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126:- qualified in England as a nurse and became an Anglican Missionary in the 1930s after surviving Tuberculosis caught from a patient whom she nursed until death. She needed to live at altitude and spent the rest of her life in Bloemfontein, using money sent by her sister to purchase the donkey cart used as the Community's first ambulance, eventually being fêted by the national media as 'Sister Theresa' of South Africa, and appearing on television. She knew Archbishop Desmond Tutu. 882: 116:- qualified in nursing and midwifery under Sister Henrietta and is acknowledged as the founder of modern midwifery training in South Africa. Watkins established a school for midwives in Kimberley in 1893. Achieving renown, an appointment in England was offered – but the invitation letter reached Kimberley on the day that she died. Sister Mary Hirst Watkins is re-interred alongside Sister Henrietta in the grounds of 389: 952: 957: 540: 745: 947: 88:, a sister, pioneered the training of nurses at the Carnarvon Hospital. She was later influential in securing the first state registration of nurses in the world, in 1891. 861: 816: 630: 605: 313: 405: 720: 258: 942: 110:
commemorates Sister Henrietta annually on 6 October, the anniversary of her death - the Synod of Bishops having placed her on the church's Calendar.
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A St Michael's School was established in Kimberley but did not survive beyond the first years of the twentieth century.
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Sister Joan Marsh, the last member of the Community, died aged 97 in Bloemfontein in May 2016.
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Three novices and three lay helpers under Emma, a Mother Superior, traveled from
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in 1874 – although the idea was first mooted by Webb's predecessor,
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The Community's work was extended to the nearby mining town of
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Index

Anglican religious order
South Africa
Allan Webb
Bishop of Bloemfontein
Edward Twells
Bloemfontein
England
Bloemfontein
Port Elizabeth
St Michael's
Cottage Hospital
Orange Free State
Kimberley
Henrietta Stockdale
Henrietta Stockdale
Anglican Church of Southern Africa
Mary Hirst Watkins
St Cyprian's Cathedral, Kimberley
Enid Barber
Link to CSM & AA Ambulance Photos
St Michael’s say farewells to beloved Sister Joan
Mothers, midwifery, births, babies
Archived
Wayback Machine
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Religious orders and communities of the Anglican Communion
Alton Abbey
Brotherhood of the Ascended Christ

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