See also

Mary Arabella Ransome (1869-1942)

Individual Events and Attributes

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • cook3 4 5

  • Birth:

  • 25 Mar 1869

  • Wood Dalling, Norfolk, England1 2 6 7 3 4 5 8

  •  

  • daughter of Sarah Ransome of Wood Dalling

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1871 (age 2)

  • Wood Dalling, Norfolk, England6

  •  

  • granddaughter as Arabella living with her widowed grandfather John Ransome, uncle George, her mother Sarah Ann, and brother Francis. Born in Wood Dalling Norfolk

  • Census:

  • 3 Apr 1881 (age 12)

  • Town Houses, Wood Dalling, Norfolk, England7

  •  

  • granddaughter as Arabella attending school and living with her widowed grandfather John Ransome, uncle John, her mother Sarah, brother Frank, and sister Mary Ann. Born in Wood Dalling Norfolk

  • Census:

  • 5 Apr 1891 (age 23)

  • Cathedral Close, Norwich, Norfolk, England3

  •  

  • an unmarried servant as Arabella M Lines working as a cook and living with widowed Rosetta Wallace and family, and two other servants. Born in Wood Dalling Norfolk

  • Census:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 32)

  • Moor Close, Binfield, Berkshire, England4

  •  

  • unmarried servant in charge as Arabella M Lines working as a cook and living with four other servants. Born in Wood Dalling Norfolk

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 41)

  • 79 Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, England5

  •  

  • an unmarried servant as Arabella M Lines working as a cook and living in seventeen rooms with five other servants. Born in Wood Dalling Norfolk

  • Census absence:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 52)

  •  

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 70)

  • The Lodge, Salisbury Road, Shipton Bellinger, Hampshire, England8

  •  

  • unmarried and retired as Arabella Lines living with her brother-in-law Austin A Field, and her sister Mary Field. Born on 25th March 1869

  • Death:

  • 3 Nov 1942 (age 73)

  • The General Hospital, Sanford Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England9 10

  • Probate:

  • 24 Nov 1942

  • Probate Registry, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England10

  •  

  • a spinster of 33 Hawling Gloucestershire died 3rd November 1942 in The General Hospital Cheltenham, administration of effects of £418 10s 5d (~£16,000 in 2017) to Mary Field (wife of Austin Field)

Individual Note

During the 1880s it appears that she changed her name to Arabella Mary Lines, we do not know why this was, she or her mother did not marry, could her father have been a Lines?

Sources

1.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Aylsham 1869 quarter:2 volume:4b page:66. Cit. Date: 14 February 2024.

2.

Birth Certificate. Digital image from GRO. Cit. Date: 14 February 2024. Family Archive, Held by David and Sue Wilkinson.

3.

England and Wales Census 1891, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG12 piece:1522 folio:93 page:3 schedule:9. Cit. Date: 15 February 2024.

4.

England and Wales Census 1901, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG13 piece:1162 folio:36 page:24 schedule:139. Cit. Date: 15 February 2024.

5.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG14 piece:116 class:RG78 piece:4 registration district:2 sub district:1 enumeration district:29 schedule:214. Cit. Date: 15 February 2024.

6.

England and Wales Census 1871, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG10 piece:1801 folio:8 page:10 schedule:46. Cit. Date: 14 February 2024.

7.

England and Wales Census 1881, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG11 piece:1928 folio:10 page:13 schedule:535. Cit. Date: 26 December 2022.

8.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG14 piece:2368A page:5 line:36 letter code:EECM. Cit. Date: 27 December 2022.

9.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Cheltenham 1942 q5 volume:6a page:498. Cit. Date: 15 February 2024.

10.

UK Government Probate Service, UK Government Find a Will, (on-line at www.probatesearch.service.gov.uk, www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Gloucester 1942 page:245. Cit. Date: 15 February 2024.