Early & devoted workers in the Chelsea Temperance Society. Parents of Robert. We found a McCurrey grave in Brompton (pt1) cemetery which we believe holds Margaret, James and their son Robert. If this is correct then their details are:
Margaret: buried 1866 aged 71,
James: buried 1881 aged 81,
Robert: buried 1869 aged 41.
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James & Margaret McCurrey
To the memory of James & Margaret McCurrey, early & devoted workers i...
Born as Catherine Bywater. Founded the Band of Mercy movement in Britain. She also campaigned against slavery but we can find no details. Her home, Earlham Grove House, built c.1865, has also been...
Founded as the Labourer's Friend Society by Lord Shaftesbury intending to improve working class conditions. It was keen on the provision of allotments. 1844 it changed its name to the Society for I...
President of the British Women's Temperance Association , 1890 - 1903, founded of the first industrial farm for inebriate women and set up a home for training workhouse children. Born in London as...
The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in England and the United States. Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society ...
Funded from Count Woronzow's will. Built in 1836 and then re-built on the same site in 1965. Occupy the west corner at the junction of St John’s Wood Terrace and Woronzow Road. Lots more info at...
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