Millicent Bridget Duncan

[Nigs438]

Hi i am putting together a family tree for a colleague. one claim to fame is a relative that was the first Female Police Officer in Suffolk. WPC Millicent Bridget Duncan is well known in Suffolk Police circles born 11th April 1892 in Portsea an dying in Ipswich on 25th September 1989. i can find no birth records for her. from the family tree i have an Amelia Duncan same date and place of birth and then a Millicent Amelia Duncan who is a nurse  on a 1911 census and then Millicent Bridget Duncan appears as a Police Officer travelling the world on large ships. i am told that this was with the American Wives and Babies  Association which she ran for the Ipswich area. i wondered if anyone had any ideas how Amelia morphed into Millicent Amelia and then to Millicent Bridget. answers on a postcard to.............

[Milliepede]

People did change their names at will I'm afraid just to make life difficult!

Have you found her on a census at all as a child ie 1901?

[Milliepede]

This might be her

1901

Robert Duncan 44
Amelia 36
Amelia 9
Chas 5
Harry 4
Richard 7 months

This birth registration

Jun 1892 Portsea Island
Duncan Amelia mothers name Crabb

[heatherjulie]

Possible Baptism
Birth date 11th April 1892
RMA Church Eastney
May 29th 1892
Amelia
Parents Robert and Amelia Delphine
Occupation Gunner RMA
Baptised by the Chaplain

[Nigs438]

Hi everyone thanks for the responses. i have the information provided by you and it is correct. apart from the worlds shipping passenger lists does anyone have Millicent Bridget Duncan appearing anywhere else. Thanks Nigel

[aghadowey]

Just in case you haven't see this...

Dundee Evening Telegraph, 5 July 1949: Timid Mothers Miss Millicent Duncan, the first policewoman in Suffolk, has retired and is off to the United States. She is taking over Ipswich mothers, whose ...

[Nigs438]

Thanks aghadowey, i haven't seen this and i can't open any attachment to your message. do you have a link to the newspaper article by chance?

thank you

Nigel

[aghadowey]

Thanks aghadowey, i haven't seen this and i can't open any attachment to your message. do you have a link to the newspaper article by chance?

thank you

Nigel

There was no link in my post. What I posted was a snippet from the newspaper. Try Find My Past newspapers (pay site).

[Cazza47]

Timid Mothers:
Miss Millicent Duncan, the first Policewoman in Suffolk, has retired and is off to the United States. She is taking over Ipswich Mothers, whose daughters married G.I.'s and who were too timid to go unattended. Kindly Miss Duncan "Aunt Millie" to hundreds of American Servicemen stationed in Ipswich during the war - was the figure behind scores of weddings. Many of the G.I. brides were married from her little flat and G.I. husbands on leave often stayed there. She is the chairman of the Ipswich G.I. and Canadian War brides association. At the Ipswich Police Court she became known to the magistrates as a witness with a kindly word to say for everyone in trouble.
Article from Dundee Evening Telegraph 5th july 1949.