Elizabeth Sunter, 1823–1902 (aged 79 years)
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- Elizabeth /Sunter/
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Death of a sister
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Death of a brother
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Census 1861
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Note: Living as a boarder at Talbot Street, Nottingham. School Mistress. |
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Death of a father
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Census 1871
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Note: Lodging with mother Margaret at Sherwood, Nottinghamshire. School Mistress. |
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Death of a brother
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Census 1881
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Note: Living as boarder at 74 Shakespeare Street, Nottingham. School Mistress at St. Mary, Nottingham. |
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Note
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Note: Was headmistress of GirlÆs Department of PeopleÆs College, Nottingham. She introduced natural science and physiology, which was criticised and considered as improper. Served on the committees for WomanÆs Suffrage Society, WomanÆs Total Abstinence Union, Ladies Sanitary Association; Liberal Association. & Nottingham Temperance Mission. |
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Death of a mother
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Death of a brother
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Census 1891
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Note: Shown as living with widowed sister Rebecca at 9 Northstead Road, Streatham, London. Retired Schoolmistress. Shown as living with widowed sister Rebecca at 9 Northstead Road, Streatham, London. Retired Schoolmistress. Also shown living with widowed sister Margaret at 111 Westgate, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Retired School Mistress. |
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Residence
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Note: Retired to London and spent the summer at Wakefield. |
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Census 1901
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Note: Living with sister Rebecca at 9 Northstead Road, Streatham. Retired Schoolmistress. |
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Death of a sister
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Note
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Note: Just before she died visited Westmorland & stayed with her grandmother Tamar Longstaff and aunt Edith at the Chestnuts, Appleby, and visited relations at Smardale Hall and Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland. Just before she died visited Westmorland & stayed with her grandmother Tamar Longstaff and aunt Edith at the Chestnuts, Appleby, and visited relations at Smardale Hall and Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland. One of these homes had a carved oak settee with the date 1633 carved on the front. |
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Note
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Note: Teacher in British School at Shildon, Durham. The family became Temperance workers & suffered much petty persecution. She has to leave her job ôas a result of the persecution of the Methodist priesthoodö. Teacher in British School at Shildon, Durham. The family became Temperance workers & suffered much petty persecution. She has to leave her job ôas a result of the persecution of the Methodist priesthoodö. Moved to London to teach at Home & Colonial Training College, then (1852?) at a teacher training college run on principal of Pestalozzi but lost her post as she would not declare herself Church of England û reinstated after a year. Next taught at Rev. James MartineauÆs School in Liverpool. She became a convert to Unitarianism. Had three offers of marriage û one when she was 50. One suitor was the engineer who constructed the Manchester Ship Canal & was subsequently knighted. She was too keen on her work to give it up. (Married woman were not allowed to teach) |
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Death
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| father |
1791–1862
Birth: about 1791 — Gunnerside, Richmond, Yorkshire, England Death: 1862 — Derby, Derbyshire, England |
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| mother |
1791–1881
Birth: 1791 — Dyke Heads, Gunnerside, Richmond, Yorkshire, England Death: 2 October 1881 — Wakefield, Yorkshire, England |
| Marriage | Marriage — 25 September 1809 — Grinton, Richmond, Yorkshire, England |
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2 years
elder brother |
1811–1888
Birth: 1811 — Gunnerside, Richmond, Yorkshire, England Death: 1888 — Canada |
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4 years
elder brother |
1814–1874
Birth: 1814 — Gunnerside, Richmond, Yorkshire, England Death: 1874 — Derby, Derbyshire, England |
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3 years
elder sister |
1816–1851
Birth: 1816 — Gunnerside, Richmond, Yorkshire, England Death: after 30 March 1851 — Derby, Derbyshire, England |
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3 years
elder sister |
1818–1851
Birth: 1818 — Richmond, Yorkshire, England Death: 20 July 1851 — Canada |
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3 years
elder sister |
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3 years
herself |
1823–1902
Birth: 1823 — Crosby Garrett, Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, England Death: 1902 — Wandsworth, London, Middlesex, England |
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3 years
younger brother |
1825–1851
Birth: 1825 — Crosby Garrett, Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, England Death: 15 September 1851 |
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3 years
younger sister |
1827–1901
Birth: 1827 — Crosby Garrett, Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, England Death: after 31 March 1901 — Christchurch, Hampshire, England |
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8 years
younger sister |
| Census 1861 |
Living as a boarder at Talbot Street, Nottingham. School Mistress. |
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| Census 1871 |
Lodging with mother Margaret at Sherwood, Nottinghamshire. School Mistress. |
| Census 1881 |
Living as boarder at 74 Shakespeare Street, Nottingham. School Mistress at St. Mary, Nottingham. |
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Was headmistress of GirlÆs Department of PeopleÆs College, Nottingham. She introduced natural science and physiology, which was criticised and considered as improper. Served on the committees for WomanÆs Suffrage Society, WomanÆs Total Abstinence Union, Ladies Sanitary Association; Liberal Association. & Nottingham Temperance Mission. |
| Census 1891 |
Shown as living with widowed sister Rebecca at 9 Northstead Road, Streatham, London. Retired Schoolmistress. Also shown living with widowed sister Margaret at 111 Westgate, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Retired School Mistress. |
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Retired to London and spent the summer at Wakefield. |
| Census 1901 |
Living with sister Rebecca at 9 Northstead Road, Streatham. Retired Schoolmistress. |
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Just before she died visited Westmorland & stayed with her grandmother Tamar Longstaff and aunt Edith at the Chestnuts, Appleby, and visited relations at Smardale Hall and Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland. One of these homes had a carved oak settee with the date 1633 carved on the front. |
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Teacher in British School at Shildon, Durham. The family became Temperance workers & suffered much petty persecution. She has to leave her job ôas a result of the persecution of the Methodist priesthoodö. Moved to London to teach at Home & Colonial Training College, then (1852?) at a teacher training college run on principal of Pestalozzi but lost her post as she would not declare herself Church of England û reinstated after a year. Next taught at Rev. James MartineauÆs School in Liverpool. She became a convert to Unitarianism. Had three offers of marriage û one when she was 50. One suitor was the engineer who constructed the Manchester Ship Canal & was subsequently knighted. She was too keen on her work to give it up. (Married woman were not allowed to teach) |
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