Great Great Aunt of W.P.
'Bill' Richardson
Jane was the second child of George Turnbull and his
wife Isabella, she was born around 1837 at Whittingham in
Northumberland. She was baptised at Whittingham Parish
Church on the 30th July 1837, her baptism record
says the family lived at West Glanton and her father
worked as a Hind (farm worker).
On the 1841 census the family were still in
Whittingham. Jane's father worked as a miller and she
had an older sister Eleanor and a younger brother Jacob.
Her Grandfather, also called Jacob, lived with them.
In 1851 the family were living at Waterside House,
Guyzance. Jane was 14 and working on the farm . Her
mother now had six children to look after as well as a
husband and father in law.
In the third quarter of 1858 when Jane was 21 she
married George Bolam, a 32 year old farmer who had the
farm at Shawdon Woodhouse.
The 1861 census recorded Jane and George at Shawdon
Woodhouse, they had a son, Robert, who was one year old.
Her mother and father lived in a cottage next to the
farm house and her father was the Farm Steward.
The 1871 census recorded Jane ( 33) and George (44)
still at Shawdon Woodhouse. George was described as a
Farmer of 630 acres, employing 8 men, 6 women and 6 boys.
Jane was listed as 'Farmer's Wife'.
She certainly must have been busy as they now had five
children, Robert (11), Mary (8), George (5),
Catherine (3) and William (1). There were also two
visitors at the time of the census, Catherine Middlemass
a 72 year old widow described as an 'Annuitant' and
Robert Gilhouse, aged 78 who was a Molecatcher. There
was some help for Jane though as there was a
general servant, Mary Ann Proudlock also listed .
Jane and George had another child, John Thomas in 1871
Sadness for the family in 1872, when their youngest
child, William died, aged two and then again in
1879 when Jane's mother Isabella and also Jane's
son Robert died.
The 1881 census recorded Jane aged 43 and George aged
54 still at Shawdon Woodhouse and the farm employed 13
labourers and 2 boys. Jane's four youngest children were
still at home and her father George, now a widower,
lived with them but at 71 he was no longer working.
Jane's husband George died in 1888 aged 62 and her
father died at the beginning of 1891.
On the 1891 census, Jane was listed as the Farmer at
Shawdon Woodhouse, she was 53, her son George was 25 and
listed as the Farm Steward.
Also living in the farm house were her son John Thomas (19) and
daughter Mary (29) with her husband Thomas Johnson and
their baby George Bolam Johnson.
Jane's nephew Thomas Turnbull (her brother Jacob's son)
also lived with them, he was listed as a 15 year old
agricultural labourer.
By the time of the 1901 census, Jane was 63. As was
the way of things, she had moved out of the farm house
into a cottage and her son George, who was now married
and had three children, lived in the farm house and was
recorded as the Farmer.
The census of 1911 recorded Jane at Plantation House,
Glanton, Northumberland. She was 73 years old and was
listed as a visitor in the home of her daughter
Catherine and son in law John Dickson.
Jane died in the first quarter of 1912, she was 74
years old, she died at her daughter's home, Plantation
Cottage, Glanton. Probate was granted to her sons,
George and John Thomas, on 29th April 1912. Her effects
totalled £585:10s. |
