biography
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Davies, Christian
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known as Mother Ross
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1667–1739)
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| biography:
| Soldier, born in Dublin, Ireland. She went to Flanders in search of her husband, Richard Welsh, who had been pressed into Marlborough's army. There she enlisted as a private under the name of Christopher Welsh, and fought in the Battle of Blenheim (1704) and other battles, eventually being reunited with her husband in 1706. When he was killed at the Battle of Malplaquet (1709), she married a grenadier, Hugh Jones, who was killed the following year. She returned to Dublin, where she married another soldier, called Davies. She died in Chelsea Pensioners' Hospital for old soldiers. |
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