Notes: aged 32. SS Connemara sank in a collision with the coal carrier Retriever. MW is said to have been on her last shift before her marriage. Her body was never recovered.
Name of Louisa Parry in the Welsh National Book of Remembrance
Martha Emily Jenkins
Place of birth: Liverpool
Service: Stewardess, SS Aguila
Death: 1915/03/27, SS Aguila / Pembrokeshire coast, Drowning / Boddi
Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial, London
Notes: Martha Jenkins, Liverpool born but of Welsh extraction, was a stewardess on SS Aguila trading between Liverpool and the Canaries. The ship was torpedoed by a German U Boat off the coast of Pembrokeshire. Eight lives were lost including an un-named female passenger.
Report of Nurse Edwards’s home leave, Yr Adsain 27th February 1917
Mary Elizabeth (May) Jones
Place of birth: Llanfairfechan
Service: Stewardess, Cunard Steam Ship Company
Death: 1915/05/17, SS Lusitania, Drowning / Boddi
Memorial: Mercantile Marine Memorial to the Missing, Tower Hill, London
Notes: May had been a senior stewardess with the Cunard Steam Ship Company for many years. She drowned aged 43 when SS Lusitania was torpedoed on 17th May 1917, together with 14 other stewardesses including Jane Howdle [qv]. Eight survived. She was buried with other victims at Old Cobh Cemetery, Queenstown, Ireland.
Death Notice of Mary Jones, North Wales Chronicle 14th May 1915.
Newspaper report
Report of memorial service for Mary Jones, Y Clorianydd 19th May 1915rn
Mary (Polly) Phillips
Place of birth: Swansea ?
Service: Stewardess, Cunard
Notes: Polly Phillips had been a stewardess with the Cunard company from about 1911, based in Glasgow. She was on the Lusitania when it was torpedoed on 7th May 1915. It was not known initially whether she had survived but the good news came when her brother and his family ‘were at church’ in Swansea.
Reference: WaW0276
Newspaper report
Report of the survival of Polly Phillips, stewardess on the Lusitania. Cambria Daily Leader 10 May 1915
Margaret Elizabeth Foulkes (née Hughes)
Place of birth: Sandycroft, Flintshire
Service: Stewardess, S S Lusitania, 1915
Death: 1915/07/05, S S Lusitania, Drowning / Boddi
Memorial: Mercantile Marine Memorial to the Missing, Tower Hill, London
Notes: Margaret Foulkes, was born in Wales and brought up in Liverpool. She was a widow, and had worked on the Lusitania before the final voyage; stewardesses seem to have been employed by the voyage. She drowned when the ship was torpedoed on May 7th 1915, aged 42. Her body was never found.
Reference: WaW0324
Mary Ann Whaley
Place of birth: Cardiff ?
Service: Store hand, WFC [Womens Forage Corps]
Death: 1918, Influenza / Y Fliw
Notes: Mary Ann was a store hand in the Women’s Forage Corps, which sourced and processed feed for the Army’s horses. Over one million horses and mules were used by the British Army during the War, mostly for haulage and transport. Mary Ann was 39 when she died; her next of kin was her father Thomas Whaley of Cardiff.
Sources: Femina Patriae Defensor Paris 1934
Reference: WaW0221
Nominal Roll
Mary Ann’s name on Nominal Roll of Officials and Member[s] who have died while serving in the W.F.C
Mary Ann Holland (née ?)
Place of birth: Talywain ?
Service: Storewoman, WRAF
Notes: Mrs Holland was demobilised from the WRAF in October 1919, when she was 30 years old. Her work was described as ‘very good’. She enrolled and worked in London, and was married, though we do not know her maiden name. Her name appears on the Roll of Honour at Pisgah Chapel, Talywain.
Reference: WaW0292
Discharge certificate
Demobilisation certificate for Mary Ann Holland, 17th October 1919.
Roll of Honour
Mrs M A Holland’s name on the Roll of Honour at Pisgah Chapel, Talywain.
Emily Evans
Service: Street vendor of patent medicines
Notes: Emily Evans of Pembroke Dock was fined £7 for selling potatoes at above the fixed price of 1¾ d per pound. Two witnesses claimed to have been charged 6d and 5½ d per pound. Mrs Evans refused to tell the police where she had purchased the potatoes.
Reference: WaW0304
Newspaper report
Report of charge against Emily Evans for profiteering. Cambria Daily Leader 14th May 1917.
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