Mother Superior of St Saviour's Priory at the time that the community moved from East Grinstead onto the Dunloe Street site, in 1866. When she died in 1923 a memorial fund was created to help complete the construction of the chapel. The 1940 homes for the elderly at Dunloe Street, London, E2 were named Mother Kate Homes in her memory.
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, expands upon the above. In addition to the information given on her , Mother Kate was born as Katherine Anne Egerton Warburton on 24 March 1840 in Warburton, Cheshire, the eldest of the five children of the Reverend James Francis Egerton Warburton (1807-1849) and Anne Egerton Warburton née Anne Stone (1820-1886). On 26 April 1840 she was baptised by her father at St Werburgh's Church, Wigsey Lane, Warburton, Lymm, Cheshire, where she is shown in the baptismal register as Egerton Warburton, Katherine Ann. The register confirms her date of birth and that her father was a clerk.
In the 1841 census she is recorded as Katherine Warburton, aged 1 year and living in The Rectory, Warburton, with her parents together with two male and four female servants.
When the 1851 census was undertaken she was shown as Catherine E. Warburton, aged 11 years and a scholar at home, living with her widowed mother, her four siblings: George Egerton Warburton (1844-1923); Geoffrey Egerton Warburton (1846-1925); Arthur Egerton Warburton (1848-1927) and Eleanor Werburgh Egerton Warburton (1849-1919), at the home of her maternal grandparents, George and Mary Stone in Blisworth, Northamptonshire, together with a footman, a page, a cook, a lady's maid, two housemaids and three female house servants. Her grandfather was a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Suffolk.
She was shown as Katherine A. E. Warburton in the 1861 census, aged 21 years, one of the six Sisters of Mercy at the St Margaret's House and Orphanage, High Street, East Grinstead, Sussex. This was under the charge of Sarah A. Gream - the Mother Superior and also listed were a cook, a housemaid and 33 female orphans aged from 3 to 15 years.
The 1881 census describes her as Katherine Warburton, aged 41 years and the Head Sister of Mercy occupying the four properties at 18, 20, 22 and 24 Great Cambridge Street, Haggerston, Shoreditch, Middlesex (now Greater London), with 17 other Sisters of Mercy, together with a cook and four housemaids.
She was again listed as Katherine Warburton in the 1891 census, aged 51 years and the Head Sister of Mercy at the St Saviour's Priory, 18-28 Great Cambridge Street, Haggerston, Shoreditch, London, with 18 other Sisters of Mercy, together with a cook and nine female general servants.
She was shown in the 1901 census as Katharine A. E. Warburton, aged 61 years and a Sister of Mercy residing at St Saviour's Hostel, 101-103 Freshfield Road, Brighton, Sussex, together with a housekeeper and a housemaid.
The 1911 census form was addressed to Miss Warburton at a convalescent home at 101-103 Freshfield Road, Brighton.
Her death, aged 83 years, was registered as Katherine A. E. Warburton in the 4th quarter of 1923 in the Shoreditch Registration District, London. Probate records list her as Warburton, Kate Egerton, otherwise Katherine Anne Egerton, otherwise Katharine Anne Egerton of St Saviour's Priory, Great Cambridge Street, Hackney Road, Middlesex, spinster who died on 18 October 1923. Probate was granted on 20 December 1920 to John Lamplugh Wickham, a Reserve Major, Scots Guards. Her effects totalled £6,004-16s-2d.
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