Margaret Josephine FENN Sr [440]

  General Notes:

FENN : April 10 at Highfields, Forest-row, Sussex, the widow of Lieut. T.G. Fenn R.N. of a daughter.

Birth: June quarter, East Grinstead 2b 135 - FENN Margaret Josephine

Margaret Josephine Fenn
Christening Date: 3 May 1890
Christening Place: Forest row, Sussex,
Father: Theodore George Fenn
Mother: Margaret


Josephine is mentioned in a letter dated 11 Oct 1926 from Isabella Cotes nee Fenn to Harry Fenn in NZ.
"The East Grinstead Sisters may send Josephine to one of their schools to teach in South Africa this winter".

Josephine contracted scarlet fever as a child and lost her hair, she had an outgoing personality, and Nancy Hadwen remembers her brother Dick, describing her as a bit of a tom-boy. Nancy also remembers Josephine's amusment at the role of TV in entertaining her patients at the Convent in Chiswick.

Josephine was Sister Superior at the Home for the Dying now Trinity Hospice, Clapham Common London, then Sister Superior St Marys Convent Chiswick, London. She was a member of the Order of St Margarets, East Grinstead.

Society of St Margaret (SSM)
East Grinstead)
Founded 1855
Saint Margaret's Convent, East Grinstead, is one of the autonomous Houses which constitute the Society of St Margaret, founded by John Mason Neale. The Sisters' work is the worship of God, expressed in their life of prayer and service. They welcome visitors to a guest house, and are involved in spiritual direction, counselling and parish work. At Chiswick they care for elderly women in a nursing home and have a guest house. There are two branch houses in Sri Lanka.
St Mary's Convent & Nursing Home
Burlington Lane
Chiswick,
London W4 2QF
www.anglicancommunion.org/communities/index_initials.cfm

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 5 Apr 1891, 52 Hadlow Rd Tunbridge Kent. Josephine is recorded as Margaret J Fenn aged 1 born Forrest Row SSX

2. Census: England, 2 Apr 1911, Infirmary for West Sussex Chichester. Josephine is recorded as a dispenser aged 26 single born Forrest Row Sussex