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Flora Jane Timms was born on December 5th, 1876 in Juniper Hill in northeast Oxfordshire, the eldest of twelve children to Albert Timms, a stonemason, and Emma, a nursemaid. Only she and five siblings survived.

Flora was educated at the parish school in the village of Cottisford and described as ''altogether her father''s child''.

When she was 14, In 1891, Flora moved to start work as a counter cler...