Laura Ellen Watson

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About Laura Ellen Watson

Affectionately known by some as Mother Hawkesford. A temperance and suffragette activist and a mid-wife trained by her mother, Eliza.

Laura in New Zealand later trained her youngest daughter, Maud Eudora, in mid-wifery and early childcare to help Laura with her caseload and subsequently was mid-wife to May, wife of Ben Anderson, and delivered her twins Matty and Betty.

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Laura Ellen Watson's Timeline

1834
September 2, 1834
1858
August 25, 1858
327 Summer Lane, Suburb of St. George (Birmingham)
1860
May 26, 1860
Aston Manor (North Birmingham), Philip St, Aston Manor (now Birmingham), West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
1862
July 7, 1862
Aston Manor (North Birmingham), Philip St, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
1865
August 27, 1865
36 Chatham Street, Duddeston, Birmingham, UK
1869
January 17, 1869
35 Lexton Street, Aston Manor (now Birmingham)
1872
February 6, 1872
Philip Street, Aston Manor (now Birmingham), UK
1876
December 11, 1876
19 Newton Street, Birmingham, UK
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