Machakos - WW1 - The nurse Miss Ware arrived to help Mrs Vivien Percival with the birth of her second child at Potha.

Machakos - Daddy [Philip Percival] used to tell the story about Miss Ware, in her starched uniform, dodging round the back verandah trying to avoid the elders of the farm spitting on the new baby for good fortune when she took it down to be inspected.

Red 25 - Matron, Parklands Nursing Home

Midwives' Roll Enrolled as midwife 29 Oct 1903, Northampton 

East African Standard 23 Apr 1932 Miss Ware who had lived in Nairobi for some 14 years, and who returned to England early in 1925, has died of pneumonia in Plymouth. Many will still remember her Parklands Nursing Home where she did such good service for many years. She was a fearless and most capable woman and nurse with friends all over the colony, and had several extraordinary experiences before and during the war while carrying out her duties in the up country districts. An attempt was once made upon her life by a native, when she received a throat wound. Miss Ware was voted for her kindness and hospitality, and her willingness to assist anyone with the best she could give both of personal service and skilled attention irrespective of fees. She was originally trained at Cardiff and belonged to a West Country family. Her mother aged 90, who she was nursing at the time, also died within a day or two of her daughter's sudden death as a consequence of the shock. Miss Ware will be well remembered by many of our older settlers and quite a proportion of the rising generation born in the colony who were helped into the world by her.