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Helen Acquroff : ウィキペディア英語版 | Helen Acquroff
Helen Acquroff (12 October 1831 - 18 September 1887) was a musician, pianist, music teacher, singer and poet who was born and lived in the Newington area of Edinburgh. She was involved in the Temperance Movement. == Biography == Helen was the second eldest of 10 children: Elizabeth (born 1830), Mary Ann (1833), Thomson Paul (1834), Alexander Fletcher (1836), Ann Paul (1838), John (1839), Susan Carter (1842), Sophia Sarah (1843), Robert Wingfield (1846). Their parents were John Acquroff (1795), a Russian hairdresser born in St Petersburg (a naturalised British subject) and Sophia Campbell Fletcher (22 May 1808) from Ardelach, Nairn. They married in 1829. Helen was visually impaired from birth and became totally blind when she was 11 years old. She attended the Blind Asylum School (this later became the Royal Blind Asylum and School (then Royal Blind School, part of the Royal Blind) which at that time would have been located at Nicolson Street, and she later taught there.〔 At the time of the 1841 Census the family were living at 8 Muse Lane. She remained unmarried and had a son James, born on 2 August 1862 at 20 Rose Street in Edinburgh. In 1871 Helen was living with her parents and son at 26 South Richmond Street and in 1881, after her father's death, she was living with her mother and her son, then an unemployed Hairdresser at 41 Clerk Street. Helen died of Nephritis at 51 Clerk Street, Edinburgh, aged 55.〔
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