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Source=h:/!Genuki/RecordTranscriptions/WRY/KarenTurnerSheffield.txt Servants at Wincobank Hall, Sheffield (1817 - c 1840 )
| Name | Start date | End date | Length of service | Job | Wages, per annum | Mrs Elizabeth Read's comments | |
Cook / Housekeepers | |||||||
| Leech | Ann | April 1817 | 18 Dec 1818 | 1 year 8 months | Cook and Housekeeper | 12 guineas | Left us after having served us (but especially herself) one year and upwards of 8 months. |
| Wilson | Sarah | 18 December 1818 | 6 July 1826 | 7 years 6 months | Cook and housekeeper | 12 guineas | Came in place of Ann Leech Interest was paid on her wages as follows: 1822 6 shillings interest on 6 guineas 1823 12 shillings interest on 12 guineas 1824 15 shillings interest on 15 guineas 1825 1 guinea interest on 20 guineas |
| Cornforth | Jane | 27 July 1826 | 8 July 1829 | Almost 3 years | Cook and Housekeeper | 12 guineas | Left to be married |
| Bower | Mary | 8 September 1829 | 20 May 1835 | Cook and Housekeeper | 12 guineas rising to 14 guineas | She left to our regret on account of keeping fewer servants. She came again to assist in September when we were at Derwent. | |
| May 1835 | Dec 1838 | No cook mentioned in records for this period | |||||
| Gillatt | Martha | 22 December 1838 | 27 October 1840 | 1 year 10 months | Cook | £10 | Left on account of change to work in the kitchen |
| Fayram | Lydia | 27 October 1840 | See next book | Cook | £9 | ||
House maids | |||||||
| Name | Start date | End date | Length of service | Job | Wages, per annum | Mrs Elizabeth Read's comments | |
| Barber | Ellen | 16 November 1819 | 29 July 1826 | 11 years and 8 months | House maid | 8 guineas (1819-1820) 9 guineas (1821-1826) | Married on Friday 14 July 1826. Left her place on 29th July after performing the duties of a faithfull and good servant for 11 years and 8 months. |
| Tyson | Mary | 1 Mar 1827 | 6 May 1828 | 1 year 2 months | House maid | 7 guineas | Left on account of poor health |
| Fullilove | Elizabeth | 7 July 1826 | 11 February 1828 | House maid | 8 guineas | Came in Ellen Barber's place. Left to go to live with my dear Mary Anne. Went to Nottingham on the 12th. | |
| Kesteven | Hannah | 13 February 1828 | 25 February 1830 | 2 years | House maid | 6 guineas | |
| Reynolds | Elizabeth (alias Ann) | 25 February 1830 | 12 February 1831 | Almost a year | House maid | Came in Hannah Kesteven's place. She left nearly a fortnight before the time having got another place | |
| Hancock | Elizabeth (renamed Hannah) | 11 February 1831 | 25 February 1833 | 2 years 2 weeks | House maid | 7 guineas | Came in Elizabeth's Reynold's place. She went home in poor health |
| Badger | Jane | 9 October 1833 | 2 June 1834 | 10 months | £8 | Left due to constant ill health | |
| Robinson | Eliza | 9 May 1831 | 1 June 1833 | 2 years 3 weeks | 8 guineas | Left on account of poor health. Barbara Dalton came in her place | |
| Dalton | Barbara | 30 May 1833 | July 1833 | 5 weeks | Given on leaving £1 3 shillings | She staid upwards of 5 weeks but did not suit. | |
| Turner | Elizabeth | 8 July 1833 | 28 November 1838 (became Mary Anne's servant) | 9 guineas (1833-1835) 10 guineas from January 1836 11 guineas from July 1836 | |||
| Marples | Ann | 2 March 1833 (previously kitchen maid) | 3 November 1834 | 2 years 5 months | Kitchen maid, promoted 2 March 1833 to House maid | Kitchen maid 6 guineas House maid 7 guineas | Left on account of fewer servants being kept |
| Rhodes | Hannah | 1837 promoted to house maid | See next book | Kictchen maid, promoted to House maid 1837 | £7 (Kitchen maid) £8 (House maid) | ||
| Bennett | Charlotte | 18 September 1840 | See next book | Came to wait at table etc | 1840-1841 £7 1842 £8 | ||
Kitchen maid (1) | |||||||
| Name | Start date | End date | Length of service | Job | Wages, per annum | Mrs Elizabeth Read's comments | |
| Marshall | Hannah | January 1816 | 16 September 1818 | 2 years 8 months | 6 guineas | ||
| Barber | Amelia | April 1817 | 13 Dec 1827 | Over 10 years | See comments | Had no wages for first three years and a half (clothes instead). August 1820 : Agreed to pay her 5 guineas the first year and increase it 7 shilling every year till it amounts to 10 guineas when it must remain stationary. I have provided her with clothes for 3 years and a half. She came in April 1817 and was not quite 13 years of age. She was turned away for immoral conduct | |
