shropshire – No Descendants, Refuges for Fallen Women (Staffordshire). 4 minute read.

Margaret Anderson Watkins later Margaret Anderson Moffat 1874-1966 from South Shields, Durham – No Descendants, Sickness, Women at Work, Fleming Memorial Hospital. 5 minute read.

Alma Willment, later Alma Webber 1885-1985 from Henlade, Somerset - No Descendants, Women at Work, Grange School of Housewifery. 4 minute read.

Amy Berta Minto Wilson 1883-1978 and Alice Victoria Minto Wilson 1885-1964 from Walthamstow, Essex – No Descendants, Women at Work, VAD Personnel, The Mount School. 3 minute read.

Hilda Wright, later Hilda Fowles 1890-1989 from Nantwich, Cheshire – No Descendants, Women at Work, Cheshire County Training College. 3 minute read.

Georgina Wyche 1875-1901 from Highbury, London - Mental Health, No Descendants, Suicide, Women at Work. Warning, this story includes an account of suicide. 5 minute read.