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by keithold is a prodigal bagger on December 18th, 2009

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Where was Florence Nightingale born?

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  • by Barcaluv on December 18th, 2009

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    " Florence Nightingale was born into a rich, upper-class, well-connected British family at the Villa Colombaia, near the Porta Romana in Florence, Italy, and was named after the city of her birth. Florence's older sister Parthenope had similarly been named after her place of birth, a Greek settlement now part of the city of Naples.

    Her parents were William Edward Nightingale (1794–1874) and Frances ("Fanny") Nightingale née Smith (1789–1880). William Nightingale was born William Edward Shore. His mother Mary née Evans was the niece of one Peter Nightingale, under the terms of whose will William Shore not only inherited his estate Lea Hurst in Derbyshire, but also assumed the name and arms of Nightingale. Fanny's father (Florence's maternal grandfather) was the abolitionist William Smith."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_nightingale

    - Interesting; I always thought she was born in the British Isles.

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