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Selina Cook
1851 –12/04/1922
Selina Cook
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SELINA ANN COOK; 1851-1922
Selina Ann Cook was born in Ivinghoe in February 1851 to William Charles Cook and Hannah Ginger. She had 7 siblings. Her father was a tailor and her mother a straw plaiter.
Selina remained a spinster all her life and lived with her parents working, like her mother, as a straw plaiter. At the time of the 1891 census, when she was 40 years old, she was employed at home as a domestic servant.
In 1901 her father has died, she remained living with her widowed mother. They were both then working as dressmakers.
She moved to the pensioner cottages in Little Gaddesden by 1911 but at the date of her death on 12th April 1922 her address was given as 241a High Street, the workhouse.
The fact that Selina died in the workhouse does not necessarily mean she was resident there as a pauper. She may have been admitted to the workhouse infirmary. Originally workhouse infirmaries were intended solely for the care of residents in the workhouse, but towards the latter part of the 19th century the standard of care provided improved and from the 1880’s admission to workhouse infirmaries was increasingly permitted to those who though poor, were not sufficiently destitute to require admission to the workhouse. Like all recipients of union relief, they first needed to have their means assessed and might be required to contribute towards their care. The workhouse medical service marked the beginning of a state funded medical service
It would however appear that she was given a pauper’s burial as she was buried in Rectory Lane Cemetery in a grave with one Jane Sturman who had herself died in the workhouse two days earlier than Selina.
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SELINA ANN COOK; 1851-1922
Selina Ann Cook was born in Ivinghoe in February 1851 to William Charles Cook and Hannah Ginger. She had 7 siblings. Her father was a tailor and her mother a straw plaiter.
Selina remained a spinster all her life and lived with her parents working, like her mother, as a straw plaiter. At the time of the 1891 census, when she was 40 years old, she was employed at home as a domestic servant.
In 1901 her father has died, she remained living with her widowed mother. They were both then working as dressmakers.
She moved to the pensioner cottages in Little Gaddesden by 1911 but at the date of her death on 12th April 1922 her address was given as 241a High Street, the workhouse.
The fact that Selina died in the workhouse does not necessarily mean she was resident there as a pauper. She may have been admitted to the workhouse infirmary. Originally workhouse infirmaries were intended solely for the care of residents in the workhouse, but towards the latter part of the 19th century the standard of care provided improved and from the 1880’s admission to workhouse infirmaries was increasingly permitted to those who though poor, were not sufficiently destitute to require admission to the workhouse. Like all recipients of union relief, they first needed to have their means assessed and might be required to contribute towards their care. The workhouse medical service marked the beginning of a state funded medical service
It would however appear that she was given a pauper’s burial as she was buried in Rectory Lane Cemetery in a grave with one Jane Sturman who had herself died in the workhouse two days earlier than Selina.
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