Biography:
Rachel Wolsey Forde
09/08/1868 –08/10/1939
Rachel Wolsey Forde
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Unmarked grave Rachel Wolsey Forde (1868-1931)
Rachel was born 9 August 1868 in Holywood, County Down, a community just outside Belfast on the banks of the estuary. Her mother was Elizabeth (née Riley) and her father Joseph Forde. She was the eldest of their seven children.
Rachel never married.
In 1901 she was Matron of Dr Stephenson’s Children’s Home at 97, Victoria Park Road, Hackney. This was a charity with strong links to the Wesleyan movement, founded in 1869 to help vulnerable children. In Rachel’s’ care were sixteen girls and young women ranging in age from 5 to 22. Five were described as “patients” and all suffered from epilepsy. The others, all of whom were learning skills such as sewing, office work and domestic service were described as “inmates”.
From at least 1919 to 1924 the electoral registers show her living at 23, Bonner Road, Tower Hamlets. This was the National Children’s Home and Orphanage, which was established by Dr Stephenson. But oddly she is not recorded on the 1921 census return for the institution.
Rachel died 8 October 1931 aged 64 11, Upper Ashlyns Road. Given her experience working in children’s homes she may have been associated with Coram Foundling Hospital at Ashlyns. Her funeral service conducted by the Dissenting Minster.
Probate was granted to George Reilly Forde, Wesleyan minister, one of her brothers.
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Unmarked grave Rachel Wolsey Forde (1868-1931)
Rachel was born 9 August 1868 in Holywood, County Down, a community just outside Belfast on the banks of the estuary. Her mother was Elizabeth (née Riley) and her father Joseph Forde. She was the eldest of their seven children.
Rachel never married.
In 1901 she was Matron of Dr Stephenson’s Children’s Home at 97, Victoria Park Road, Hackney. This was a charity with strong links to the Wesleyan movement, founded in 1869 to help vulnerable children. In Rachel’s’ care were sixteen girls and young women ranging in age from 5 to 22. Five were described as “patients” and all suffered from epilepsy. The others, all of whom were learning skills such as sewing, office work and domestic service were described as “inmates”.
From at least 1919 to 1924 the electoral registers show her living at 23, Bonner Road, Tower Hamlets. This was the National Children’s Home and Orphanage, which was established by Dr Stephenson. But oddly she is not recorded on the 1921 census return for the institution.
Rachel died 8 October 1931 aged 64 11, Upper Ashlyns Road. Given her experience working in children’s homes she may have been associated with Coram Foundling Hospital at Ashlyns. Her funeral service conducted by the Dissenting Minster.
Probate was granted to George Reilly Forde, Wesleyan minister, one of her brothers.
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