Maud remained living at the family home long after her siblings had left and then followed a religious career and embarked on a life’s work as a missionary.  First travelling to 1910 at the age of 33, she returned to London after the Great War, having been living in India.  She became a ‘Deaconess Missionary’ specifically trained in ministry to women.  In the 1920s she departed for a second stint in India, returning to the UK again in 1933, at the age of 57.

At the outbreak of the second world war, Maud was to be found in Dagenham, Essex where she was a Deaconess Church Worker residing at 165 Stamford Road.  After the war she was travelling again, returning home from South Africa in 1949 on the Union Castle mail ship, Pretoria Castle, having travelled cabin class.  She was now aged 73 and may have been visiting one or other of her two brothers who settled in South Africa.

Maud died at Vicarage Road in Staines in 1966 at the age of 90.  Her estate was valued at £12,891 (around £211,000 at 2025 values).  By coincidence, her probate valuation record sits on the very same page as that of her younger brother Francis, who died the same year.