Ancestors in domsetic service.

[coombs]

Some young women did work locally, as well as others moving away totally. In 1871 my 19 year old ancestor living in Easton, Suffolk, was a servant out of place, so living at home but working somewhere locally. She married in 1880 aged 29 for the first time.

I think my 3xgreat gran who lived in a rural Sussex village worked in the manor house whose entrance gates was right near where her wheelwright father lived.

[andrewalston]

I have two direct ancestors who were in service some distance from home.

One great grandmother was born in the Liverpool slums, and the Industrial School obviously trained her for service. In 1891 she was a servant of a chemist - the shop is now a branch of Boot's! I assume that the Industrial Schools were the equivalent of an employment agency.

A great great grandmother came from a small village in rural Cheshire to Bolton. Her marriage certificate from 1867 has a witness who myself and my mum decided had been taught to write by the same person - that witness was also in service in the Bolton area, and came from that same rural village. Somebody must have been arranging things!

[youngtug]

I have two direct ancestors who were in service some distance from home.

One great grandmother was born in the Liverpool slums, and the Industrial School obviously trained her for service. In 1891 she was a servant of a chemist - the shop is now a branch of Boot's! I assume that the Industrial Schools were the equivalent of an employment agency.

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9213

[coombs]

My great gran was baptised for the 2nd time in Hackney in 1910 aged 14 and the address given on her baptism I soon found was a convent, 121 Stamford Hill, and the 1911 census had a number of teenage girls training for domestic service. So my great gran must have been sent there from her birth place, Oxford, to train for domestic service. She was then in Bexhill, Sussex, by the 1911 census.