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Frances Marcella Sherwood, commonly known as Marcella,<ref name=Wagner.95>Wagner, pp. 95-97</ref> was born in early 1878 in [[Kimberworth]], [[Rotherham]], [[South Yorkshire]].<ref>Sheffield Archives; Sheffield, England; Parish Registers; Reference: PR116/1/3; Additional Reference: PR116/3</ref> She was one of four daughters and two sons of Edward Purvis Sherwood, sometime rector of [[Baginton]].<ref name=Stafford1948>{{cite news |title=Lady doctor for Pakistan |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000525/19480109/010/0001 |access-date=11 September 2025 |work=Staffordshire Sentinel |date=9 January 1948 |page=1|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=Rugely1966>{{cite news |title=Deaths |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003294/19660115/104/0007 |access-date=11 September 2025 |work=Rugeley Times |date=15 January 1966 |page=7|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref> |
Frances Marcella Sherwood, commonly known as Marcella,<ref name=Wagner.95>Wagner, pp. 95-97</ref> was born in early 1878 in [[Kimberworth]], [[Rotherham]], [[South Yorkshire]].<ref>Sheffield Archives; Sheffield, England; Parish Registers; Reference: PR116/1/3; Additional Reference: PR116/3</ref> She was one of four daughters and two sons of Edward Purvis Sherwood, sometime rector of [[Baginton]].<ref name=Stafford1948>{{cite news |title=Lady doctor for Pakistan |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000525/19480109/010/0001 |access-date=11 September 2025 |work=Staffordshire Sentinel |date=9 January 1948 |page=1|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=Rugely1966>{{cite news |title=Deaths |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003294/19660115/104/0007 |access-date=11 September 2025 |work=Rugeley Times |date=15 January 1966 |page=7|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref> |
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Sherwood joined the [[Church of England Zenana Missionary Society]] in 1904, and was first posted to work at [[Batala]], Punjab, where she remained until being furloughed back to England in 1915.<ref name=Kenilworth1920>{{cite news |title=Baginton lady in an Indian riot |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003066/19200313/046/0003 |access-date=11 September 2025 |work=Kenilworth Advertiser |date=13 March 1920 |page=3|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref> When she returned to India, she joined the mission at Amritsar.<ref name=Kenilworth1920/> For a short while she taught at a shool for girls in Singapore.<ref>{{cite news |title=Funeral of missionary worker |work=Rugely Times |date=28 May 1966 |page=9}}</ref> |
Sherwood joined the [[Church of England Zenana Missionary Society]] in 1904, and was first posted to work at [[Batala]], Punjab, where she remained until being furloughed back to England in 1915.<ref name=Kenilworth1920>{{cite news |title=Baginton lady in an Indian riot |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003066/19200313/046/0003 |access-date=11 September 2025 |work=Kenilworth Advertiser |date=13 March 1920 |page=3|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref> When she returned to India, she joined the mission at Amritsar.<ref name=Kenilworth1920/> For a short while she taught at a shool for girls in Singapore.<ref>{{cite news |title=Funeral of missionary worker |work=Rugely Times |date=28 May 1966 |page=9}}</ref> |
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Frances Marcella Sherwood, commonly known as Marcella Sherwood (c.1878 – 14 May 1966), was an English missionary with the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, remembered for her connection to Reginald Dyer’s Crawling Order following her assault in Amritsar on 10 April 1919 during the Punjab disturbances.
Early life
Frances Marcella Sherwood, commonly known as Marcella,[1] was born in early 1878 in Kimberworth, Rotherham, South Yorkshire.[2] She was one of four daughters and two sons of Edward Purvis Sherwood, sometime rector of Baginton.[3][4]
Early missionary career
Sherwood joined the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society in 1904, and was first posted to work at Batala, Punjab, where she remained until being furloughed back to England in 1915.[5] When she returned to India, she joined the mission at Amritsar.[5] For a short while she taught at a shool for girls in Singapore.[6]
Amritsar 1919
On 10 April 1919, Sherwood, then around age 45 years and superintendant of the city mission schools, cycled alone into the Ahluwia neighbourhood of Amritsar to close Bagian di Katra Shcool, one of five schools she was responsible for.[1] Though warned by locals not to go further, she continued until she had to abandon her bike and run, until she was caught and beaten by kicks, sticks and shoes by a group of Indian men who left her once they believed her to be dead.[1][7]
Dyer visited Sherwood at Ram Bagh on 19 April, and in response, created the Crawling Order.[8][9]
Sherwood declined compensation from the British Government in India, requesting instead the value of her stolen watch and bicycle.[10] When asked by the Coventry Standard as to why she declined it she replied “I hear not the cries of ‘kill kill’ in that street but the shouts of leave her alone, she is a woman, raised in another street. It was Indians who rescued me, an Indian house that gave me shelter, Indian hands that first dressed my wounds, that is full compensation. I would not have it otherwise”.[5]
Death
Sherwood oulived her sisters and died on 14 May 1966.[11]
References
- ^ a b c Wagner, pp. 95-97
- ^ Sheffield Archives; Sheffield, England; Parish Registers; Reference: PR116/1/3; Additional Reference: PR116/3
- ^ “Lady doctor for Pakistan”. Staffordshire Sentinel. 9 January 1948. p. 1. Retrieved 11 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ “Deaths”. Rugeley Times. 15 January 1966. p. 7. Retrieved 11 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ a b c “Baginton lady in an Indian riot”. Kenilworth Advertiser. 13 March 1920. p. 3. Retrieved 11 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ “Funeral of missionary worker”. Rugely Times. 28 May 1966. p. 9.
- ^ Wagner, p. 249
- ^ Wagner, pp. 192-199
- ^ “Warwickshire villages: no.16 Baginton”. Coventry Herald. 15 July 1921. p. 9. Retrieved 11 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ “English woman assaulted by natives wants no compensation”. London Daily Chronicle. 26 February 1920. p. 6. Retrieved 11 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ “Deaths”. Rugeley Times. 27 August 1966. p. 5. Retrieved 11 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
