Martha Cowell (1840 - 1856)

Born Mar 1840 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Died Sep 1856 at age 16 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England, United Kingdom

Biography

Martha Cowell was born in England.

Note

Note: #N1662

Notes

Note N1662Martha Cowell born 1821 Rickling Essex, Martha did not get married as far as I know but she lived with a James Lavender and had three children by him. They were Martha, born in 1840; Susan, born in 1842; and William born in 1845. Martha , the mother died in 1849 and is buried in Rickling Church. Unfortunately by 1851 the children were all found to be residing in the workhouse of Essex. James lavender was a witness at her brother James wedding.

Quendon and Arksden are villages very near to Rickling so it would appear that they only moved a short distance.

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Birth

Births Mar 1840

Cowell Martha Saffron Walden 12 237

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915

about Martha Cowell

Name: Martha Cowell

Year of Registration: 1840

Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar

District: Saffron Walden

County: Essex

Volume: 12

Page: 237

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Death

Deaths Sep 1856

COWELL Martha Saffron Walden 4a 123

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1841 England Census about Martha Cowel

Name: Martha Cowel

Age: 1

Estimated birth year: abt 1840

Gender: Female

Where born: Essex, England

Civil parish: Rickling

Hundred: Uttlesford

County/Island: Essex

Country: England

Registration district: Saffron Walden

Sub-registration district: Newport

Neighbors: View others on page

Household Members: Name Age

Thomas Law 50

Martha Cowel 20

Martha Cowel 1 ^[1]

1851 England Census about Wreatha Carvell (Martha Cowell)

Name: Wreatha Carvell

Age: 11

Estimated birth year: abt 1840

Relation: Inmate

Gender: Female

Where born: Rickling, Essex, England

Civil parish: Saffron Walden

Ecclesiastical parish: Rochester

County/Island: Essex

Country: England

Registration district: Saffron Walden

Sub-registration district: Newport

ED, institution, or vessel: Union Workhouse

Neighbors: View others on page

Household schedule number: 1

Household Members: Name Age

William Thompson 63

William Savill 67

Mary Ann Buck 23

James Bray 39

David Bryner 13

John Bryner 11

Rebecca Durnell 43

Abraham Hulls 71

Mary Hulls 17

Caroline Hulls 20

William Maccall 15

Mary Ann Sorrell 78

John Wright 7

Benjamin Woodley 17

Wreatha Carvell 11 (Martha Cowell)

Susan Carvell 9 (Susan Cowell)

William Carvell 6 (William Cowell)

James Law 58

Ann Law 52

Elizabeth Law 18

John Patmore 41

Henry Savill 39

Sture Negus 13

Thomas Som 20

Simeon Haring 42

Samuel Perring 23

Farmer Perring 37

Emma Perring 31

Tamer Perring 3

Thomas Perring 7

Alfred Perring 5

Fred Perring 4 MO

William Devery 47

Mary Bradford 19

William Penington 78

Sarah Coe 39

Thomas Cornell 57

John Church 64

Joseph Doughater 14

Martha Gatward 53

Mary Housden 64

Charles Stidd 66

Ann Stidd 27

George Lee 19

Joseph Mayhew 79

Thomas Miller 65

Charles Osborne 67

Lydia Purkis 13

Emma Purkis 9

Mary Saunders 54

Nehemiah Webb 60

George Wicken 11

Henry Wicken 7

Henry Ann Wicken

Elizabeth Porter 30

John Wright 64

Susan Warren 25

Diana Warren 4

Alice Warren 1

Olvin Wright 29

Susan Wright 5

Charles Wright 8

Butchiffe Wright 55

Henny Wright 17

Ann White 73

Bolden Hagger 23

Hurritt Taylor 22

Ellen Taylor 2

Elina Taylor 10

Richard Solomons 10

James Reynolds 15

Thomas Wilson 48

Richard Taylor 46

Thomas Cann 59

Diana Andrews 20

Susan Andrews 22

William Braner 17

John Gray 71

Joseph Drane 40

James Andrews Lens 52

James Andrews Lens 21

Charles Moore 34

Ferne Moore 33

Walter Moore 6

George Moore 6 MO

Charles Moore 3

William Waylett 61

Amelia Hawker 15

Louisa Choat 9

Susan Choat 6

Catherine Choat 4

John Barker 17

Charles Banker 14

Mary Ann Barker 14

Sarah Clarke 31

Louisa Clarke 10

Mary Ann Clarke 5

Edward Clarke 3

Mary Ann Webb 11

Amey Smith 77^[2]

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Saffron Walden Workhouse

Saffron Walden Poor Law Union was formed on 6th April 1835. Its operation was overseen by an elected Board of Guardians, 31 in number, representing its 24 constituent parishes as listed below (figures in brackets indicate numbers of Guardians if more than one): Essex: Arkesden, Ashdon, Chrishall, Clavering (2), Debden (2), Elmdon, Great Chesterford, Great Sampford, Hempstead, Langley, Little Chesterford, Little Sampford, Littlebury, Newport (2), Quendon, Radwinter, Rickling, Saffron Walden (4), Strethall, Wendon Ambo, Wendon Lofts, Wicken Bonhunt, Widdington, Wimbish (2).

The population falling within the union at the 1831 census had been 17,987 with parishes ranging in size from Strethall (population 41) to Saffron Walden itself (4,762). The average annual poor-rate expenditure for the period 1833-35 had been £16,373 or 18s.2d. per head of the population. The new Saffron Walden Board of Guardians met for the first time on the 13th April, 1835, at the Rose and Crown public house. They resolved that a new workhouse building was needed and set about finding a suitable location. They originally planned to buy a three-acre site in White Street Field. However, this proved to be unsuitable for the workhouse, and the Guardians' Chairman Lord Braybrooke purchased some land on the north side of Seward's End Road (later Radwinter Road) which he then leased to the Union. The new workhouse, to accommodate 340 inmates, was built in 1835-6 to a design by James Clephan of Silso who was also the architect of the workhouses at Ampthill and Wellingborough. The construction was carried out by Messrs Bennett and Barber of Cambridge. total cost of the land and building works was £7,333. A further £1200 was required in 1841-2 for additional expenses incurred in completing the building.

The workhouse layout was broadly based on the popular cruciform plan and constructed from white stock brick. The main ranges were of three storeys, with single-storey ranges enclosing the inmates' yards. Its location and layout can be seen on the 1919 map below. An entrance block faced the road to the south. Above the entrance was the workhouse clock whose original mechanism still survives. To the rear, the accommodation wings for the different classes of inmate radiated from the octagonal supervisory hub where the Master and Matron's quarters were located. Men were accommodated in the west wing, women in the east, boys in the north, and girls in the south. The boys' and girls' wings each included school rooms on the ground floor. The square end blocks of each wing included the board-room at the west, a bakery at the north, and a sick-rooms at the east. In 1846, the Guardians decided to build an infirmary, washhouse and laundry in the north-east yard. Four fever wards were erected in October 1848. By this time the workhouse could accommodate a total of 400. To the south-west of the workhouse was the casuals' block with a row of cells along each side, lit only by tiny round windows.

The workhouse later became St James' Hospital, and later Saffron Walden Community Hospital. A new hospital has now been built on an adjacent site and the workhouse converted to residential accommodation.

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Sources

1. ↑ Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece 340; Book: 16; Civil Parish: Rickling; County: Essex; Enumeration District: 5; Folio: 4; Page: 16; Line: 10; GSU roll: 241377.
2. ↑ : Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 1786; Folio: 504; Page: 12; GSU roll: 207435.

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