Mildred A. Colclough.
Exploring Discovery[1]
channeling my narcissist, who would I happen upon driven by the Karma of my
previous life?
Miss Mildred A. Colclough[2],
she has 70, -seventy- pages of records, surely enough to look into her life. A
nursing Colclough, why would I not look?
Here are some bits and pieces…
First snippet is she looks to have retired in June 1939, next
page a letter to Miss Husband Principal Patron T.A.N.S. (Territorial Army
Nursing Service) Royal Infirmary Glasgow, from The War Office London SW1. Accepting
(among others) the resignation Miss Mildred Adelaide Colclough from 7th
June 1939 and noting she was entitled to retain her T.A.N.S. badges.
A letter from her dated December 21st, 1921 from
‘The Disabled Officers Home and Club, 46 and 48 Westbourne Terrace, Hyde Park
W.2.’ acknowledging her promotion. Handwritten and signed by her.
Letter confirming her promotion (named on a list) from Maud
McCarthy matron in Chief T.A.N.S. 18th December 1923.
Personal letter from the above Miss McCarthy to ‘Miss
Colclough’ congratulating her on promotion from Staff nurse to Sister, dated 18th
December 1923, promotion effected from 10 November 1923, addressed to Miss
Mildred A. Colclough, Sister T.A.N.S., Nursing Home 46 Westbourne terrace, Hyde
Park.
Promotion recommendation headed 4th Scottish
General Hospital. Career history trained at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital;
Rochester. Enrolled 7.10.18, called up 22.10.18, age 35 demobilized 30.4.19.
Reports ‘Very Good recommended for promotion’.
Letters acknowledging promotion process underway from above
Miss McCarthy.
Date of arrival at 4th Scottish Hospital,
Glasgow, 22 October 1918, permission for Miss Mildred Colclough staff nurse T.A.N.S.
to be released from duty as no longer needed on 30th April 1919.
Document giving her Age and address in 1919 on demobilisation
address 38 Netherby Road Edinburgh. Aged 23 last birthday, stationed at 4th
Scottish General Hospital, the disability form, Army form Z 22. - W 3165a.
Notification of Gratuity Granted on account of cessation of
service with satisfactory conduct.
Handwritten letter giving her insurance number 45956 as a
member of ‘The Nurses Insurance Society’.
Document noting £7 insurance arrears contribution for
civilian nurses in tempera Army employ.
Handwritten letter 20th October 1919, enquiry if
she was entitled to Victory Medal Ribbon even though she had not seen overseas
service, reply that she was not.
Territorial army nursing service document, she was previously
Nurse at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Rochester Kent, sent to 4th Scottish
Hospital, address for pay was 4 Nelson St. Edinburgh.
War officer letter outlining her pay would be £40 first year
annual increment £2 10/- and addition of £20 if undertaking to serve abroad.
Also required to state if both parents were British.
Handwritten letter applying for TANS, stating she was 23,
had completed 4 years of general training at Rochester and had had Theatre Sister
experience, asking for London appointment if possible (went to Scotland), or
overseas.
Handwritten letter 29 August 1918, stating her parents were British,
her deceased mother was English, stepmother was Australian, father was an
officer in the Accountant branch of the Navy for 18 years. A reference can be
supplied by Mrs. Harold Fairweather, wife of Dr H Fairweather honorary surgeon
at the hospital, their address was 11 New Road Avenue New Road, Chatham.
The snippets above all the pages accessible via The National
Archives for Mildred give a fascinating insight into her adult life (I think so
anyway).
The genealogical aspect kicks in, she mentions her parents,
including her stepmother.
I spent an hour or two looking. Her probate shows she never married,
died 1947 and had lived on the Motor Yacht Magnet Cubitt Yacht Basin Hartington
Road Chiswick, London.
Her parents were Beauchamp Urquhart Colclough born Thayetmyo
Burma 1867 died Surrey, England 1949, he retired from the navy with the rank of
Paymaster Rear Admiral (check him in The National Archives too)[3]
and Anabel Mildred Annie Gooch born Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland died Hampshire England
1911, interestingly a remnant of the ‘empire’ as far as Mildred was concerned
her parents were British and were in those times considered to be absolutely
so. Her stepmother was Beatrice Sophie Pearson born new South Wales 1873 and
declared to be Australian.
Just for Colclough’s for now Beauchamp Urquhart’ father was Beauchamp
Colclough born 1829 Dublin, died 1900 Hampshire a retired H.M. Navy Captain. His
father was Beauchamp Urquhart Colclough born about 1800 Elm Grove Co. Carlow Ireland,
his father was Beauchamp Colclough born 1766 Lower, Kildavin, Carlow, Ireland
died 1847 Chippawa, Upper Canada. His father was not surprisingly Beauchamp
Colclough too, born about 1732 Kildavin, Co. Carlow died 1766 at Kildavin, this
Beauchamp’s father was for a change, Henry Colclough born Duffry Hall Co. Wexford
about 1705 died Co. Wexford 1770, his father was Dudley Colclough born About 1670
Duffry Hall, Co. Wexford died there 1712, his father was Patrick Colclough born
about 1645 Duffry Hall, Co. Wexford died 1691 he was in the Irish parliament at
the time of James II in 1689[4].
Patrick’s father was Sir Dudley Colclough born about 1613 he died 1633 in
France where he had escaped to, to avoid Cromwell’s clutches a friend it seems
to Charles II’s mother which helped after the restoration[5].
Sir Dudley’s father was Sir Thomas Colclough born 1564 Rosegarland Co. Wexford
died 1624 and bured ar Tintern Abbey Co. Wexford, last for now Sir Thomas’s father
was Sir Anthony Colclough born Blurton Staffordshire about 1520 the first of us
who ventured to Ireland[6].
So Mildred A. Colclough as well as our career shared some ancestors that’s genealogy
for you a winding path into the past.
[1] National Archives (Great Britain). Discovery.
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ : accessed 26 March 2021
[2]
War Office (Great Britain). Directorate of Army Medical Services and
Territorial Force: Nursing Service records. COLCLOUGH, Mildred A 1914-1919. WO399-10476.
National Archives (Great Britain),
Kew, England. Collection: WO 399 - War Office:
Directorate of Army Medical Services and Territorial Force: Nursing Service
Records, First World War. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C10803412
: accessed 26 March 2021.
[3] Admiralty
(Great Britain). Naval Officer's service record. COLCLOUGH, Beauchamp Urquhart CBE.
ADM 196/12/513 . National Archives (Great Britain), Kew, England. Collection: ADM
196 - Admiralty: Officers' Service Records (Series III). https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7586619
: accessed 05 April 2021.
[4] Library Ireland. The Irish Parliament of King James the second 1689. https://libraryireland.com/Pedigrees2/irish-parliament-king-james.php
: accessed 05 April 2021
[5] See my blog elsewhere here.
[6] Ibid.
