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« Reply #54 on: Saturday 10 April 21 19:05 BST (UK) »
Looks as if the OP has not been on the board for some time.

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« Reply #55 on: Sunday 11 April 21 13:41 BST (UK) »
Hello!

I am still around... thank you for the renewed interest.

I still haven't resolved this and have had subsequent tries many times over the years.

Having read back through the thread, I think the 'new' information I have now is:

- Sheila's baptism record from 17th January 1917 at St Lukes, Chelsea (as mentioned on the previous page). The record states that her father was Stewart Macdonald (deceased). Previously the name had been Alexander Macdonald, for example on Sheila's marriage cert. I have tried searching various different combinations of the names, however, as was suspected at the beginning it seems that he is not a real person. The story went that the father was a doctor in the war and returned to deal with the flu epidemic, and then died. If he supposedly died before January 1917 then that cannot be true.

- The address on the baptism certificate is 39 Royal Avenue. I have searched for that address on the 1911 census and it's '39 and 41 Royal Avenue, Belgrave Nursing Home, Chelsea S W' and the census is made up of nursing staff and patients.

- I wrote to the Red Cross, someone with records for QAIMS (I can't remember exactly who) and also somewhere with suffragette records asking for any information on Bridget, or Eileen, Macdonald of Fitzgerald and none of them had any records.

- Having researched the history further, it would have been very unlikely that a married woman went to the front in the War as a nurse - they were single.

- Bridget Fitzgerald/MacDonald definitely had had some medical training. The 1939 register lists her as a 'state registered nurse' although again I can't find her in any nursing records.

So really, I am no closer to finding out who Bridget and Sheila were than I was eleven years ago.

Thank you for reading :)
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« Reply #56 on: Sunday 11 April 21 14:57 BST (UK) »
I'm off down a rabbit hole now :)

I have found a Stuart Macdonald on the Medical Register for 1913 (there are two listed).

The one I am interested in is:

Name: Stuart Macdonald
Address: Army Medical Service
Date & Place of Registration: 1884, April 21 S
Qualifications: M.B. Mast. Surg. 1884, Univ. Aberd.

It seems he was born in 1861 in Elgin, Moray, Scotland to William Macdonald and Eliza Watson Stuart.

There is a paragraph on him in the Aberdeen Weekly Journal on 21st January 1916:

"Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George. Colonel Stewart Macdonald R.A.M.C - Graduated M.B., C.M, at Aberdeen University in 1884. He is the son of Mr William Macdonald, Elgin. He joined the medical service in the army in 1887, and was appointed a major of the R.A.M.C in 1899. He has the medal with two clasps for the Tirah expedition in 1897-98"

However, it seems he died in 1939 as the Probate Death Index lists:.

MACDONALD C.B. C.M.G. A.M.S Stuart of Willowbank Moss-street Elgin died 19 May 1939 Confirmation of William Macdonald. Sealed London 26 August.

He appears on the 1871 census as a visitor, in Paddington, London. Occupation 'Surgeon Army Med Staff Army Off', born Elgin, single.

1911 census - aged 49, single, boarder. Major RAM Corps at the Royal Army Medical College, Grosvenor Road Westminster. This is 1.4 miles away from where Bridget is recorded as living for Sheila's baptism in 1917.

I realise London is a big and busy place, however, it puts someone of the correct name, with the occupation that I have been told, in the same area.

There would be an age gap of approx 20 years between Bridget and himself.

Another tenuous link, when Sheila Macdonal married Hugh Sixsmith she married into a family of high ranking army medical officers. Surely those circles were small in those days?

Anyway... off to give it some more thought.

He could, of course, still entirely be a work of fiction!! And it doesn't bring me any closer to finding Sheila's birth, or who Bridget was. It's a puzzle.
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« Reply #57 on: Sunday 11 April 21 16:21 BST (UK) »
https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/paddington.html

Dec q 1913 Blackwood    Female    Blackwood    Paddington    1a   87

A possible birth record.
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Kent= Nicholls Mepstead Watts   Mile End=Craze Wood Bennett
Cork=Howe   NZ=Coxhead   Canada=Fenn Cox Turner


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« Reply #58 on: Sunday 11 April 21 16:45 BST (UK) »
Joan Sheila Mary Blackwood Temple MacDonald

this is wrongly transcribed... 28 Jan 1917   

the original reads.. bapt 28 January 1914 born 19 Dec 1913

St Luke, Chelsea   
Kensington and Chelsea   
Stewart,
Eileen Mary
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« Reply #59 on: Sunday 11 April 21 16:51 BST (UK) »
https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/paddington.html

Dec q 1913 Blackwood    Female    Blackwood    Paddington    1a   87

A possible birth record.

Lesanne - Death was registered in same Quarter.
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Rodway London 19-20c
Kirk London/Brum/Coventry/London 19c
Blower Warwicks 19c
Syrett/Brewer/Cranwell London 19c
Punter Herts/London 19c
Whitrow/Hutchings/Leeworthy/Goldsworthy/May - Devon 19-20c

Stoodley Dorset/Hants/Wilts 18-20c
Cooper/Clark Broughton, Hants 18c
Moody - East Dean/Sherfield English Hants 18/19c
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« Reply #60 on: Sunday 11 April 21 16:56 BST (UK) »
Joan Sheila Mary Blackwood Temple MacDonald

this is wrongly transcribed... 28 Jan 1917   

the original reads.. bapt 28 January 1914 born 19 Dec 1913

St Luke, Chelsea   
Kensington and Chelsea   
Stewart,
Eileen Mary

Hi Lesanne!

Thank you for your input. Where abouts did you see this, as the copy I have definitely states baptisms listed in 1917?

Thanks :)
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« Reply #61 on: Sunday 11 April 21 17:02 BST (UK) »
If Mar 1914 Qtr registration, just putting this one in for info:

McCarthy Sheila M mmn McCarthy 
Chelsea 1a 664
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Rodway London 19-20c
Kirk London/Brum/Coventry/London 19c
Blower Warwicks 19c
Syrett/Brewer/Cranwell London 19c
Punter Herts/London 19c
Whitrow/Hutchings/Leeworthy/Goldsworthy/May - Devon 19-20c

Stoodley Dorset/Hants/Wilts 18-20c
Cooper/Clark Broughton, Hants 18c
Moody - East Dean/Sherfield English Hants 18/19c
White  Aspull/Wigan, Lancs 19-20c
West/Angel/Johnson/Clark  S. Wilts 19-20c
Edwards  Wardour/Ansty, Wilts 19c