[2] In 1864 the Tracterian Revd Michael Ferrebee Sadler took over from the Reverend John Donne at St Paul's in Bedford.

[2] She had readied herself for a life of caring by her work on a fever ward and two years she spent with Nursing Sisters of the Church of England in Brompton Square.

As a result of her good works her community earned some respect and the gift of a house as a base from a well-wisher in Bristol.

There is a plaque on 9 Bromham Road in Bedford recording her life and the St Etheldreda’s Home for Orphans which operated there.

[3] The local museum had a gallery for famous people from Bedford and the women included suffragist Amy Walmsley, prophet and messiah Mabel Barltrop and Eagles.