Location in Cheltenham could mean training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, so that's a new lead - thank you!
Ric3188
Or any other hospital in Melbourne. Why do you think she trained at the Royal Melbourne? You have no proof she was a nurse.
Anyway, I noticed the other day when re-reading accounts of her father's death in the local papers the Mary Ann was not mentioned whereas her sister Margaret was
Ric3188
The Ballarat Star has
not been digitised for the period Apr 1898 so it would appear a descendant has obtained copies of the relevant news items. I notice there are public trees on Ancestry.com with the relevant items from the
Ballarat Star. John's death was reported in six newspapers, some of them far removed from Ballarat. The was not unusual in this period. General news items were copied from paper to paper whether or not they were relevant or of interest to the readers in other districts.
From the
Ballarat Star 19 Apr 1898
His wife died 20 years ago and he has raised a family of six daughters and one son. The latter left home several years ago and
relatives do no know anything concerning his whereabouts or even is he is living or not. One of the daughters is the wife of Mr A Prout of Prouts band. Another is married and living in Ballarat East, while a third is a widow living in Westralia. It was the last named that the deceased and his unmarried daughter were intending to go in a course of a few days.
Did you download the Letters of Administration file from PROV? It is quite possible that Mary Ann's last known address was Cheltenham not that she was actually living at Cheltenham in 1898.
England was reluctant to send nurses to the Boer War and as Australia was not a Federation at the commencement of hostilities, it was up to each individual Colony to decide whether or not to send nurses. It has been recorded that only 60 nurses from the colonies travelled to South Africa.
Cando
