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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Roxburghshire => Topic started by: SWH1 on Monday 09 January 17 14:13 GMT (UK)
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Another of my Scottish Women;s Hospitals members. Sarah was a Nurse in France and Salonika in ww1. Born in 1888. Seems to have enjoyed travel and after entering the USA the trail goes cold. I am really just wanting to know when she died. Many thanks Alan
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and after entering the USA
When was this?
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Hi CaroleW, sorry i should have added that in. Found her on a couple of sites heading to the USA via Canada in the late 1920.s. I have her being born in Sprouston. She was living in Innerleithen in 1922.
Looks like she might of returned in the 1940s as i can see a Sarah Dempster Allan living in Glasgow. But she appears to be in Vermont USA in 1952. And that's as far as i can get.
Regards
Alan
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A Sarah Allan aged 39 occ nurse left Glasgow 6.10.1928 for NY - last address Buccleuch St Innerleithen
Sarah D Allan aged 70 born 26.9.1888 returned from Bombay on 20.4.1959. Address given as 18 Oronsay Crescent Bearsden Glasgow. Occ Nurse and shown as a USA citizen intending to stay 6mths
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Wonder if this is Sarah returning to the UK for a while -
Sarah D Allan
Birth Date - 26 Sep 1888
Age - 70
Occupation - Nurse
Address in UK - 18 Oronsay Crescent, Bearden. Glasgow.
Passport records her as a USA citizen
Intended duration - 6 months
Port of Departure - Bombay, India
Arrival Date - 20 Apr 1959
Port of Arrival - Liverpool, England
Ship - Empress of Britain
Shipping Line - Anchor Line
JJ
Added - I see we had the same thoughts Carole but took me longer to type!!
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Outward passenger list entry to Montreal with address 18 Gransay Crescent Bearsden (see my earlier above) 19.8.1952
USA shown as permanent residence
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Another crossing -
Sarah Dempster Allan
Birth Date 26 Sep 1888
Birth Country Scotland
Age 48
Gender Female
Race/Nationality Scottish
Arrival Date 28 Sep 1936
Port of Arrival Niagara Falls, New York, USA
JJ
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There is an online tree for this lady but unfortunately no death record. However the address 18 Ormsay Crescent, Bearsden, Glasgow is where her parents both died.
JJ
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No death on SP which includes her middle name so as she was 70 in 1959 - perhaps she returned to NY and died there
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There's this one from the SSDI:
Sarah D. Allan
800 (U.S. Consulate) London, United Kingdom
BORN: 26 Sep 1888
Died: 25 Feb 1991
State (Year) SSN issued:New York (Before 1951)
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Maureen
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1930 Census Buffalo, Erie, New York.
The Children's Hospital of Buffalo - Sarah D Allan - 1891 - single - Father and Mother born Scotland - Graduate Nurse - First papers - Imm 1928 -
Sandra
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On the New York Passenger List for Sarah Allan - 14 September 1946 - aged 57 years 8 months - Southampton to New York on the Washington - naturalized in the US District Court - Western District of New York - Buffalo. 5 th July 1934 - address she was returning to was 211 Parkdale Avenue, Buffalo, New York.
Sandra
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Not exactly the same thing, but this might interest you.
http://www.edinburghs-war.ed.ac.uk/Fife/Casualties/Women
One of the women mentioned is Elizabeth "Lizzie" Johnston from Anstruther. She died in rather mysterious circumstances, and there is a little book about her, published in 1920.
Harry
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WOW - Sarah was 102yrs old when she died!!
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As always a great response. Thank you all for chipping in with great facts and details. Maureen that's really made all the difference to her story, thank you.
Here is my site http://scottishwomenshospitals.co.uk The A-Z contains the names of many of the women some/all of you have given up time and information. Thank you.
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A fascinating website. Elsie Inglis is still honoured here in Edinburgh, and there are moves afoot to put up statues to her and to other distinguished Edinburgh women of the past. Wherever you go in Edinburgh the statues are of men, men, men.
Everybody knows about the war on the Western Front in WWI but other theatres of war are less well known. I come from a fishing village in east Fife and in both world wars our steam-drifters were called up for service in the Royal Naval Reserve. Some were sunk in the Adriatic by Austrian submarines operating out of Trieste. Some were used to evacuate our troops from Gallipoli. One of our local skippers ended the war with the Italian Medal for Valour, the French Croix de Guerre and the Serbian Gold Medal.
Talking of women serving in Serbia in WWI, a very different kind of woman was the Englishwoman Flora Sandes, who went out there originally as an unqualified nurse with the Anglo-American Unit, but later she became the first Western woman to enlist as a soldier in WWI, ending up as a captain in the Serbian Army, taking lives instead of saving them. I have a book about her.
Harry
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Talking of women serving in Serbia in WWI, a very different kind of woman was the Englishwoman Flora Sandes, who went out there originally as an unqualified nurse with the Anglo-American Unit, but later she became the first Western woman to enlist as a soldier in WWI, ending up as a captain in the Serbian Army, taking lives instead of saving them. I have a book about her.
Harry
Flora Sandes, I've recently discovered, is my husband's 3rd cousin twice removed! What an amazing woman... Lots online about her ;) and her story doesn't just end at the end of WWI. Although, everything I've read plays down her family a bit, she actually descends from rich Irish landowners.