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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Ridgway, Frances (Dodd)
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Description area
Dates of existence
1884 - 1973
History
Frances Ridgway (née Frances Dodd) was born February 6, 1884 to Dr. Marcus Dodd and Sarah Rigby in Bridgeport, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. She was baptized at St. Anne’s Church in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia on February 8, 1884. She had two older siblings, Harry Dodd and Catherine Dodd. During World War I she served as a nurse in Queen Alexandra’s Nursing Reserve in England. She married Allan Ridgway, a native of Manchester, England, and the two settled in North Sydney, Nova Scotia. She died at the age of 88 in 1973.