Martha Ann THOMPSON

1814 - 1880  (65 years)

• Name	Martha Ann THOMPSON
  Birth	29 Jun 1814	London, Middlesex   [1, 2, 3]
  	aged 66 at death [FreeBMD]
  Christening	31 Jul 1814	St. Paul's, Shadwell
  	Daughter of William (shipwright) and Ann, of 76 Shakespear's Walk.
  Gender	Female
  Census	1841	East Holborn, South Shields, Co. Durham
  	Age: 25+
  Census	1851	Johnson Street, Westoe, Co. Durham
  	Age: 36
  Residence	24 May 1855	6 Johnson Street, Westoe, Co. Durham
  Census	1861	6 Johnson Street, Westoe, Co. Durham
  	Age: 46
  Census	1871	6 Johnson Street, Westoe, Co. Durham
  	Age: 55
  Death	Q3 1880	South Shields Reg'n District   [4]
  	Name: Martha Ann Scott Estimated Birth Year: abt 1814 Year of Registration: 1880 Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep Age at Death: 66 District: South Shields County: Durham, Tyne and Wear Volume: 10a Page: 471
  Notes	Companion to Mrs. Fairles, wife of the J.P. murdered at Jarrow in June 1832 - see notes attached to mother, Ann Harrison. Companions were paid, and compensation included room and board. Their employers were usually older and/or infirm ladies. Duties were varied. They accompanied the employer on outings and holidays, handled light secretarial and nursing tasks, read aloud, served tea, and generally kept the employer from feeling lonely or forgotten. It was a position of great trust, a respectable line of work for single women. Their position was comparable to that of governesses in that they were of the servant class, but they shared a very close relationship with their employers. Sometimes companions were related to those they served, such as a great-niece caring (in a paid capacity) for an older relative. Sometimes they were widows, or unmarried young women. Extract from the Shields Gazette, 22/4/1938: A Shieldsman's Diary: "...Her maternal grandfather was Parson Harrison, vicar of Old Hartlepool, while her mother was companion to Mrs. Fairles whose husband, Mr. Nicholas Fairles, J.P., was murdered at Jarrow Slake in 1832. Mrs. Rutter recalls that her mother noticed on the fateful morning that Mr. Fairles had left the house without his pistols. She ran after him with the weapons that would have saved his life but, mounted on horseback, the magistrate was quickly out of sight."
  Person ID	I600	Gadd
  Last Modified	11 Jan 2009

  
  

  Father	William THOMPSON
  Mother	Ann HARRISON,   b. 12 Apr 1783, Hartlepool, Co. Durham
  Notes	Possibly previously married, e.g.: Marriages, Hartlepool District - Record Number: 150148.1 Location: Hartlepool Church: St. Hilda's Denomination: Anglican 22 Dec 1800 Thomas Wilkinson married Ann Harrison Witnesses: Robert Shadforth, Jane Harrison [Note: In the Banns and Marr. entry DAVISON is crossed out and HARRISON put in place of.]
  Photos		Old St Paul Shadwell The north-east view of St Paul's Shadwell, built in 1656 and demolished in 1817-1818. The church served many seamen, and was sometimes known as the church of the Sea Captains. In the churchyard of this church was discovered a stream (when digging a well); thus the nearby Spring Street. This was possibly the stream or well after which the area was named – a religious foundation called Our Lady of St Chad's, or Shad's, Well. Its church stood on the site of this well. St Paul's had become very dilapidated by the start of the nineteenth century — a piece of the ceiling fell down just before the start of a Sunday service, causing much confusion and panic as the church was evacuated (the parishioners "crowded out of the building in confusion and consternation, and dispersed in every direction"). The church remained closed for 10 years, save for occasional use for baptisms and burials. Eventually an Act of Parliament was obtained for the rebuilding of the church, most of the interior of the old church was auctioned off in 1817, and by 1820 a new church had been erected on the spot (costing £14,000).
  Documents		Shadwell in 1811, showing Shakespear's Walk and Spring Street, close to St. Paul's Church.
  Family ID	F249	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Luke SCOTT,   b. 27 Apr 1814, Sunderland, Co. Durham d. Q2 1873, South Shields Reg'n District (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	31 Dec 1834	St. Paul's, Jarrow   [5]
  Children	+ 1. William Thompson SCOTT,   b. 1836, South Shields, Co. Durham d. Q3 1876, South Shields Reg'n District (Age 40 years) + 2. Luke SCOTT,   b. 1838, South Shields, Co. Durham d. Q3 1918, South Shields Reg'n District (Age 80 years) + 3. John SCOTT,   b. 1841, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland + 4. Robert SCOTT,   b. 29 Oct 1842, South Shields, Co. Durham + 5. Annie SCOTT,   b. 1845, South Shields, Co. Durham d. 1933 (Age 88 years)   6. Alexander Waters SCOTT,   b. Q3 1847, South Shields, Co. Durham d. Q1 1917, South Shields Reg'n District (Age 70 years)   7. Martha Ann SCOTT,   b. 16 Apr 1850, South Shields, Co. Durham   8. Elizabeth Rowntree SCOTT,   b. Q1 1853, South Shields Reg'n District d. Q1 1876, South Shields Reg'n District (Age 23 years) + 9. Isabella SCOTT,   b. 22 Apr 1855, 6 Johnson Street, Westoe, Co. Durham + 10. Frances Rowntree SCOTT,   b. Q4 1859, South Shields, Co. Durham
  Family ID	F207	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Jan 2009

  
  

• Sources

  [S78] Aged 36 in 1851, same as husband. [S361] 1861 Census, (7 April 1861). [S354] 1871 Census, (2 April 1871). [S357] FreeBMD, (FreeBMD.rootsweb.com). [S387] SCOTT, Isabella - Birth Certificate, (24 May 1855).