I've been intrigued by this distant relative for years. If the record is right, she must have been one of the earliest female doctors in England, right next to Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.
But I cannot, cannot find a single thing about her after 1871.
Her name is Mary Jones HUME, and she was born c1840 in St Helens, Lancashire.
Her father, Alexander HUME, born Scotland 1793, worked as a Wesleyan missionary in Ceylon until he settled in England in 1830. Her mother, Emma JONES, was born in New York in 1807, and married her father in St Helens in 1838. She also has a brother Henry who comes and goes between Manchester and Australia. So it's a well-travelled family.
In the 1871 census, Mary is living with her parents at Brougham House, 120 York St (now Cheetham Hill Rd, cnr with Knowsley St), Manchester, under her married name Mary JH TURNER, with her son Henry Edward TURNER b1860 Manchester. Her husband Stephen Balfour TURNER b1828 is living with another woman, and dies a few years later.
Her occupation is given as "Doctor of Medicine".
And then after this tantalising snippet... she disappears!
Where to? What did she do next? And intriguingly, where did she train in medicine?
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SurelyYoureJokingMrFeynman · 17/01/2014 11:48
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