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Living at Boraston Rectory, Hubert 35yrs Clerk, Frederica 25yrs, Louisa 4yrs, Edward 3yrs, William 2yrs, Frederick 8mths
Living at Boraston Rectory, Herbert 45yrs Rector of Burford 1st portion, Frederica 34yrs, Loisa E 14yrs, William G 11yrs, Frederick H 7yrs, Sophia C 5yrs, Fanny F 2yrs, Georgina L 1yr
Living at 28 The Avenue, Richmond Frederick H 50yrs retired Bengal Civil Servant, Elizabeth 40yrs, Hugh 7yrs, Eva E 4yrs, Nora 3yrs
Louisa Elizabeth McLaughlin - Sister of Edward and Frederick - Founder member of the Red Cross
Louisa, daughter of the Very Rev. Hubert McLaughlin and the Hon. Frederica (nee Crofton) was born in Nice.
Her maternal Grandfather was Edward, 3rd Baron Crofton of Mote. Grandfather Thomas McLaughlin is in the Tudor Roll of the Blood Royal.
Her father Hubert was born in Queens County, Ireland, in 1805, and died in 1882 in Boraston, Shropshire.
Her mother Frederica was born in Roscommon in Ireland in1816, and died in Notting Hill, Middlesex in 1881.
Louisa was the first of their nine children. Their second child, Edward, also born in Nice, became a Major General and is buried in Heene Cemetery, as are sister Annie and brother Judge Frederick Hubert McLaughlin.
In the censuses of 1841, 1851 and 1861, Louisa is living at Boraston Rectory with her parents, Hubert being the Rector of Burford.
In 1871 she was a Visitor in the Kensington home of Georgiana Ruskind, a single lady of 66, born in Shropshire.
In 1881 Louisa was joint Head of Household, with Emma Pearson, at 15 Fitzroy Square, St Pancras, London. Both ladies ‘unmarried’. Louisa ‘Lady Superintendent of Nursing’. Emma, then 50 and born in Yarmouth, ‘Lady Superintendent.’
There were 10 Visitors: Harriet Walling, 50, single, born Leominster, Janet Brown, 24, widow, born Aberdeen, Mary Brown, 2, born Dunedin, New Zealand, Margaret Begg,17 single, born Dunedin and Augustus A Dick, 53, single, Retired Lieutenant Colonel, born Sydney, New South Wales, Mary Sliffe, aged 1, born Kendal, Westmoreland, Annie Bushell, 39, born Margate, Moreton J Barnes, single man, Banker’s Clerk, born Brighton, William Girling, 45, single, Fire Engine Hose Maker, born London, David Birkin, 21, single, Butcher, born Northampton. There were 8 Servants, Housekeeper, Parlourmaid, 3 Nurses, 2 Housemaids and a Kitchenmaid.
Louisa, Emma and 2 of the Nurses had ‘Hospital’ written by their Occupation.
In 1911 Louisa was living at ‘Belmont’, in Shakespeare Road, in West Worthing. Single sister Sophia Charlotte, at 65, was the Head of the household, and sister Georgina, single and 61, was there too. The sisters were all ‘Living on Private Means’. There were also a Cook and a Housemaid.
Louisa was living at 1 Birchwood Villa, Albert Park Road, Malvern, when she died on 20th April 1921. Probate was given to Alfred Harry McLaughlin, Clerk. He was her younger brother, born in Burford, Shropshire, in 1853.
Emma Pearson - close friend of Louisa
Emma was the daughter of Charles and Maria Pearson. Charles, born in London, was a Captain in the Royal Navy.
Emma Maria Pearson’s Mother, Maria, was a Widow in Great Yarmouth in 1861. She was born in Yarmouth.
In 1871 Emma was living in Ipswich, a Visitor and ‘Nurse on the English Lecturer’ (unclear). She was one of several Visitors in the House of John Wilfred Gosnel a Magistrate and Landowner, his wife and 3 children and 3 Servants.