April Ashley April Ashley April Ashley, MBE (born 29 April 1935) is an English model and restaurant hostess. She was outed as a transgender woman by the "Sunday People" newspaper in 1961 and is one of the earliest British people known to have had sex reassignment surgery. Born George Jamieson in Sefton General Hospital, Liverpool, she was one of six surviving children of a Roman Catholic father, Frederick Jamieson, and a Protestant mother, Ada Brown Jamieson. In her childhood in Liverpool, Ashley suffered from both calcium deficiency, requiring weekly calcium injections at the Alder Hey Children's Hospital, and bed-wetting, resulting in her
Christina Jamieson was called the Shetland Folklore Society and it met to practice traditional dances. Men would meet at her house, Twageos House, to perform dances with swords to music. She also spent working to transcribe church records. In 1935 she was still suffering with asthma and she left the islands where she had spent her life to emigrate to New Zealand in the hope of gaining some respite. She died in Nelson in New Zealand in 1942. Christina Jamieson Christina Jamieson (1864–1942) was a British writer and suffragist known for her association with the Shetland Isles. Jameson was born to Robert