Hi Mary, Margaret Ann Scarffe was my mother in Law's aunt. We know she went to Australia in 1914 at the request of Dr. Lionel? Wood. Apparently he was setting up a hospital and wanted her to go and work with him in the theatre as he was a surgeon and she had been a surgical nurse. I think she is the Margaret you mentioned as that is the only one I can find in emigration records. Her parents were Joseph and Elizabeth Scarffe and she was born in 1877 in Douglas. Her age at death ties in with her birth date.
Can anyone shed any light on how and where she would have done her training and the life she would have led as a nurse. I believe things were very different then.
Thanks again Mary.
Regards Lynda