Early Life
Wheeldon was born in Derby, England, the daughter of a locomotive driver who had worked as a house servant when young. She married and was subsequently estranged from a mechanic who became an alcoholic. They had three daughters - Nellie (born 1888), Hettie Wheeldon (born 1891) and Winnie (Mason) (born 1893), as well as a son - William Marshall Wheeldon (Willie) (born 1892), who was refused status as a conscientious objector when he refused to be conscripted in 1916.
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