Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

I'm curious about a gravestone I came across at Walton Parochial Cemetery and wondered if anybody was able to help with who she was or why this comment was put on her headstone. "Who gave her life for her country"



The copy of the burial record makes me wonder if she was involved in the war in some way.

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Name:
Sarah Mabel Gash

Gender:
Female
Birth Date:
25 Aug 1878
Birth Place:
Cork, Ireland
Father's Name:
Maskelyne Alcock Gash
Mother's name:
Mary Elizabeth Hayes Gash

Wondering if she came back from the war in a poorly condition, a nurse perhaps.

1901 Irish Census

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/p ... s/1089486/


1911 Irish Census

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/p ... gh/355013/



Blue

I think this is her, http://www.byteboss.com/view.aspx?id=15 ... cedees+(5)

Apparently the VAD records are with the Red Cross and are being digitised. It might be worth contacting them to see if it's possible to get a copy of Sarah Mabel's records and hopefully it may give some indication of when/ how she died.

I've corrected the 1901 Irish Census link she is recorded as Mabel S Gash in 1901.


Blue

Handy,
you will have to press your translate button, lists of nurses, POWs,

http://www.croix-rouge.fr/Actualite/11- ... taires-752

This is Sarah Mabel Gash's parents' marriage:-

Marriage Place: St Nicolas, Cork, Ireland
Marriage Date: 12 May 1868
Groom: Maskelyne Alcock Gash
Marital Status: Single
Father: Thomas Gash
Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Hayes
Marital Status: Single
Father: Richard Hayes
FHL Film Number: 101529
Reference ID: 62

It's possible that the house Sarah Mabel Gash grew up in is the same one her grandfather Thomas Gash had at the time of the Griffith's Valuation. She came from a wealthy background. The house could be the same place they are living in on the 1901 Irish Census. If so it's still standing and there is a photo of it here:-

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/Lande ... sp?id=3572


Gash of County Cork:-

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/Lande ... sp?id=2820


Blue

She is recorded on a Memorial to Liverpool Nurses in the Anglican Cathedral

According to this link the Gash family were part of a group of Puritan settlers from Somerset, England who settled in County Cork, Ireland in 1620:-

http://clampett.org/story/bandon.html


Blue

Link to the Great War Forum

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forum ... 29&page=54

Wow thanks a lot for all that, knew I could rely on you all. It's more curiosity than anything, no relation to me, but don't you think she sounds interesting?

Hilary her dod will be shortly before the burial so no need for that date, but I am hoping to view the records of Rainhill next week which I hope will tell a bit more about her.

I had to laugh at the Great War Forum
"Sarah Mabel GASH
Photo of grave (which is in a cute little farm now!)"

I thought her VAD records would give more on her life as a nurse and how she ended up in Rainhill.

Education Officer wrote:I thought her VAD records would give more on her life as a nurse and how she ended up in Rainhill.

Yes I am following both lines of enquiry. So far have an arrangement to view her admission and death records in Rainhill, but have to wait for the Red Cross to reply.

Only an acknowledgement so far from the Red Cross. Despite no report from them I feel from the report from the hospital that she must have gone through quite an ordeal as she was quite confused and disorientated on admission to Rainhill, having previously been admitted to Mill Road and the Military Hospital at Fazakerley.

Her death was caused by pulmonary tuberculosis, which seems to have been diagnosed only at the end of March and died 24 May, 1918.

I feel very sad for her.