DON Family History SocietyFeb 6
2. The story of a distressing accident at Skinningrove Ironworks by which a young Staithes woman was decapitated, was told at an inquest at Bretton on Saturday, on Maud Armstrong, seventeen, a labourer engaged to assist the fitters. A verdict of Accidentally killed whilst following her employment was returned. She was wearing a Staithes fisher bonnet at the time.... Mr E Bury, works manager, stated they could not account for the girl having been run over. He thought that the bonnet she was wearing would have something to do with her not seeing the approach of the engine and truck. #forgottenwomen #munitionsfactory
DON Family History SocietyFeb 6
1. Series of women who died in munition factories but no recognised:
There are a number of communities on Lives of the First world War that include female munition workers. Who died due to their war work. It is difficult to identify where munitions people worked due to the secrecy at the time about their activities. This is about women who died in explosions, fires, and other industrial accidents in munition factories but not remembered in any other factory-based community.
Maud Armstrong was born in 1900, Leeds, Yorkshire. She was the daughter of George Armstrong and Maud Storey.
In 1911 Maud aged 11 lived with her family at 8 n 1917 she worked at the Labourer Ministry of Munitions, Skinningrove Ironworks.
On 1st June 1917 Maud was accidently killed whilst following her employment aged 17. Skinningrove Ironworks, Skinningrove, Yorkshire United Kingdom. Church Street, Staithes, Yorkshire. #forgottenwomen #munitionsfactory
A Few Forgotten WomenNov 8, 2024
We are looking forward to researching our #ForgottenWomen today #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #WomensHistory #SocialHistory
A Few Forgotten WomenNov 4, 2024
A Dozen new stories from Schools for the Deaf https://wix.to/N1BymFX
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A Dozen New Stories from the Schools for the Deaf

We have a bumper crop of new stories for you today, as we try to get up to date before our next Forgotten Woman Friday takes place this week.You can now read about Catharine Oliver and Anna Peach from the Exeter School for the Deaf. From the school at Margate, we bring you Jane Maria Barrott, a story that was written by her descendant; sisters Hilda Mary and Alma Sophie Pooley and Rose Punnett, who was born in Australia. You can also find out about their classmates, Eliza Crouch, Lydia Dorothy D

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A Few Forgotten WomenSep 2, 2024
First #ForgottenWomen from schools for the deaf have their stories told. https://wix.to/BjeKVvu
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The First Stories about Pupils at the Schools for the Deaf are now Online

Three days on from our Forgotten Women Friday and we can bring you five stories of the lives of female pupils at two schools for the deaf. We are finding several instances of siblings attending the school and of the girls later marrying fellow pupils. If you haven't done so already, do look at all the background information that two of our team have put together, including a video from Mandy about the Margate institution. Stand by too for Helen's presentation about the Exeter school, which is pa

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A Few Forgotten WomenAug 27, 2024
Some shorter stories are now online #ForgottenWomen #SocialHistory #Women'sHistory #FamilyHistory #Genealogy https://www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/shorter-stories-from-past-forgotten-women-fridays
A Few Forgotten WomenAug 10, 2024
Another Forgotten Women Friday on the horizon - will you volunteer? https://wix.to/sh8ryQN
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A Few Forgotten WomenJul 18, 2024
Three more Fleming Stories https://wix.to/zqF0psy
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Three Short Fleming Hospital Stories

The Fleming Hospital stories are still arriving in our inbox. Here are three for you. The authors have done a great job of weaving a short story from very little information. Mary Deakins, Margaret Victoria Potts and Nellie Wright are no longer completely forgotten. Read their stories here.

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A Few Forgotten WomenJun 24, 2024
More stories from Fleming Hospital creeping in https://wix.to/2XOrXSi
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Two more Fleming Hospital Stories

Another two short stories from Fleming Hospital today. You can meet Isabella Garnham and Harriet Eliza Priestly. We've also received some more that are too short to add as a separate story, these will be uploaded as a collection later.

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A Few Forgotten WomenJun 18, 2024
Three stories of nurses added today https://wix.to/uTVv1eO
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Three New Stories of Nurses

Today we can share the stories of three women who spent time as nurses. Firstly, Dorothy Turner and Margot Lilian Lee-Potter, who were both from Batley in Yorkshire and served with the Voluntary Aid Detachment. Their stories can be found here. We have also added Ella Hay, who worked at the Fleming Memorial Hospital and whose story is here.Don't forget we welcome stories at any time, we just ask that they fulfil our criteria. We can also suggests names that need researching if you don't want to w

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