Carlisle Patriot, 27 Sep 1823 - BMD (2)
Petra Mitchinson
Saturday 27 Sep 1823 (p. 3, col. 5)
DIED,
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On Sunday week, at the advanced age of 90, Christopher HOPPER, Esq. senior Alderman of the Corporation of Durham, and Collector of the Stamp duties for that City and part of the County.
Aged 67, Mrs. BLACKBURNE, of New Sidney-place, Bath, relict of the Rev. Dr. BLACKBURNE, late Warden of Manchester College.
At Kendal, at an advanced age, Mrs. P. HUBBERSTY.
On 13th inst. Mr. Wm. MIDDLETON, of Brackenbottom, in Tatham, Westmorland, at the age of 86.
At Ambleside, Mr. LANDSBOROUGH, aged 49.—At the same place, Isabella PARTRIDGE, aged 69.
At Bristol, in the 32nd year of his age, the Rev. Richard PORTER, Master of the College Grammar School in that city. The deceased was son of the late Mr. J. PORTER, of Low Holm, in Eskdale, near Whitehaven.
At Redcastle, Walter B. LAWRIE, Esq.
At Harrogate, on Saturday last, (whither he had gone for the benefit of his health) Sir Alan CHAMBRE, Knt., late one of his Majesty's judges of the Court of Common Pleas, aged 83. He had been expected in Cumberland, this week; but death suddenly put a stop to his further progress.
Of an apoplectic, at Nether Cassock, in the parish of Eskdalemuir, Mr. Thos. LAIDLAW, one of the most active and successful store-farmers in that part of Dumfries-shire.
Suddenly, at the Half-way-house, Kk. Santon, Isle of Man, Mr. P. BEEDEN, aged 48 years.—Same day, in Douglas, Mr. Phillip KEWLEY, cooper, aged 91 years.
Aged 20 years, Mr. Henry RAYNER, a pupil of the Bath City Infirmary and Dispensary; a young man of very promising abilities. His death was occasioned by the absorption of matter through a wound in his finger, when assisting in the dissection of a deceased body.
At Teddington, on the 10th inst., after a short illness, Mr. Justice MARSHALL, of the Chester Circuit. Mr. Serjeant CROSS is named as his probable successor.
A female, upon whose memory events were recorded which are only known to the present age through the history of the times in which they occurred, has just taken her departure from a world in which she had witnessed more extraordinary changes than it has often fallen to the lot of humanity to survive. This aged female, whose name was Eleanor JOB, died on Wednesday evening, in Church-court in the parish of St. Giles, London, at the advanced age of 105 years. In the first contest between this country and America, she accompanied her husband, who was a soldier of artillery, to the latter country, where she attended the army in every campaign that took place, as principal nurse in what was called at that time the flying hospital. Her intrepidity and humanity were equally proverbial with the army; for she had been often known to rush forward at the cannon's mouth, on the field of battle, to assist in the dressing of the wounded soldiers, with whom she was held in such an affectionate regard, that she was familiarly known among them by the name of "Good Mother JOB." At the battle of Quebec, she was particularly conspicuous in her heroic exertions to relieve the wounded, and was the person selected on that occasion to prepare for embalmment the remains of the brave, gallant, and lamented WOLFE. She it was that on that melancholy occasion performed the necessary ablutions of the internal parts of the body. Her husband having been killed in battle, she returned at the close of the war, to this, her native country, without any adequate provision for her support, and for the last 50 years she has been a pauper in the parish of St. Giles. Except during the last eight months, she was able to attend in person at the board-room to receive her weekly allowance, and since that time she has been regularly visited, and her wants attended to. She continued perfectly rational to the last moment.
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Wow, I wish Good Mother Job was connected to MY family somehow: do much information about her, a genealogist’s dream.
Dorothy NZ
Saturday 27 Sep 1823 (p. 3, col. 5)
A female, upon whose memory events were recorded which are only known to the present age through the history of the times in which they occurred, has just taken her departure from a world in which she had witnessed more extraordinary changes than it has often fallen to the lot of humanity to survive. This aged female, whose name was Eleanor JOB, died on Wednesday evening, in Church-court in the parish of St. Giles, London, at the advanced age of 105 years. In the first contest between this country and America, she accompanied her husband, who was a soldier of artillery, to the latter country, where she attended the army in every campaign that took place, as principal nurse in what was called at that time the flying hospital. Her intrepidity and humanity were equally proverbial with the army; for she had been often known to rush forward at the cannon's mouth, on the field of battle, to assist in the dressing of the wounded soldiers, with whom she was held in such an affectionate regard, that she was familiarly known among them by the name of "Good Mother JOB." At the battle of Quebec, she was particularly conspicuous in her heroic exertions to relieve the wounded, and was the person selected on that occasion to prepare for embalmment the remains of the brave, gallant, and lamented WOLFE. She it was that on that melancholy occasion performed the necessary ablutions of the internal parts of the body. Her husband having been killed in battle, she returned at the close of the war, to this, her native country, without any adequate provision for her support, and for the last 50 years she has been a pauper in the parish of St. Giles. Except during the last eight months, she was able to attend in person at the board-room to receive her weekly allowance, and since that time she has been regularly visited, and her wants attended to. She continued perfectly rational to the last moment.
