Reference code
DWL/PPS/24.229
Level of description
Sub-fonds
Title
Letters and papers relating to Pioneer Sisters
Scope and content
Letters and other papers relating to two women workers associated with the Pioneer Preachers, Lydia Seymour and Bertha Annie Knight, who commenced work in February 1913, firstly whilst in domestic employment. A few months later they moved to 21 St. Paul’s Road, Canonbury and c. April 1914 to 27 Carnarvon Road, Stratford, then c. July 1916 to 23 Carnarvon Road, Stratford. Miss Knight worked first at Kilburn and Miss Seymour was, by October 1913, working at Stratford, Forest Gate, and Walthamstow. On moving to Stratford they worked together, in cooperation with the Preachers and the London District Unitarian Society, at Stratford, Forest Gate, and Walthamstow, making their reports to the London District Unitarian Society. Miss Seymour resigned on her marriage to A.J. Heale in December 1916 and Miss Knight resigned in July 1917, when the work of the Pioneer Sisters ended.