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Name: McDONELL, Cecily Worsfold 'Sister Mac', Miss

Nee: daughter of Ronald William McDonell

Birth Date: 1893 Shooters Hill, London

Death Date: 4.12.1956 Nairobi

Last Date: 1956

Profession: Nurse, 'Florence Nightingale' of Kenya. Nursed for over 35 years. The McDonell Memorial Nursing Training Centre in Nairobi was named after her.

Area: Childhood at Limuru, Box 5 Nairobi

Book Reference: Gillett, EAWL, Hut, Barnes, R. Jolley, Gazette

General Information:

Source: Ronald Bevan Jolley
Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - C.W. McDonell, British, age 63, died 4/12/56
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Voters List
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Nairobi South - Cecily Worsfold McDonald, Nursing Sister, Box 979, Nbi.
Midwives' Roll - enrolled 13 Aug 1921

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