Aunt Dora

In we go. “This should be interesting” I hear the family think - well, I hope it will be once I’ve got more than the bare bones down. I’ll add as I find things out, so this blog will be updated and changed.

Dora Wright was in 1873 in Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland, probably at Alticry House. Her father was Hugh Wright (b.1831- d.1911) and Margaret Bell (b.1833 - d.1911). According to the UK Census on 3 April 1881 she was aged 8 and living at Alticry. She had two older sisters (Mary and Annie) and 5 brothers (Duncan, Hugh, Leslie, Graham and Angus)

All very hum-drum so far, but then surprisingly, I found that she was sent as a teen to school in Schleswig-Holstein in the town of Glucksburg, the most northernmost German settlement near the Danish border. Why would a Scottish family send their youngest daughter there?

This photo was in Aunt Dora’s belongings.  Presumably it is of the school.

 Anyway, her dream was to study medicine at Cambridge, and I have a receipt for an entrance exam, so she did go.

The next document I have is of a St John’s Ambulance certificate.

There’s also a Beekeeper’s Certificate.