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Published on 17/04/2013
Margaret WOLSTENCROFT Died March 3rd 2013 at the age of nearly 90 years. Margaret was headmistress of Church End School on Foulness Island for 29 years from 1957 to 1986. As many children in the area will know and in the words of the School Inspector's Report "she provided a warm and safe learning experience for the children in her care. " Margaret continued to live on in the School House on her beloved Foulness Island for another 27 years until her death last month. In some ways she was almost wedded to Foulness, which gave her a sense of great peace and sanctuary. She was sad to see this changing over time as the island lost first its Community Centre, then the pub and finally the Church. Margaret always had a great love of history and to her great delight the old school now became a Heritage Centre for the Island, where she often helped out washing and cleaning pottery fragments, Margaret had a great love of travel and as a young woman she had trekked on her own all the way from Capetown to Cairo with nothing but a revolver for protection, using only local buses and whatever transport was available - very unusual in her day. She herself was a descendent of the Crozier family, Huguenot refugees who originally built the sea wall to protect Foulness Island. Until her death Margaret was Vice President of the National Council of Women, Southend Branch. The Funeral is at Southend Crematorium at 2pm, on Monday 22nd April, no flowers by request but donations to The Heritage Centre, Foulness Island.
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