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MARY J MacLEOD was born in Somerset, educated in Bath and qualified as a state registered nurse in Bristol.

Mary J. MacLeod qualified as a nurse in England and has lived in Aden (now Yemen), the United States, Sweden, and Saudi Arabia, as well as her husband George's.

Mary J MacLeod was born in Somerset, where she grew up and was educated in Bath.

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Mary J. MacLeod qualified as a nurse in England and has lived in Aden (now Yemen), the United States, Sweden, and Saudi Arabia, as well as her husband George's native Scotland. She lives now in Ascot in Berkshire, England.

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In 1970, Nurse Mary-J and her husband George decided to give up the hectic pace of life in the south of England, and try a simpler, sturdier sort of existence on a windy island in the Hebrides. Although George had been born in Glasgow and had ancestral ties to the islands, he had never even visited there, and neither of them "had the Gaelic", which so many islanders still spoke, some exclusively. Mary-J took the job as district nurse among the crofters and villagers in what even a rural girl show more like myself would surely see as a god-forsaken countryside. Long winters; brief summers; rugged but often eccentric crofters and their families living in far-flung cottages

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Mary McLeod Bethune

American educator and civil rights leader (1875–1955)

For other people named Mary Bethune, see Mary Bethune (disambiguation).

Mary McLeod Bethune
1949 portrait
Born	Mary Jane McLeod (1875-07-10)July 10, 1875 Mayesville, South Carolina, U.S.
Died	May 18, 1955(1955-05-18) (aged 79) Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S.
Occupations	Educator philanthropist humanitarian civil rights activist
Spouse	Albertus Bethune (m. 1898; sep. 1907)
Children	1

Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (née McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955^[1]) was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and presided over myriad African-American women's organizations including the National Association

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Description for More Tales From The Island NursePaperback. Filled with stories of the troubles, joys, skådespel and comedies endured bygd Macleod's patients and family alike, this makes a charming and humorous konto of community life on a small island in a bygone era. Series: Island sjuksköterska. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 222.
The much awaited second helping of Mary J. MacLeod's tales of `Papavray' in the 1970s and her experiences as the island's district nurse, culminating in her move to a very different new life in California. Mary J.'s anecdotes of life on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides brim with charm, humour and common sense. She shares heartwarming and amusing tales of crofters and ceilidhs, pesky cows and stubborn drivers, treacherous bogs and a suspected haunting, but also th