Transcript

of

Mrs Mary Isabella Jordan [Obituary]

Trans. Devon. Assoc., vol.  XXXVIII, (1906), p. 37.

Prepared by Michael Steer

The obituary was read at the Association’s July 1906 Lynton meeting. The Jordan family in Teignmouth settled there as early as 1650. Mr Jordan’s father was Clerk to the Teignmouth Local Board, under the Local Government Act of 1856, and the Public Health Act of 1875, and was the first Clerk to the Teignmouth Urban District Council.  A post he resigned in 1900. He also took a great interest in educational work, and acted as Clerk to the Teignmouth School Board from its inception in 1875.  He in later years continued as correspondent to the school managers, from which post he retired in 1910, being succeeded by his son Mr. W F C Jordan. Mr and Mrs Jordan conjointly presented a paper entitled “West Teignmouth Church, dedicated to St James-the-Less” at the Association’s 1904 Teignmouth meeting - (see name index to this paper). Phthesis, the cause of Mrs Jordans early demise is a form of pulmonary tuberculosis or a similar progressive wasting disease. The obituary, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

Mrs. Mary Isabella Jordan. The news of the death of Mrs. Jordan, wife of Mr. W. F. C. Jordan, of Teignmouth, was received with much regret by the large circle of her friends by whom she was much beloved. She was the only surviving child of the Rev. James Metcalfe, for twenty-seven years Vicar of St. James, Teignmouth. Mr. Jordan was the local secretary at the last Teignmouth meeting of the Association, and his wife took a very active part in the arrangements and helped much in ensuring its success. On that occasion she read a paper on West Teignmouth Church. In the spring of 1905 she became ill of phthisis and rapidly becoming worse, died at Yelverton in August at the early age of 37.