Dodd, Mary

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Mary Dodd lived in 6 Cruddas Terrace, Bellingham, in 1871, in a household headed by her unmarried sister Margaret. She was the daughter of John, a shepherd, who was a native of Bellingham and Isabella (nee Anderson). She was born in Scotland in 1823. In 1841 the family were in Castleton, Roxburghshire where her birthplace is given as Roxburghshire and her father’s occupation as agricultural labourer. The unmarried Mary was living with her parents and various other relatives at Hareshawhead in 1851 where she was a dressmaker. In 1861 she was part of a large household in Bellum Brae, headed by her widowed mother who is recorded as a grocer. Mary was an unmarried, dressmaker. A younger sister, Eleanor was an assistant grocer whilst Isabella’s granddaughters, Isabella (15, a housemaid born in Greystead) and Margaret (4, born in Bellingham) made up the family. There were four lodgers/boarders – Matthew Milburn, a married stationmaster, John Stubbs an unmarried engine fireman, George Rutherford, a carpenter’s labourer and William Smith, a joiner’s foreman. In 1871 she was still an unmarried dressmaker in Cruddas Terrace. It appears that Mary died in Bellingham in the first quarter of 1877.