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Person
Authorized form of name
Purdon, Robina Macfarlane | 1897-1935 | student of the Glasgow and West of Scotland College of Domestic Science
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- Purdon, Ruby
- Stephens, Ruby
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Description area
Dates of existence
1897-1935
History
Robina M Purdon (known as Ruby) was born in 1897 in Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. She was educated at Alva Academy before attending the Glasgow and West of Scotland College of Domestic Science (Incorporated) in Glasgow, Scotland, from at least 1917 until 1918. While at the College she studied laundry and cookery, housework, house management and needlework. After leaving college she was employed as a domestic science teacher in Plymouth, Devon, England. She left work when she married in 1924, and her name changed to Ruby Stephens. She died in 1935.
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Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, 1897- c1917
Glasgow, Scotland, c1917-1918
Plymouth, Devon, England, c1918-1924
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Functions, occupations and activities
Student of the Glasgow and West of Scotland College of Domestic Science (Incorporated), c1917-1918
Domestic science teacher, c1918-1924
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GB 1847
Rules and/or conventions used
ISAAR(CPF): International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families, International Council on Archives (2nd edition, 2003); Rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names, National Council on Archives (1997).
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Created by Kirsty Menzies, 6 March 2024