Lamb, Mabel

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Mabel Lamb was the daughter of Cuthbert and Jane Lamb and was baptised in Bellingham on 29 November 1835. At that time her father was miller at Leehall Mill. At the age of fifteen she was already working as a servant in the household of George Scott, a farmer at Fell Head, Clarewood. She had moved to Redesdale in 1861 when she was a house servant to Forster Charters, a proprietor of some 266 acres and his wife, Elizabeth at Woodburn Mill. She continued to fill various house-servant jobs and in 1871 was in Swinburne Village where she was employed by widower, Joseph Fenwick who is described as an Under Land Agent. She came back to Bellingham to act as housekeeper to her widowed mother, Jane in Boggle Hole Cottage. Jane was eighty and described as a former cook. In 1891, looking after her ninety year old mother at Boggle Hole obviously wasn’t a full-time job or there was a pressing need for money because Mabel was also a charwoman. In 1901 Mabel was still a charwoman but living by herself in 4 Cruddas Terrace. She never married and her death in Bellingham at the age of seventy-five is recorded in the first quarter of 1911.