Papers of Alice Rhoda Jenkins (nee Davis)
- Reference:GB 1199 C911
- Dates of Creation:c.1895-1980
- Physical Description:0.12m
Scope and Content
Personal papers, certificates and photographs of Alice Rhoda Jenkins (1881-1980.)
Contents include:
Hand-written short biography, supplied by nephew and executor Mr S. C. Davies, 59 Bath Road, Morriston (2 pages).
Typescript biography, drawing closely on hand-written short biography above (1 page).
Certificates:
Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute for Nurses Certificate (includes record of training and employment) 3089, awarded 17 Dec 1918, with mailing tube.
Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute for Nurses Certificate (includes record of training and employment) 3089, awarded 21 Jul 1914.
General Nursing Council for England and Wales Registered Nurse (general) certificate 28421, 15 Feb 1924.
Letter accompanying General Nursing Council for England and Wales Registered Nurse certificate, 29 Feb 1924.
Receipt for registration fee from General Nursing Council for England and Wales, 2 Jul 1923.
Carmarthenshire Infirmary Probationary Nurse certificate, Dec 1905.
Central Midwives Board certificate 31562, 25 Jun 1910.
The College of Nursing Ltd Registration Certificate 18115, 29 May 1920 (mounted on card).
Metropolitan Asylums Board, Brook Hospital, official testimonial, 15 Feb 1905 (very fragile).
Alice Rhoda Jenkins (nee David,) was born on the 25th Oct 1881 at Vicrage Road, Morriston and was one of seven children. In 1914 she married Mr Harry Jenkins, chief of Gilbertsons Steel Works at Pontardawe. They had one child, a daughter called Lillian. Her husband died in 1940 and their daughter died in 1944. She served as a district nurse for 2-3 years for the Swansea Corporation (now West Glamorgan) in Morriston during the late 1800s and was awarded a probationary nurse certificate in 1905. She qualified as a midwife in 1910 and recieved a Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute for Nurses Certificate in 1914. She also served as a district nurse at Stoke Bishop during the late 1920s and early 1930s. She dies on the 6 February 1980, in Morriston aged 99.
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