The birth of Caroline Dorothea Simpson was registered in Stockport, Cheshire, England during the first quarter of 1887. Her parents were William and Rachel Maria Simpson, nee Corbett. She appears on the passenger list of the "New York" and arrived New York on 19 November 1917. She visited her sister Mary Fuller in Woban, Massachusetts, USA.

The Annual monitor for 1915, being an Obituary of the members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland, from October 1, 1913, to September 30, 1914

William Simpson, Whaley Bridge, Stockport, Cheshire, England
John Ruskin spoke of his own father as "an entirely honest merchant," and this description may truthfully be applied to William Simpson. He believed that in a business life ample opportunities are afforded for a man to put his religion into practice; and throughout his business career he looked upon his work as a solemn trust. But the claims of citizenship he recognised also, and upon a requisition, signed by both political parties of his ward, he accepted a seat in the Manchester City Council in 1893. Serving on a number of committees, he found special interest and in?uence on the Art Gallery and Technical School Committees, and he was elected one of the Council Directors on the Ship Canal Board. Subsequently, as a Borough Magistrate and as a Governor of the Manchester Grammar School he found further spheres of work.
By the force of his own example he was singularly successful in inducing others to give time and money to the public welfare, whilst keeping himself in the background.
To quote the words of one who knew him well: "William Simpson had an atmosphere of his own, of which no one who met him could fail to be conscious. It was an atmosphere in which a mean action looked very mean; in which a straight course seemed inevitable, and in which the odds against it were never counted if any line of action was felt to be right. He could be silent, grimly silent, on occasion, but those to whom he unbosomed himself - especial1y if their position or their actions called forth his sympathy - can never forget the unselfish and beautiful nature then revealed to them. Those who had the happiness of knowing him 'will long feel - as John Morley said of John Stuart Mill - 'the presence of his character about them, making them ashamed of what is indolent or selfish, and encouraging them to all disinterested labour, both in trying to do good, and in trying to find out what the good is - which is harder.' "