Aurelia Molins or Aurelia Florio was an English midwife.
14 Facts About Aurelia Molins
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Aurelia Molins is known for being the daughter of the famous lexicographer John Florio.
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Aurelia Molins's father was John Florio and her mother was Anna Soresollo, who died of plague between 1592 and 1593.
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Aurelia Molins's father was a famous lexicographer and language tutor at the court of James I of England.
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Aurelia Molins's siblings included Joane who was born in Oxford in 1585 and Edward who was born in 1588.
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Aurelia Molins was married before 1603 to the surgeon James Molins.
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Aurelia Molins was apprenticed to William Clowes, surgeon to Elizabeth I, and it is thought that Clowes introduced him to Aurelia.
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Aurelia Molins was a midwife and was one of England's most celebrated midwives in the first part of the seventeenth century.
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The registers of St Andrew, Holborn, has shown that Aurelia Molins Florio's handling of her patients was commemorated by the unusual name Aurelia Molins being bestowed on girls she had delivered.
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Aurelia Molins's skills showed that her knowledge of Latin, the language of medical texts, gave her expertises that very few women had at that time.
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Meanwhile, Aurelia Molins was caring for her own fifteen children who were born between 1605 and 1622.
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Aurelia Molins's husband was awarded his on the following day.
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Aurelia Molins's bearings were "azure, a heliotrope or issuing from a stalk sprouting out two leaves vert, in chief the sun in splendour".
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Aurelia Molins's will discusses his debts but mentions a gold ring that he leaves to his daughter and another diamond ring which is in the possession of Aurelia's husband.