Biography of Margaret Cecilia PARSONS
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Biography of Margaret Cecilia PARSONS
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Margaret Cecilia Parsons was born on 15 July 1873 in Liverpool, Lancashire. She was known as Cecilia. She was baptised in St.Anthony's church in Scotland Road on 20 July. The 1881 census shows her at the family home at 31 Everton Brow in Liverpool. Ten years later when the 1891 census was taken, she was staying her sister Mary Josephine Hughes at 8 Gilda Crescent in Eccles.
The 1901 census records Cecilia at the boarding house of Elizabeth Bates at 25 Overton Street in West Derby, Liverpool. Also at that address was her sister Theresa and their occupation was given as Typewriter.
A description of Cecelia in 1925 gives her height as 4'11", the colour of her eyes as hazel, her hair as gray and her complezion as fair. At that time she was a mission teacher at St.Mary Joseph Independant Girls School in Port of Spain, Trinidad. On 29 April that year, she sailed aboard SS Matura from Port of Spain to New York, arriving on 8 May for a six month period. She was travelling with colleague Hilda Woellwarth.
In 1929, Cecelia's residence was at Corpus Christi House in Trinidad. On 24 February that year, she sailed aboard SS Lady Hawkins from Demerara in Guyana to New Brunswick in Canada, arriving on 11 March. Her residence was to be Good Shepherd Convent in Montreal, Quebec, and her profession remained that of Teacher.
Cecelia remained unmarried and she died in Montreal, Canada on 16 January 1963.