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Name - "official" name:
Mary Soul/Sole [maiden name unknown].
Date and place of birth:
1792 [from 1851 census] and 1798 [from age on death cert]
Names of parents:
Unknown
Date and place of baptism - if applicable:
Not Known [Contradicting information on census]
Details of each of his or her marriages:
Married John Soul, a Master Tailor and/or Clothes Dealer, date and place unknown
Occupation(s):
Servant
Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK):
1825 -1838 children born/baptised in Cheltenham, Glos
1841 Census: She is in Cheltenham workhouse, aged 44, and ‘NOT born Gloucestershire’. Four of her children aged 3 and a half, 7, 9 and 11 years old, were in Charlton Kings, Glos Workhouse. Husband can’t be found and I think he is dead by this date.
1851 Census: In workhouse again, with son Anthony, aged 16 and daughter Mary Ann, aged 19. She is aged 59, a servant and said to have been born in Charlton Kings, nr Cheltenham, Glos.
[Anthony and his sister Mary Ann, obviously had enough of being in the workhouse and emigrated to Quebec shortly after this census. Possibly following in the footsteps of their older brother Charles who has not been traced after the 1848 when he abscounded from the workhouse.]
1861: Cheltenham, Glos but died before the census.
Date, place and cause of death:
12 Jan 1861, 13 St Pauls Street South, Cheltenham, Glos. Chronic bronchitis 4 years. Aged 63, widow of John Soul, Master Tailor. Daughter Martha present at death.
14 St Pauls Street South [no longer standing]:
Date and place of burial: Unknown
Details of will / administration of their estate: Unlikely
Memorial inscription: Unlikely
Her youngest child Harriett was born c 1838 in Cheltenham, but her birth does not appear to have been registered.