M's mother was a servant who became pregnant by her mistress' son. She was abandoned by her family and lived a "fallen life". M. had been living at a home run by the Bath Preventative Mission since August 1894. There is veiled discussion in the correspondence alluding to M. having been subject to sexual abuse and she had perhaps been involved in prostitution. M. went into the St Saviour's Home in Shrewsbury in May 1895. In 1896 she transferred to a Miss Cotton's Home of the Good Shepherd in Leytonstone, East London, which was not a Waifs and Strays' Society Home.
