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| AUDREY HARRISON, CRANBROOK 1886 A lot of history with this sampler |
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AUDREY HARRISON 1886.
It is a reflection on history that so often it is not about the woman but the men that lead her through life . Audrey born in 1872 the eldest daughter of Alban and Elizabeth Harrison. he the Chaplin of Maidstone Prison, no place to bring up a young family, by the time she had worked her sampler the family had moved to the idyllic Village of Cranbook in Kent where he became Vicar.
In 1901 she married George Somers McLoughin, DSO,CMG,MB,BS. a distinguished Army Officer in the Medical core who had already served in East Africa, Uganda receiving the Order of the Brilliant Star from Queen Victoria in 1899 for bravery. And served in South Africa Anglo-Boer war from oct 1899-1901. In 1902 became Major RAMC (How he had time to court our Audrey I do not know). In 1912 became Lieutenant Colonel and served with the British Expeditionary Force. In 1920 he was sent to Malta becoming Director Medical Services Malta Command retiring as Major-General in 1922.
Our Audrey at home brought up two children Audrey and Hester Joan, died in Sevenoaks in 1927 George lived on to 1943. |
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