Aurelia was a midwife and was one of England's most celebrated midwives in the first part of the seventeenth century.
[4] The registers of St Andrew, Holborn, has shown that Aurelia Florio's handling of her patients was commemorated by the unusual name Aurelia being bestowed on girls she had delivered (ten more girls in the parish were also baptised with this name ending in 1639).
Her skills showed that her knowledge of Latin, the language of medical texts, gave her expertises that very few women had at that time.
Her bearings were "azure, a heliotrope or issuing from a stalk sprouting out two leaves vert, in chief the sun in splendour".
[5] She comes to notice as a midwife when she signed on 2 July 1634 an examination that had been made of ten women who were alleged to be witches.