My Great x3 Aunt Mary (1855 - ????) was a domestic servant, and an elder sister of my Great Great Grandmother Bessie Staddon Edworthy (nee Nott) (1859 - 1919).
Mary was born around 1855 in Bampton, Devon, to William Nott, an agricultural labourer, and Grace Nott (nee Cobley) (about 27), a wool weaver.
Mary's birth doesn't seem to have been registered; however, she was baptised on 15th July 1855 in Bampton, Devon. At the time of Mary's baptism, the family lived at somewhere called Higher Ladwell, in or near Bampton.
Mary was the fourth of nine children (four sons and five daughters) and the eldest daughter:
- William 1850 - after 1861
- John Henry 1852 - after 1861
- Frederick 1853 - 1927 (74)
- Mary Emma 1855 - after 1871
- Eliza Lydia 1856 - 1869 (12)
- Bessie Staddon 1859 - 1919 (about 60)
- Walter 1860 - 1916 (55)
- Jessie Rose 1864 - 1947 (83)
- Agnes 1866 - 1924 (57)
By the time of younger sister Eliza's baptism in December 1856, the family have moved from Higher Ladwell to the High Street, seemingly also in Bampton, for Eliza was too baptised in that village.
By 1859, the family had moved to Morchard Bishop.
1861 Census:
As a teen, Mary was working as a domestic servant, living at St David's Hill, St David's, Exeter. For Trobridge family, headed by elderly John Trobridge, a master grocer.
I am presently struggling to find Mary on records after 1871. Did she move away, get married, pass away young?
Her employer, John Trobridge passed away in around July 1872 and his wife Mary Ann passed away in around October 1872. There was an auction of their household furniture in the September. Their daughter living at home, Jane, also married around this time. Teenage Mary would have had her employers' passing away, marrying and moving out, and the furniture of her place of work being sold off. What did she do after?
From the Express and Echo of 18th September 1872:
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