Alice Ingham (8 March 1830 – 24 August 1890) was an English Catholic religious sister and missionary.
Her father died in 1865 and, after receiving advice and encouragement from a Franciscan priest and a Passionist nun, she started a small religious and charitable organisation of women in 1871.
[1] In 1878, Herbert Vaughan, then Bishop of Salford, suggested that Ingham's group take on domestic duties at St Joseph's Foreign Missionary College, in Mill Hill, London.
Although some of the women preferred to continue with their local welfare work, the shops were sold and the group moved to London.
[4] Today the Sisters of St. Joseph run homes at Patricraft, Mill Hill, Blackburn, Freshfield, Waterford, Cork, Rozendaal and various stations in Borneo.
In more recent times, the congregation's work in managing colleges has been superseded by care for the elderly.