Little, Ellen

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Ellen Little nee Dodd was in the household of her sister, Margaret Dodd in 6 Cruddas Terrace, Bellingham in 1871. The record doesn’t say whether she was there as a visitor, lodger or permanent resident but gives her status as carpenter’s wife. She was the daughter of John Anderson and Isabella Anderson and was born in Scotland in 1831. In the 1841 Census she is not listed with her parents in Castleton, Roxburghshire, although there is a Helen of approximately the same age in the household. In 1851 there is an Ellen Dod (sic) in the household of John Jamson, a farmer in West Whelpington working as a house servant. She hasn’t been traced in the 1861 Census but in 1866 she married John Little in Bellingham. John was born in Scotland in 1838, probably in Dalton, Dumfriesshire. Whilst his wife, Ellen was in Cruddas Terrace in 1871, John, designated a house joiner was in lodgings in Bridge Street, Rothbury. In the 1881 Census John is declared to be a widower yet in 1891 he is still a widower but the father of two children – John Stewart Little (8) and Margaret Dodd Little (5). Margaret Dodd is shown in the same record to be John’s mother in law. There is no record of Ellen’s death but it must be assumed that John had re-married and his wife had been a previously unidentified daughter of the unmarried Margaret.