Genealogy in the Sun 2014 Else Churchill Our Women Ancestors

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Our Women Ancestors
• Else Churchill
• Genealogist
• Society of
Genealogists
• www.sog.org.uk

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Times Newspaper BMD Notice 1816

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4. mtDNA
Female Descent from Richard III
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Compiled by John Ashdown-Hill

5. Every woman in her place

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What to read

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Essential reading

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Women at Work –
London Post Office Directory 1886
• Eliza Ann Kimberly (Mrs)
Upholsterer
• Fanny Kimpton Kimpton (Miss)
Bookseller
• Georgiana Kimpton (Miss)
Corset Maker
• Sarah Kinchin (Mrs) Lighterman
• Kindergarten Emporium – Miss
E Frost Manageress
• Ann King (Mrs) Dressmaker
• Ann King (Mrs) Midwife
• Augusta King (Miss) White Lion
• Catherine Emma King (Mrs)
Servants registry

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Censuses

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Servants
• 1901 -1,330,783
female servants
• 1 in 3 Victorian
woman aged
between 15 and
25 in service
• migratory

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Search A2A, NRA & TNA Discovery

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VictorianLondon.org
National Vigilance Association Reports into
registries (NVArecords at Women’s Library)

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Parish Apprenticeships
Mary Harfoot aged 8
“housewifery” in 1775

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Jane Radburn orphan of the Asylum in
the parish of St Mary Lambeth
apprenticed in the art of housewifery

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City of London Apprentices
www.britishorigins.com

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Apprentices of Great Britain 1710-1774
SoG Data & FindmyPast
Indexed Images of IR/1 1710-1811on Ancestry
• 1773 Ann Mulliner to Eliz Revel
– Miliner
• 1764 Ann Mullens to Ruth
Stacey – Mantua Maker
• 1763 Margaret Mullens to
Edward Hobbs and Wife –
Mantua Maker
• 1764 Mary Mullens to
– Jane Nash –milliner
• 1764 Martha Mumford to Jos
Smith – not specified general
servant?

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Returns of Papists 1767 (Durham)

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Midwives licensed by the church

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Women and marriage –
a few statistics
• Mean age of marriage at least 26
• Earlier marriage in towns
• Significant numbers of spinsters
• Spinsters’ lives shorter
• Lots of cohabitation?

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Church Courts
Bawdy Courts or Court of
Scolds!

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London Consistory Depositions Index
www.britishorigins.com

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In a very base and bawdy manner
“It being proved by
Mary Fry and Ewen
Kissack that Isabel
Kissack reflected on
Alice Kissack in a
very base and bawdy
manner calling her
the wife of him that
had the stone privy
member “ Consistory
Court of Sodor &
Man

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Schedules of Penance
• Isabel Kissack asks forgiveness of congregation 1721 (Consistory
of Sodor & Man)
• Printed fornication before marriage form (Archdeaconry of
Nottingham)

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Nothing but occular inspection could enforce a stronger belief of
criminal conversation in Seasalter
“They appear, and deny any criminous
conv. But say she is his hired servant
who lives with him as housekeeper”
Consistory Court of Canterbury

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Separation from Bed and Board
Sarah Eves committed adultery with John Southam, an iron monger,
who was also found guilty of adultery at Warwick assizes prior to their
appearance in the church courts. Witnesses noted Sarah’s tendency to
leave the shutters open at night Consistory Court of Lichfield

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Women on Hard Times
Poor Law Records
Illegitimacy

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Examination of Mary Hall 1791

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Removal of Mary Hall
• Removed from
Woodbridge in
Suffolk to North
Elham in Norfolk
– presumably her
place of birth –
along with her
two bastard
children

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Bastardy Order - against William Bridger
father of Mary Morris’s child

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Bastardy order
against Elizabeth Cock & Horrace Neil 1819
Horrace Neil did begat the
bastard child and is ordered
by the Justices to pay for its
upkeep and the lying in of
Elizabeth. She is chargeable
to the parish in case she shall
not nurse and take care of the
child herself

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Sessions Records

33. Neglected Affiliation Order 1867
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Southwell Workhouse, Notts
Punishment Book

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MH 12 Poor Law Unions
Correspondence

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Trinity House Petitions at SoG
Index on SoG Data Online & findmypast

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Women in Court

38. Women in Court - Victims
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Hereford Times, October 1839. British Newspaper Archives

39. Women in Court - witnesses
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Mary Churchill, witness to child assault. Hereford Assizes,
Hereford Times 1864 (British Newspaper Archive)

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Madams

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Harris’s List

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Elizabeth Haddock d 1752–
Haddock’s Bagnios 1720-1740s
Wife of John Haddock “
Whoremaster General of
Covent Garden” … kept a string
of “coffee shops” or “millinery
shops”, and bagnios at Charing
Cross and Covent Garden.
Elizabeth’s will and inventory
shows a wealthy woman with
properties at Worton in
Isleworth. Fixtures and fittings
of the bagnio in Covent garden
included 32 beds and 14 dining
tables, a wine cellar of £165 8s
5d and silver ware worth twice
as much.

44. Fallen Women in Lime House 1871
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The fallen women very often don’t know either the names or ages of those men who
sleep with them. Their ages therefore were only guessed at

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Graduated poll tax for disbanding
the armies granted by Parliament,
1 1641-1660 (TNA E179) described in
Lists & Index Society Vols. 44, 54, 63,
75, 87. Laid down prescribed sums
from every one over the age of
sixteen and not in receipt of alms
according to status in life. Lowest
contribution six pence, the highest
£100. Catholics paid double, widows
a third. For printed returns see Texts
& Calendars I & II (Mullins). Listed in
Gibson & Dell.
2 This shows the assessment for
Waddesdon “The Ladye Dormer
being rated £20 being a recusant paid
£40”. TNA (E 179/244/4)
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Hearth Tax & Exemptions

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Women in Chancery – Bernau Index

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1.3m PCC Wills
144,302 widows
58,289 spinsters
13,515 wives

49. Women in Wills
wives, sisters and daughters
• …unto my son THOMAS ARROWSMITH … my messuages …
situate in Tattenhall Cheshire [and] in Beeston … subject to
the payment of the clear yearly sum of £12 … unto my loving
wife Elizabeth (executrix)
• Son JOSEPH ARROWSMITH £400 (from brother)
• Daughter RACHEL ARROWSMITH £150
• Grandson THOMAS DOD £10
• Daughter ALICE wife of THOMAS CHALLINER 20sh
• Daughter ELIZABETH wife of JOHN FENNA 20sh
• Daughter SARAH wife of ROBERT HINTON
• Daughter MARY wife of Thomas FAULKNER 20sh
• Daughter MARTHA wife of JOHN BAILY
Will dated 24 November 1727
Probate 7 December 1730 @ Consistory of Chester
Testator died 11 November 1730

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In the name of God amen
I give to the worst of women except being a whore
who is guilty of all ills , the daughter of Mr. Gramont
a Frenchman, who I have unfortunately married,
five and forty brass halfpence which will buy her a pullet
for her supper – a greater sum than her father can often make
for I have known when he had neither money nor credit for
such a purchase being the worst of men and his wife the
worst of women in debaucheries. Had I known their character I had
never married their daughter nor made myself unhappy.