Isabel Zendal

Rectress of the Corunna Foundling Home and the only woman on the Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition (1803-1813), responsible for the care of the foundling boys whose arms carried the smallpox vaccine across the Atlantic and the Pacific. Her surname appears in the documents in several variants (Zendala, Sendales, Cendales); she remained in Mexico, where her final whereabouts are unrecorded.