Margery Joan Wesley-Smith

General information

Date of birth: (baptised) 10 May 1893     Place of birth: (baptised) Weston-super-Mare, Somerset

Father: John Wesley Smith, physician and surgeon   Mother: Alice Maude Smith

Spouse(s): Edward Noel Griffith     Date(s) of marriage: 1 May 1917     Place(s) of marriage: St Peter's,  Harrogate

Occupation:

Lifestory: A lady of considerable intellectual attainments, she matriculated at London University, and passed her first year's examination in Medicine. From early 1916 until the date of her marriage she was a nurse at an English hospital behind the French front, and bravely endured the many hardships and dangers incident to that period the war and her close proximity to the actual fighting. (See Gloucestershire Echo 23 October 1918)

She died of bronchial pneumonia following the birth of her first child (who did not survive).

Moved to Pittville from: Harrogate, Yorkshire     Moved from Pittville to: [died in Cheltenham]

Date of death: 16 October 1918   Place of death: Cheltenham

Date of burial:     Place of burial: Cheltenham Cemetery (family plot)

Notes:     ID: 18435

Contributor(s): David Drinkwater

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Found 6 family members on the Pittville History Works Database (based on “relation to head” in the 1841-1911 census records and 1939 register records)

John Charles Griffith, Matilda Catherine Griffith, Mary Catherine Griffith, Edward Noel Griffith, Audrey B. N. Noel, Margery Joan Wesley-Smith