Thomas Gosselin's servants
31st October 2016From Thomas Gosselin's Livre des domestiques depuis 1811, in the Library collection.
Came | Name | Discharged |
1811 January 24 | Grace | 1811 3 August |
| 1811 July 8 | Betsey from Mrs Brabazon | 1811 10 November |
| 1811 November 11 | Betsey Batiste¹ | 1812 8 February |
| 1812 March 2 | Marie Guilbert² | 1814 2 June |
| 1812 February 10 | Betsey Catts | 1821 26 March: 'she left us to live with her Father & Mother.' |
| 1815 September 11 | Marie Marquand | 11 September 1820: 'she left us to be married.' |
| 1820 September 4 | Susan Martin | 15 April 1821: 'she left us on account of ill health.' |
| 1821 March 26 | Hannah Effort | 26 June 1821 |
| 1821 June 27 | Mary Mauger | 20 January 1823: 'she left us to be married.' |
| 1821 October 8 | Kitty Martel | 1 November 1823 |
| 1823 January 20 | Martha Guilbert | 13 June 1825: 'she left us to be married.' |
| 1823 November 1 | Betsey Catts | 5 August 1824: she left us to live with her Father & Mother.' |
| 1824 August 16 | Rachel Le Page | 21 May 1825: 'she left us to go and reside with her friends.' |
| 1825 April 1 | Betsey Batiste | 7 April 1827: 'discharged her on account of sickness.' |
| 1825 June 9 | Betsey Chidlay | 6 April 1826 |
| 1826 August 28 | Susan Batiste | 28 April 1828 |
| 1827 November2 | Mary Le Page | 28 April 1828 |
| 1828 March 1 | Mary Goslin | 20 October 1828: 'left us.' |
| 1828 April 1828 | Mary Huray | 28 November 1828 |
| 1828 April 16 | Betsey Batiste | -- April 1829 |
| 1828 October 22 | Susan Lihou | 20 July 1835: 'she left us to be married.' 'To Susan's nephew, January 1 1835, £1 by gift.' |
| 1829 October 26 | Patty Robin | 26 March 1830 |
| 1829 March 2 | Martha Priaulx | 24 June 1830: 'she left us to be married.' |
| 1830 16 June | Anne Cornhill | 13 May 1835: 'she left us to live at Major Baynes'.' |
| 1830 June 28 | Anne Simmons | 30 October 1830 |
| 1830 October 24 | Marie Le Cheminant | 10 January 1831: 'discharged her on going to Holland.' |
| 1831 August 30 | Anne Cole³ | 31 March 1832 |
| 1832 June 9 | Maria Cornhill | 13 October 1832: 'she sailed for Brixham on Sunday 14 October 1832.' |
| 1832 October 20 | Marie Gallienne | -- January 1834: 'discharged by Joshua during our stay at Rotterdam about January 1834.' |
| 1834 June 2 | Sarah | 14 August 1834: 'she left us to return to the Misses Dobrée with whom she had resided on their return from Madeira.' |
| 1834 August 14 | Maria Cornhill | 25 May 1835: 'she left us to live at Mrs Phillips', an English lady residing in Ross Place.' |
| 1835 May 25 | Sophie Marquand | 27 August 1839: January 4 1836, she became cook at Ten pounds a year.' |
| 1835 June 22 | Rachel Guilbert | 22 December 1835: 'January 1 1836, £1 to cash paid her for New Years's gift, altho' she had left us being sick.' |
| 1836 January 4 | Mary Le Page | 3 March 1836 |
| 1836 March 3 | Sarah Wilman | 2 April 1844 |
| 1839 August 29 | Betsey Catts alias De Jersey | 29 May 1844: 'she came to live with us on 29th August 1839 for £12 a year, beside £1 a year for New Year's gift. I also agreed to give her £2 a year for her children whilst she lives with us and until they can maintain themselves.' 'Left on account of illness and not able to do the usual work of the house.' |
| 1843 September 21 | Judith David | She came to live with us as nursery maid for 13 guineas a year.'4 |
| 29 April 1844 | Martha Poidevin | 25 May 1844: 'she left on account of ill health.' |
| 1844 May 30 | Jane Rankler | Long-term servant, still working for the household in 1876, when the ledger ends. |
| 1844 June 26 | Mary Anne Williamson | 17 September 1844 |
| 1844 October 10 | Jane Smith | 1 December 1849: 'she came to live with us at £12 guineas a year as cook.' |
| 1844 November 26 | Mrs Jury (wet nurse) | 19 March 1845: 'she left us ... the boy being weaned at 4 months.' |
| 1845 March 19 | Nancy Rabey | 9 October 1850: 'she came to live with us as under nurse for £7 10/- a year: she left us to go home to resume her trade of needlework.' |
| 1849 December 1 | Charlotte Du Port | 3 March 1855: 'she left us on account of having a bad hand.' |
| 1850 October 9 | Sophia Martin | 20 May 1854: 'she came to live with us as under nurse and working servant: she left us to go home.' |
| 1855 March 19 | Anne Stockdale | 8 November 1858: 'she left us to be married: gave her a tea caddy worth 12/6.' |
| 1858 November 8 | Mary Galey | 22 January 1872: 'she came to live with us as cook: she left us to nurse a sick niece of hers.' |
| 1872 March 25 | Margaret Girard | Long-term servant, still working for the household in 1876, when the ledger ends. |
¹ 'She came to live with my Grandmother, & we had engaged a Judith on 11th November 1811 at seven guineas a year, but my Grandmother & us exchanged servants by agreement.'
² 'She came to live part of the time with my Grandmother & afterwards with us.'
³ 'April 2. Paid Mrs Mitchell for 3 nights and 2 days' board & lodging before embarking 3/9d.' Pasted-in note: 'Guernsey 31st March 1832. Received of Mr T Gosselin seven shillings for the passage of Anne Cole by the Unity to Brixham. [Signed] George Cornhill. In TG's Hand: 'The Unity sailed on Sunday 1st April at 8 o'clock in the morning, with Ann Cole on board.' Gosselin has also written in the account book: 'Sent her from whence she came by the Unity, Captain Cornhill, for Brixham, paying 7/- for passage.'
4 'April 9 1844: Harriet's first tooth. [Paid Judith David] 5s.' 'July 22 1845. Fred's first tooth. [Paid Judith David] 5s.' Loose note: '15 April 1846. Lent her for equipping her son going to sea, £5. 4th March 1847: on her offering me this day payment of the five pounds, I told her that she might keep them, and consider her quarter's wages of £3.13.6 due the 21st as paid to her. [She still owed the remainder.]'