Find Ancestors

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

  • The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
  • You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
  • And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
  • The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Boards

Quick Search

Single word search

Tools

Findmypast DNA Banner

Icons

  • New posts
  • No new posts
  • Thread closed
  • Stickied, new posts
  • Stickied, no new posts

Life in a convent

Login to Add Reply Watch This
ProfilePosted byOptionsPost Date

Robyn

Robyn Report 22 Dec 2007 07:46

Trying to find information on two of my grand aunts, AFTER they entered the convent, dose this convent still exist and do they keep any information on any of their past sisters.

How can I find out about their life in the convent

Both are the daughters of Joseph Smetzer and Marian (Mary Ann) Plunkett married 1/1/1870 in St George Hanover Square Middlesex


Marian May Smetzer

born abt 8th May 1872, Kensington, England
Christened 28th Oct 1879 , St Mary`s, Clapham, England.
Died 1 March 1942. Buried Hendon Convent.

Marian May became Sister Mary Ethelreda, of the Handmaids of the Lord. Convent was at St Boniface Doves Hill Crescent. Also her sister Rose, at the same place.


1901 Census Hendon, Middlesex England RG 13/1227
St Joseph's Covent Boarding School

Ethelareda Smetzer 28 School Teacher b. Kensington, London

Rose Smetzer
born abt 17th Sept 1874 , Steyning, England
Died: 8 December 1964 or 1965

Rose became Sister Magdaline of the Handmaids of the Lord. Lived at St Boniface Convent Doves Hill Crescent Endsbury Park Bournemouth Eng.

Rose sent from Cirencester to Hendon for nursing.

Aged 38 when mother Marian SMETZER died on 14 November 1917 [from Marian's death cert]


Rose and Marian May were boarders and when they finished their schooling they were afraid to face the "big bad world" and decided to become nuns; this would have been in their mid-twenties. .