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 1813 - 1893 (80 years)
Generation: 1
| 1. | Rosabelle Mitchell was born in 1813; was christened on 27 Aug 1813 in Hanover Square Chapel (Presbyterian) Newcastle-upon-Tyne; died on 2 Dec 1893 in High Casterton near Kirby Lonsdale, Westmoreland. Other Events and Attributes:
- Residence: c. 1850, Lloyd Street, Greenheys, Manchester; 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; .. 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; 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; Rosabelle Mitchell, 77, living at Norwood Cottage with one servant aged 17.
Notes:
Died:
Effects £186. Admin was to Marian Mitchell, spinster. Possibly Marion Charlesworth Mitchell, her niece.
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