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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]This death report gives a little insight into what Codnor was like in the 1800's R&H News Jan 10 1913 Lived during 6 reigns On Tuesday morning at 7-45 the death occurred at Chapel St Ripley of the town's oldest inhabitant, Mrs John Thorpe, aged 95 years, who for some years had resided with her daughter Mrs Curzon. This was after a week's confinement to her rooms but despite Dr Hall's valuable medical skill and every care from the family,the old lady succumbed after bronchitis to time's inexorable decree. Mrs Thorpe, whose maiden name was Susannah Cater,was the daughter of a stockinger and small-holder, who lived at the farmstead in the fields on the west side of Glasshouse Hill, Codnor.It was in 1817, the year of the Pentrich Revolution, that she came into being, and thus lived three years during the reign of GeorgeIII. Then came GeorgeIV, WilliamIV, Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V. Mrs Thorpe naturally remembered little of the Coronation of these monarchs, she recalled however,that on the night of the death of WilliamIV a terrific thunderstorm broke out over the neighbourhood. The heavy rainstorm burst the old culvert which ran near what is now the Midland Railway embankment outside Codnor Station, and the floods rose as high as "Pichem Lane" or what is now titled "Station Road". In Mrs Thorpe's early days there were neither Church, Chapel or School in Codnor. She acquired the rudiments of a scanty education from a Miss Peake, a lady of some accomplishments who resided in a cottage opposite Holly Well on the main road from Codnor to Crosshill. At fourteen she had to take to the stocking frame, and made black silk hose to be conveyed by old Tom Hogg of Loscoe to Nottingham, as was then the custom. There was no Church in Codnor during Mrs Thorpe's early days, and as a matter of fact, her husband, to whom she was married at Selston Church, was a stonemason employed in the erection of the sacred edifice which is the Church for the parish of Codnor-Cum-Loscoe. The stage coach and the pack horse were the only means of locomotion, and she well remembered walking to Ripley to await the coaches halt at the Red Lion Hotel in order to "post" a letter to her husband who was working in Leeds. Codnor was a sparsely inhabited Hamlet in Mrs Thorpe's maiden days, for there was then no Mill Lane, and Bullock Yard was the most thickly built part. It is 64 years since Mrs Thorpe came to reside at Hammersmith, and 34 years since she lost her first and only life partner, who was for many years employed dressing stone at Butterley Ironworks in connection with the furnaces. She had nine children-three sons and six daughters. The deceased lady was of most cheerful disposition, and retained a lively sense of humour until a few days prior to her death. The funeral takes place this afternoon (Friday). Just out of interest I have traced Susannah Thorpe (nee Cater) through the census 1851 living at hammersmith Ripley with husband John age 33 mason and children Joseph 11, Ruth 8, Sarah 6, Phoebe 4, Mary 6mth 1861 Lowes Hill Ripley with husband John and children Joseph 21, Ruth 19, Sarah 16, Phoebe 14, Joseph(who ws really John) 7, James 5, Emma 2 1871 Lowes Hill with husband and children Sarah 26, Phoebe 24, John 17, Thomas 15, Emma 12, Susan 7 1881 Lowes Hill Widowed with children Phoebe 34, Susan 17, son in law Alfred Curzon (who had married daughter Ruth and was now a widower and 3 Curzon grandchildren George 8, John 6 and Ruth 3 1891 Chapel St Ripley Susannah living with Head of house Alfred Curzon (who had by now married daughter Phoebe-sister of 1st wife)and 4 Curzon children 1901 Chapel Terrace Ripley Susannah living with widowed daughter Phoebe Curzon (Grocer) and 4 Curzon children So it would be daughter Phoebe who looked after Susannah to the end [/quote]
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This death report gives a little insight into what Codnor was like in the 1800's
R&H News Jan 10 1913
Lived during 6 reigns

On Tuesday morning at 7-45 the death occurred at Chapel St Ripley of the town's oldest inhabitant, Mrs John Thorpe, aged 95 years, who for some years had resided with her daughter Mrs Curzon. This was after a week's confinement to her rooms but despite Dr Hall's valuable medical skill and every care from the family,the old lady succumbed after bronchitis to time's inexorable decree. Mrs Thorpe, whose maiden name was Susannah Cater,was the daughter of a stockinger and small-holder, who lived at the farmstead in the fields on the west side of Glasshouse Hill, Codnor.It was in 1817, the year of the Pentrich Revolution, that she came into being, and thus lived three years during the reign of GeorgeIII. Then came GeorgeIV, WilliamIV, Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V.
Mrs Thorpe naturally remembered little of the Coronation of these monarchs, she recalled however,that on the night of the death of WilliamIV a terrific thunderstorm broke out over the neighbourhood. The heavy rainstorm burst the old culvert which ran near what is now the Midland Railway embankment outside Codnor Station, and the floods rose as high as "Pichem Lane" or what is now titled "Station Road".
In Mrs Thorpe's early days there were neither Church, Chapel or School in Codnor. She acquired the rudiments of a scanty education from a Miss Peake, a lady of some accomplishments who resided in a cottage opposite Holly Well on the main road from Codnor to Crosshill. At fourteen she had to take to the stocking frame, and made black silk hose to be conveyed by old Tom Hogg of Loscoe to Nottingham, as was then the custom.
There was no Church in Codnor during Mrs Thorpe's early days, and as a matter of fact, her husband, to whom she was married at Selston Church, was a stonemason employed in the erection of the sacred edifice which is the Church for the parish of Codnor-Cum-Loscoe. The stage coach and the pack horse were the only means of locomotion, and she well remembered walking to Ripley to await the coaches halt at the Red Lion Hotel in order to "post" a letter to her husband who was working in Leeds. Codnor was a sparsely inhabited Hamlet in Mrs Thorpe's maiden days, for there was then no Mill Lane, and Bullock Yard was the most thickly built part.
It is 64 years since Mrs Thorpe came to reside at Hammersmith, and 34 years since she lost her first and only life partner, who was for many years employed dressing stone at Butterley Ironworks in connection with the furnaces. She had nine children-three sons and six daughters.
The deceased lady was of most cheerful disposition, and retained a lively sense of humour until a few days prior to her death.
The funeral takes place this afternoon (Friday).

Just out of interest I have traced Susannah Thorpe (nee Cater) through the census
1851 living at hammersmith Ripley with husband John age 33 mason and children Joseph 11, Ruth 8, Sarah 6, Phoebe 4, Mary 6mth
1861 Lowes Hill Ripley with husband John and children Joseph 21, Ruth 19, Sarah 16, Phoebe 14, Joseph(who ws really John) 7, James 5, Emma 2
1871 Lowes Hill with husband and children Sarah 26, Phoebe 24, John 17, Thomas 15, Emma 12, Susan 7
1881 Lowes Hill Widowed with children Phoebe 34, Susan 17, son in law Alfred Curzon (who had married daughter Ruth and was now a widower and 3 Curzon grandchildren George 8, John 6 and Ruth 3
1891 Chapel St Ripley Susannah living with Head of house Alfred Curzon (who had by now married daughter Phoebe-sister of 1st wife)and 4 Curzon children
1901 Chapel Terrace Ripley Susannah living with widowed daughter Phoebe Curzon (Grocer) and 4 Curzon children

So it would be daughter Phoebe who looked after Susannah to the end

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