Rosabelle Mitchell

Female 1813 - 1893  (80 years)


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  • Name Rosabelle Mitchell 
    Birth 1813 
    Christening 27 Aug 1813  Hanover Square Chapel (Presbyterian) Newcastle-upon-Tyne Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Residence c. 1850  Lloyd Street, Greenheys, Manchester Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Living with her sister Janetta. Worked as a teacher and then as visiting governess to the Gaskell's daughters Flossy and Julia. 
    Occupation 1852  Governess to Elizabeth Gaskell's daughters Find all individuals with events at this location 
    .. Miss Rosa Mitchell who has taught the girls in the mornings has a better engagement offered to her...
    Elizabeth Gaskell, letter to Elizabeth Holland c 8 Dec 1852
    Letter of 9 March 1847 to Fanny Holland says Rosa Mitchell will give Meta two half-hour music lessons a week.
    In 1859 she ran a day-school which Julia went to.
    EG letter to Tottie Fox, March 1859.

    In 1861 she was living with her sister Jane and Emma in what looks like a small boarding school. Perhaps it had day pupils as well. 
    Census 1881  High Casterton near Kirby Lonsdale, Westmoreland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Norwood
    Emma Mitchell head, 72, income from annuities
    Rosa Mitchell, sister, 67, ditto

    In the 1871 census the two sisters are living with their okder sister Jane, but she had died by 1881. 
    Census 1891  High Casterton near Kirby Lonsdale, Westmoreland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Rosabelle Mitchell, 77, living at Norwood Cottage with one servant aged 17. 
    Death 2 Dec 1893  High Casterton near Kirby Lonsdale, Westmoreland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Effects £186. Admin was to Marian Mitchell, spinster. Possibly Marion Charlesworth Mitchell, her niece.
    Person ID I1145  Welbank1
    Last Modified 9 Feb 2023 

    Father Thomas Mitchell   d. 1859, Lloyd Street, Greenheys, Manchester Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Mary Welbank,   b. 14 Mar 1768, Saint Andrew, Holborn, London, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Aug 1837, Mount Pleasant, Northallerton Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Marriage 2 Mar 1789  Northallerton, Yorks Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F190  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S3] Bob Gamble, Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Gaskell ... and Miss Mitchell, (The Martineau Society, Newsletter no 44, Feb 2020, pp11-23).