Maughan, Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Maughan was the wife of Michael Maughan and lived in Cruddas Terrace (5 Cruddas Terrace and 8 Cruddas Terrace) in 1871 and 1881. She was born Elizabeth Breckons and baptised in Wark on 4 December 1836. She was the daughter of Christopher and Elizabeth (nee Charlton). In the 1841 Census she, and her older sister, were recorded as being in the house of William Charlton, who was aged 20 working as a mason and Elizabeth Forster, a general domestic servant aged 20. Her parents cannot be traced in this census. In 1851 she was living with her father, by now a widower, her sister and brother in Main Street, Wark. Christopher Breckons was the innkeeper of the Black Horse and in the Poll Books and Electoral Register of 1852 shows him as a freeholder. (Pigot in 1822 has an interesting entry which states that Elizabeth Charlton was proprietrix of the Black and Grey Horse inns in Wark.) Elizabeth’s mother died on 10 March 1848 aged 37 and it may be significant that Elizabeth’s brother, Christopher was born at about this time. In 1856 when Elizabeth married Michael Maughan Christopher Breckons was still licensee of the Black Horse. The hostelry connection persisted for Elizabeth as her husband was innkeeper of the Bay Horse, Ridsdale in 1861 although her father was reduced to being an agricultural labourer at the same time. In 1871 the Maughans were living in Cruddas Terrace (6 Cruddas Terrace) with four of their children – Forest (14), Mary I (9), Christopher (7), Mable (5) and Margaret (2). Between the 1871 Census and Elizabeth’s death in the fourth quarter of 1879 other children followed – Isabella (c.1872), Jane Ann (1875) and Catherine (1879).