Mary TINGLE 1785 ish Lydbrook (General)

by Carole Lewis , Monday, July 26, 2010, 18:04 (5239 days ago) @ donna howells

Hi there. I'm the one obsessed by my great grandmother x 4 Mary Tingle. I am confident that Slowhands has identified Mary Tingle/Cowmeadow. The records of the Gloucester Lent assizes 1829 state that she was 39. She was "brought in" on 21st March 1829 on suspicion, with her daughter Eliza, of stealing two geese from John Griffiths of Ruardean Woodside and acquitted.

The court report describes her thus: Light sandy hair, dark blue eyes, fresh complexion, long face, rather small nose, pit mark on the bridge of her nose, short arms and fingers, reads a little, Height 5 and a half inches (commas mine)

If it is the same woman she would have been born between 21st March and 7th June 1789. Her parents would have , therefore, been William Tingle and Mary Venn who married in Ross on Wye in 1777.

Her siblings would,therefore, be :
William 1778 Joseph 1780 William 1783 James 1787 Elizabeth 1791 Robard 1793

She would have been considerably younger than her husband. She would have been 17 when they married in 1807 whilst he was 42. She had previously given birth to his son who had died. James married Mary 2 months before his father's death. My theory is that she had been a servant in the Cowmeadow household before her marriage. When her husband died in 1821 he hardly mentioned his wife in his will. His wealth(?) was to go to his mother Ann and to his children. How they came to be on/off residents of the workhouse in the years following his death is a mystery.
I would love to be able to establsh when she died. She was still alive in 1842 when her son William was transported.