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Thank GEU – always dependable to find out a bit more!
Hmm yes, I too wonder about the death mask. As she was so highly venerated, it probably didn’t go to her family, and is maybe sitting in some dark cupboard, long forgotten and unknown. IF I had the time, I’m tempted to look up her descendants…..
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GEU should have quit being so dependable!!!
The Battle of Quebec was in 1775. In 1773, an Eleanor Job was found guilty of stealing a garnet ring and punished by whipping.
Did our Eleanor choose to leave the country and reform in the process?
Trial account
Defendants ELEANOR JOB
Offences Theft > Grand larceny
Session Date 8th September 1773
Reference Number t17730908-63
Verdicts Guilty > Theft under 1s
Punishments Corporal > Whipping
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589. (2d M.) ELEANOR, the wife of John JOB , was indicted for stealing a garnet stone ring set in gold, value 8 s. the property of Patrick Ward , Aug. 22d . ++
Eleanor Ward . I am the wife of Patrick Ward : my husband keeps the Swan and Drum . On the 22d of last month I lost a garnet stone ring off the kitchen table; I left it on the table, and while I went to wash my hands, I was called away about a quarter of an hour and forgot it; Mrs Job was in the kitchen drinking a pint of beer; there was no other person in the room but the children; it was of a Sunday; the gentleman is here that bought the ring.
Francis Burroughs . I bought the ring the 23d of August of the prisoner; to the best of my knowledge I never saw her but that one time.
Q. Can you be certain to her person?
Burroughs. Yes, I believe I am; she resembles the person as nigh as I can guess. (Looks at the prisoner). That is the woman.
Q. to Mrs. Ward. Was she in the room when you came in again?
Ward. Yes. I bid my child give me the ring off the table and it was gone; the prisoner bid me, if I suspected her, search her; I did not suspect her then.
Prisoner's Defence.
Last Sunday morning I got up, and went out to buy a bit of bread for my five children, and I picked up this ring in the street; I shewed it to Mr. Pagget, and asked if it was gold; he said it was not. I kept it till Monday and then carried it to this man.
Guilty 10 d. W .
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Thank GEU – always dependable to find out a bit more!
Hmm yes, I too wonder about the death mask. As she was so highly venerated, it probably didn’t go to her family, and is maybe sitting in some dark cupboard, long forgotten and unknown. IF I had the time, I’m tempted to look up her descendants…..
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Dorothy, GEU found a few more details for you about Eleanor.
I wonder where her death mask is now?
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Wow, I wish Good Mother Job was connected to MY family somehow: do much information about her, a genealogist’s dream.
Dorothy NZ
Saturday 27 Sep 1823 (p. 3, col. 5)
A female, upon whose memory events were recorded which are only known to the present age through the history of the times in which they occurred, has just taken her departure from a world in which she had witnessed more extraordinary changes than it has often fallen to the lot of humanity to survive. This aged female, whose name was Eleanor JOB, died on Wednesday evening, in Church-court in the parish of St. Giles, London, at the advanced age of 105 years. In the first contest between this country and America, she accompanied her husband, who was a soldier of artillery, to the latter country, where she attended the army in every campaign that took place, as principal nurse in what was called at that time the flying hospital. Her intrepidity and humanity were equally proverbial with the army; for she had been often known to rush forward at the cannon's mouth, on the field of battle, to assist in the dressing of the wounded soldiers, with whom she was held in such an affectionate regard, that she was familiarly known among them by the name of "Good Mother JOB." At the battle of Quebec, she was particularly conspicuous in her heroic exertions to relieve the wounded, and was the person selected on that occasion to prepare for embalmment the remains of the brave, gallant, and lamented WOLFE. She it was that on that melancholy occasion performed the necessary ablutions of the internal parts of the body. Her husband having been killed in battle, she returned at the close of the war, to this, her native country, without any adequate provision for her support, and for the last 50 years she has been a pauper in the parish of St. Giles. Except during the last eight months, she was able to attend in person at the board-room to receive her weekly allowance, and since that time she has been regularly visited, and her wants attended to. She continued perfectly rational to the last moment.
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Petra Mitchinson
If this was the right Eleanor JOB (and if the age at death was correct), then she would have been aged about 55 in 1773. Not impossible, but would she have had five (presumably young) children at the age of 55 years?
It is all very odd – I can't find a marriage of a John JOB to an Eleanor, nor can I find the baptisms of any children of John and Eleanor JOB.
Petra
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