Rosabelle Mitchell

1813 - 1893  (80 years)

• Name	Rosabelle Mitchell
  Birth	1813
  Christening	27 Aug 1813	Hanover Square Chapel (Presbyterian) Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  Gender	Female
  Residence	c. 1850	Lloyd Street, Greenheys, Manchester   [1]
  	Living with her sister Janetta. Worked as a teacher and then as visiting governess to the Gaskell's daughters Flossy and Julia.
  Occupation	1852	Governess to Elizabeth Gaskell's daughters
  	.. Miss Rosa Mitchell who has taught the girls in the mornings has a better engagement offered to her... Elizabeth Gaskell, letter to Elizabeth Holland c 8 Dec 1852 Letter of 9 March 1847 to Fanny Holland says Rosa Mitchell will give Meta two half-hour music lessons a week. In 1859 she ran a day-school which Julia went to. EG letter to Tottie Fox, March 1859. In 1861 she was living with her sister Jane and Emma in what looks like a small boarding school. Perhaps it had day pupils as well.
  Census	1881	High Casterton near Kirby Lonsdale, Westmoreland
  	Norwood Emma Mitchell head, 72, income from annuities Rosa Mitchell, sister, 67, ditto In the 1871 census the two sisters are living with their okder sister Jane, but she had died by 1881.
  Census	1891	High Casterton near Kirby Lonsdale, Westmoreland
  	Rosabelle Mitchell, 77, living at Norwood Cottage with one servant aged 17.
  Death	2 Dec 1893	High Casterton near Kirby Lonsdale, Westmoreland
  	Effects £186. Admin was to Marian Mitchell, spinster. Possibly Marion Charlesworth Mitchell, her niece.
  Person ID	I1145	Welbank1
  Last Modified	9 Feb 2023

  
  

  Father	Thomas Mitchell   d. 1859, Lloyd Street, Greenheys, Manchester
  Mother	Mary Welbank,   b. 14 Mar 1768, Saint Andrew, Holborn, London, England d. 8 Aug 1837, Mount Pleasant, Northallerton (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	2 Mar 1789	Northallerton, Yorks
  Family ID	F190	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] Bob Gamble, Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Gaskell ... and Miss Mitchell, (The Martineau Society, Newsletter no 44, Feb 2020, pp11-23).