| Pearson | Hannah | 28 January 1828 | 1 October 1828 | 10 months | Kitchen maid | 5 guineas | Left to live with Mrs Bull |
| Haberson | Jane (alias Ann) | 6 October 1828 | 26 June 1829 | 9 months | Kitchen maid | 6 guineas | Left on account of mother's illness |
| Brammall | Elizabeth (alias Fanny) | 9 July 1829 | 9 July 1830 | One year | 6 guineas | Left on account of health | |
| Linaker | Jane | 12 July 1830 | 9 May 1831 | 10 months | Kitchen maid | 6 guineas | Left having been ill for 5 weeks. Replaced by Mary Naylor |
| Naylor | Mary | 22 April 1831 | 25 May 1831 | 5 weeks | Kitchen maid | Paid her 5 shillings per week | Came in Jane Linaker's place. "Of Attercliffe" |
Kitchen maid (2) | |||||||
| Name | Start date | End date | Length of service | Job | Wages, per annum | Mrs Elizabeth Read's comments | |
| Barber | Mary | c. April 1816 | 8 January 1819 | 2 years 8 months | Kitchen Maid | 6 guineas | |
| Shimeld | Elizabeth | 13 January 1819 | 11 April 1821 | 2 years 3 months | 6 guineas | Elizabeth Brownell came in her place at the same wages | |
| Brownell | Elizabeth | April 1821 | December 1821 | 8 months | 6 guineas | ||
| Moss | Elizabeth | 11 April 1822 | 15 April 1824 | 2 years | Kitchen maid | 5 guineas | |
| Fletcher | Hannah | 11 April 1824 | March 1827 | Nearly 3 years | Kitchen maid | 5 guineas | Left nearly one month before her year was expired |
| Wall | Harriet | March 1827 | 28 Jan 1828 | 10 months | Kitchen maid | Left because she was home sick. In lieu of wages clothes, shoes etc were puchased (£2 15 shillings), cash given in August and September (15 shillings), given on leaving (One guinea) | |
| Stancer | Sarah (alias Martha) | 1 July 1828 | 31 May 1831 | 2 years 11 months | 7 guineas, increased to 8 guineas in 1830 | She was turned away for immoral conduct. Eliza Robinson came in her place | |
| Marsden | Jane | 26 May 1831 | March 1832 | 10 months | Kitchen maid | £7 | |
| Wall | Ann | 1 May 1832 | 3 June 1832 | 1 month and 2 days | Kitchen maid | Paid her 9 shillings and 6 pence plus 2 shillings for her expenses in coming | Thought herself unequal to the work |
| Marples | Ann | 31 May 1832 | 3 November 1834 | 2 years 5 months | Kitchen maid, promoted 2 March 1833 to House maid | Kitchen maid 6 guineas House maid 7 guineas | Left on account of fewer servants being kept |
| Simpson | Ellen | 12 February 1833 | 27 May 1835 | 2 years 3 months | Kitchen maid | £6 | Left to go to live at Nottingham |
| Barber | Sarah | 27 May 1835 | 26 June 1835 | 4 weeks 3 days | Kitchen maid | ||
| Habershon | Jane | 26 June 1835 | 10 July 1835 | 2 weeks | Kitchen maid | ||
| Knowles | Bessy | 11 July 1835 | 7 September 1835 | 8 weeks | Kitchen maid | Paid her £1 and 6 shillings | |
| Rhodes | Hannah | 7 September 1835 | Promoted to house maid 1837 | Kictchen maid, promoted to House maid 1837 | £7 (Kitchen maid) £8 (House maid) | ||
| Fox | Ruth | 14 March 1836 | June 1837 | 1 year 3 months | Kitchen Maid | £4 (sleeping at home and her mother to wash for her) | Left on account of ill health. Harriet Fox came in her place |
| Fox | Harriet | 1 July 1837 | End April 1840 | 2 years 10 months | Kitchen Maid | Clothing provided partly in lieu of wages for first 2 years. See comments £5 From July 1839 | 17 Jul 1837 Gave her a new frock (3 shillings2 and a half pence) Money at the same time (4 shillings) Callico and holland for lining (one shilling and twopence) Callico and holland for lining (one shilling and twopence)
Jan 1838, Money (six shillings) Print and cotton for 2 frocks in April and May(eight shilling and eight and a half pence), July 1838, Money (one pound ten shillings) Jan 1839 Money (one pound) |
| Hirst | Rebecca | 21 May 1840 | 6 Nov 1840 | 22 weeks | To assist in the house | 19 week at 3 shillings and sixpence, and 13 weeks at 3 shillings | (finding her own washing) |
Nursery maids | |||||||
| Charlesworth | Mary Ann | End November 1818 | 26 February 1819 | 12 weeks | Upper Nursery Maid | 7 guineas | She came as an Upper Nursery Maid but was quite inadequate to fulfil her duties of that situation. |
| Taylor | Elizabeth | 26 February 1819 | 26 December 1820 | 1 year 10 months | 8 guineas | Left to be married to a widower with one child | |
Data researched and supplied by:
Karen Turner ©2000
Karen Turner ©2000