Reference
Z797
Title
Records of Miss Beatrice Ellen Mary Wadelin, (1903 - 1992)
Gift from Mrs Vera Pieper, June 1993
19th and 20th century
Related Material - see also X 581
Date free text
1880-1992
Production date
From: 1888 To: 1992
Admin/biog history
Beatrice Ellen Mary Wadelin, 1903-1992, of Bedfordshire
27 May 1903 - Birth at 24, Station Road, Claygate, Thames Ditton, Surrey, the daughter of Arthur Wadelin, butler, and Alice Jessie (nee Broad), a lady's maid
[c 1914 - 1921?] - Attended Leighton Buzzard High School
1925 - 1930 - Paddington Hospital. Probationer then Staff Nurse
21 June 1929 - Became Registered Nurse (SRN)
29 December 1929 - Received Certificate of Efficency as a medical and surgical nurse, Paddington Hospital
24 May 1930 - Certification as midwife
November 1930 - Passed examination regarding tuberculosis nursing
1931 - 1938 - Midwife, Hertfordshire
1938 - 1947 - Midwife, Bedford
20 March 1947 - Became member of the Royal College of Nursing
23 October 1950 - Became Life Member of the Royal College of Nursing
1 December 1953 - Received medal for 21 years service, Queen's Institute of District Nursing
15 December 1992 - Died at Bedford
Arthur Wadelin (father)
Born on 16 August 1877 at Liverpool Road, Warrington, Lancs, the son of Samuel, an iron worker and Hannah, formerly Birch. He was butler at Peterborough House, Heathfield, Hansworth, Birmingham, at Carlett Park, Eastham, Birkenhead, at Swancliffe Hall, Ripley, near Leeds, and Liscombe Park, Bucks.
Died on 28 March 1916, in France, while serving with the 1st Bucks Battalion of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
Alice Jessie Wadelin (mother)
Born on 11 January 1869 at Chigwell, Essex, as Alice Jessie Broad, the daughter of George, a sawyer, and Jane Sarah Broad, formerly Mansfield. Died on 2 February 1944 at St Faith's, Ashwell Street, Leighton Buzzard, aged 75
Marriage (of above)
16 August 1902 at Woodford Bridge, Essex.
Arthur Wadelin, 25, butler (the son of Samuel, deceased, an ironworker),of Brook Leigh, Esher, and Alice Jessie Broad, 33, (the daughter of George, labourer) of Woodford Bridge
Additional material deposited September 1998, accession 8015
Level of description
fonds