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Nurse/midwife help
« on: Sunday 02 July 17 12:20 BST (UK) »
Hello I am trying to find out more about two pictures I have of my Great Grandmother, Mary Ann Thomas from Pencoed, Glamorgan.  I was told she was a Midwife in the Bridgend area of Glamorgan.  She has always looked like a nun to me in the picture but she was a Midwife. 

The first picture (the nun) is stamped on the back with the date 31st Oct 1929 & is addressed to my Grandad Thomas John Thomas in Pencoed nr Bridgend.  Mary Ann died in 1933 aged 78yrs old.

The second picture of Mary Ann  is not dated but looks younger &  looks more like a nurses uniform

Could anyone help date the second picture please
Thank you
Jan

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Re: Nurse/midwife help
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 02 July 17 21:31 BST (UK) »
Clean up for Mary...

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Re: Nurse/midwife help
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 02 July 17 22:07 BST (UK) »
I wonder if she was a midwife like those in the T.V series "Call the Midwife"The ones who were nuns?
Was she married do you know?Viktoria.

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Re: Nurse/midwife help
« Reply #3 on: Monday 03 July 17 01:19 BST (UK) »
Nicely cleaned up, Handypandy.

No expert, but I think the nurse's uniform would be from the 1910s - similar to 1900s uniforms but without the exaggerated shoulders. To me she looks late 50s to early 60s, so say first half of the decade.

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Re: Nurse/midwife help
« Reply #4 on: Monday 03 July 17 08:42 BST (UK) »
Just looked at a larger image and she does have a wedding ring and  an engagement ring so not a nun.( They do have a wedding ring as it is considered they are married to Christ  but there would
not be an engagement ring.)
In the first photograph she wears a strange hat- looks like velvet with streamers down the back.
Could she be in a costume perhaps, the hat reminds me of those Mary Queen of scots is depicted as wearing.
The apron and cuffs though are typical of nurses` uniforms.You have started a mystery!
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Re: Nurse/midwife help
« Reply #5 on: Monday 03 July 17 15:47 BST (UK) »
Thank you all for your help, yes she was married and had ten children, so not a nun !!

She is a bit of a puzzle, says she is a nurse on 1911 census. Would have liked to find out a bit more about her nursing career such as where she worked etc.

Thanks again

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Re: Nurse/midwife help
« Reply #6 on: Monday 03 July 17 15:53 BST (UK) »
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Re: Nurse/midwife help
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 04 July 17 02:18 BST (UK) »
She may have become a nun late in life.
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« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 04 July 17 06:07 BST (UK) »
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