Ellen Davidson/later Dando

[HLB1973]

The attached photograph is believed to be of Ellen Davidson. She was born abt 1887 in Newcastle, but moved to Willington and then South Moor. Her father was Robert Davidson. Her mother died when she was about 12 and after her father re-married about 2 years later, she left home and lived with the family of Thomas Middlemast (my Great Uncle).

She became a Lay Primative Methodist Preacher and later went to London and did missionary work there. In 1915 she married  David John Dando, A Lay Preacher and School Teacher from Monmouthshire, in1915 and they continued their missionary work until his death in 1943.

Her brief autobiography, Out of Romanism, is dedicated to Thomas Middlemast.