Pls help me kill off Mary Clarke/Bailey from Hartismere Union Workhouse

[AndrewMartin]

I've been trying to kill off my Greatx4 Grandmother Mary Bailey (née Clarke) for ages. She was born about 1812 in Botesdale, Suffolk, and after bearing 2 illegitimate children in Wattisfield in 1835 and 1837, she then married widower William Bailey of Botesdale in 1838.

After a term in prison for abusing his children from his previous marriage in 1841, she and their new family ended up in and out of the Hartismere Union Workhouse/Ling House of Industry.

Having become a widow in 1869, by 1881 Mary Bailey is noted as back in the Hartismere Union Workhouse aged 68yrs. After this, i've lost her and have yet to take a gamble on a death certificate.

FreeBMD lists a few entries, but nothing that seems to jump out location-wise.

Here's where she's been:
1841: 29yrs, Ipswich County Gaol and House of Correction, Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
1851: 39yrs, Hartismere Union Workhouse, Eye, Suffolk, England.
1861: 46yrs, Botesdale Street, Botesdale, Suffolk, England.
1871: 60yrs, 20 Back Hills, Botesdale, Suffolk, England.
1881: 68yrs, Hartismere Union Workhouse, Eye, Suffolk, England.

Any advice/ideas would be great. 

thanks,
Andrew

[Keziah2]

Hello Andrew

This could be her
Mary Bailey (abode Rickinghall Superior) buried 25 Feb 1892 age 83.  Rickinghall Superior, St Mary.

Rickinghall is the neighbouring parish to Botesdale.

There is only the one Mary Bailey on the 1881CR - can this one be found in 1891 to confirm or eliminate?
Trouble is I cannot find a death on the FreeBMD Index to correspond with this burial.

K

ps.  FreeBMD does list an Emily BAILEY age 83 in the MarQ 1892 Hartismere Ref: 4a/683.  Right age/right district just wrong christian name - coincidence is she named a daughter Emily?

[AndrewMartin]

Hello Andrew

This could be her
Mary Bailey (abode Rickinghall Superior) buried 25 Feb 1892 age 83.  Rickinghall Superior, St Mary.

Rickinghall is the neighbouring parish to Botesdale.

There is only the one Mary Bailey on the 1881CR - can this one be found in 1891 to confirm or eliminate?
Trouble is I cannot find a death on the FreeBMD Index to correspond with this burial.

K

ps.  FreeBMD does list an Emily BAILEY age 83 in the MarQ 1892 Hartismere Ref: 4a/683.  Right age/right district just wrong christian name - coincidence is she named a daughter Emily?

Hi Keziah2,

Oh, the shame of only just spotting this reply! 

Thank you for this information. I'll check it out. I hope that you're right, as I'm quite keen to kill her off, after reading the reports of her court appearance, and the reason she went to prison. A bit of a nasty piece of work tbh.

Andrew