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Margaret Lauderdale (1810-1885)

Individual Events and Attributes

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1885, Register Entry for Death of Margaret Lauderdale

  • Birth:

  • 19 Aug 1810

  • Simonburn, Northumberland2 1

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  • Address: Simonburn, Northumberland

    The 1851 Census gives her age (40) and her place of birth. Her baptismal record gives a specific date.

  • Baptism:

  • 6 Jan 1811 (age 0)

  • St Mungo's Parish Church2

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  • Address: Simonsburn, Northumberland

    The transcription of the baptismal record on the Family Search (LDS) website gives a surname of Latherdale. It is thought this may be a transcriptional error for Lauderdale. Also it is slightly unusual in the early 1800s to include the mother's maiden name. Her parents would have been at the service. Who else was there is not known.

  • Present (sibling):

  • 8 Apr 1827 (age 16)

  • Present at Baptism of her brother John

  • Mother:

  • 5 Sep 1834 (age 24)

  • Margaret was present at the Baptism of her child Mary

  • Occupation:

  • frm 1835 to 1876 (age 24-66)

  • dressmaker3 4 5

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  • Exactly when she started dressmaking is not known - probably around the time of the birth of her daughter Mary in 1834. She continued dressmaking whilst living were parents and is recorded as such in the 1851 and 1861 Censuses. After the death of her parents she obtained a job as a dressmaker in the household of John Dixon who was a wealthy landowner and farmer living at Walwick Grange in Warden where she probably made dresses and repaired garments for the female members of the household and servants. In the 1881 Census at the age of 70 she is recorded as being retired probably having to give up because of failing eyesight. However, she had saved enough to be able to rent a cottage for herself.

  • Census (living with parents):

  • 6 Jun 1841 (age 30)

  • 1841 Census - living with parents

  • Census (living with parents):

  • 30 Mar 1851 (age 40)

  • 1851 Census - living with parents6

  • Census (living with parents):

  • 7 Apr 1861 (age 50)

  • 1861 Census - living with parents

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1871 (age 60)

  • Warden, Northumberland5

  •  

  • Address: Walwick Grange

    Margaret was working as a dressmaker in the household of John Dixon who was a landowner farming 30,000 acres. She probably made and mended dresses and other garments for the female members of the household and the staff.

  • Census:

  • 3 Apr 1881 (age 70)

  • Wark, Northumberland7

  •  

  • Address: Wark Village

    She has a house to herself. The size is unknown but it was probably small. She is described as 'Formerly Dressmaker' which probably means that she was living on her savings having worked as a dressmaker all her life. Her brother John and his family is living next door.

  • Death:

  • 11 Jun 1885 (age 76)

  • Wark, Northumberland8 9

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  • Cause: breast cancer and exhaustion

    Address: Wark Village

    Her death register entry said that her nephew John Thomson who lived next door was in attendance.

  • Death Registration:

  • 12 Jun 1885

  • Register Office

  •  

  • Address: Kirkwhelpington

Marriage

Sources

1.

1851 England Census for Household of William Lauderdale in Wark, Northumberland, (FMP website). Custom Id: HO107/2417, Folio 214, Page 9, Schedule 42; Margaret Lauderdale age 40 born in Simonburn, Northumberland daughter of William and Mary Lauderdale. National Archives. Call Number: HO107/2417.

2.

Parish Register for Baptism of Margaret Lauderdale, St Mungo, Simonburn, Northumberland, 6 January 1811, Northumberland Archives.

3.

1851 England Census for Household of William Lauderdale in Wark, Northumberland, (FMP website). Custom Id: HO107/2417, Folio 214, Page 9, Schedule 42; Occupation. Cit. Date: 30 March 1851. National Archives. Call Number: HO107/2417.

4.

1861 England, Wales & Scotland census, Wark, Northumberland, RG9/3869, Folio 79B, Page 9, Schedule 50, head of household: William Lauderdale, National Archives.

5.

1871 United Kingdom census, Walwick Grange, Warden, Northumberland, RG10/5153, Folio 22, Page 6, Schedule 25, head of household: Margaret Lauderdale, National Archives.

6.

Parish Register for Baptism of William Lidderdale, St Cuthbert, Bellingham, Northumberland, 14 December 1783, Northumberland Archives.

7.

1881 United Kingdom census, Wark Village, Wark, Northumberland, RG11/5112, Folio 86, Page 1, Schedule 4, head of household: Margarel Lauderdale, National Archives.

8.

Death register entry of Margaret Lauderdale, 11 June 1885, Jack Ward.

9.

England and Wales Death Registration Index, Margaret Lauderdale, Q2 1885, Bellingham, Vol. 10b, Page 241, General Register Office.