Person:Agnes Selvage (1)

Agnes Margaret Selvage was born on 14th December 1869 at Peterborough in Northamptonshire, daughter of Susan Selvage, formerly Cater, and her husband Joseph Selvage, a cemetery curator. Agnes appears in the 1871 census living at Cemetery Lodge in Peterborough with her parents and siblings.

By 1881 Agnes was living with her sister Fanny at South Willingham in Lincolnshire, over sixty miles north of Peterborough. Fanny was working as a pupil teacher at the village school there.

Agnes also went into teaching, being described as an assistant school teacher by 1891. On census night that year she was visiting a couple in Worthing on the Sussex coast.

The 1901 and 1911 censuses both find Agnes living with her sister Anne Georgiana and their mother at Hainton in Lincolnshire, immediately north of South Willingham where Agnes had lived before. They lived in the school house, with Anne being the head teacher and Agnes an assistant teacher. A niece, Florence Rampton, was also living with them in 1911.

In 1918, aged 48, Agnes married a gardener called Thomas Cox. He was a widower, whose first wife had died in 1915. He had recently moved to Hainton to be head gardener for Lord Heneage at Hainton Hall. Thomas held that post for twenty years until retiring in the late 1930s, when he and Agnes moved to the nearby village of Sixhills, living at the Old Vicarage there. They appear there at the outbreak of the Second World War, both described as retired. Agnes's sister Fanny was also living with them.

Thomas died in 1949, aged 82.

Agnes later left the Old Vicarage at Sixhills. She survived Thomas by twelve years. She died on 27th December 1961, a few days after her 92nd birthday, at Tor-o-Moor, a nursing home in the town of Woodhall Spa. Her niece Florence Rampton was one of her executors.

1. ↑ Births index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   b. Agnes Margaret SELVAGE, March Quarter 1870, Peterborough Registration District, Volume 3b, page 236, mother's maiden name Cater

2. ↑ Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England. Parish Registers of St Mary, Peterborough (Northamptonshire Record Office, Northampton).

   BAPTISMS solemnized in the Parish of Peterborough St Mary in the County of Northampton in the Year 1870
   No.	When Baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents' Name		Abode	Quality, Trade, or Profession	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   			Christian	Surname
   767	1870 May 1st	Agnes Margaret	John & Susan	Selvage	Peterborough	Cemetery Curator	C.B. Winstanley

3. ↑ England. England and Wales. 1871 Census Schedules. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG10; Piece 1517; Folio 13; Page 18, 2 Apr 1871.

   Address: Cemetery Lodge, Peterborough, Northamptonshire
   John Selvage, head, married, male, 41 [1829/30], Cemetery Curator, b. Chippenham, Cambridgeshire
   Susan Selvage, wife, married, female, 41 [1829/30], b. Soham, Cambridgeshire
   Annie G. Selvage, daughter, unmarried, female, 16 [1854/5], Pupil teacher, b. Soham, Cambridgeshire
   Mary J. Selvage, daughter, female, 13 [1857/8], b. Soham, Cambridgeshire
   Fanny E. Selvage, daughter, female, 8 [1862/3], Scholar, b. Peterborough, Northamptonshire
   Augusta A.S. Selvage, daughter, female, 6 [1864/5], Scholar, b. Peterborough, Northamptonshire
   Arthur J. Selvage, son, male, 3 [1867/8], b. Peterborough, Northamptonshire
   Agnes M. Selvage, daughter, female, 1 [1869/70], b. Peterborough, Northamptonshire

4. ↑ England. 1881 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands: . (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG11; Piece 3264; Folio 88; Page 17, 3 Apr 1881.

   Address: The School, South Willingham, Lincolnshire
   Fanny E. Selvage, head, unmarried, female, 18 [1862/3], School Mistress, b. Peterborough, Northamptonshire
   Agnes M. Selvage, sister, female, 10 [1870/1], Scholar, b. Peterborough, Northamptonshire

5. ↑ England. 1891 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG12; Piece 835; Folio 55; Page 14, 5 Apr 1891.

   Address: Cranworth Road, Worthing, Sussex
   John Chillman, head, married, male, 28 [1862/3], Gardener (Domestic), employed, b. Roehampton, Surrey
   Louisa Chillman, wife, married, female, 30 [1860/1], b. Bottisham Lode, Cambridgeshire
   Agnes M. Selvage, visitor, single, female, 21 [1869/70], Assistant School Teacher, employed, b. Peterborough, Northamptonshire

6. ↑ England. England. 1901 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG13; Piece 3085; Folio 65; Page 2, 31 Mar 1901.

   Address: Heneage Church School, Hainton, Lincolnshire
   Georgiana Ann Selvage, head, single, female, 46 [1854/5], 1st Class Certificated Teacher, b. Soham, Cambridgeshire
   Susan Selvage, mother, widow, female, 71 [1829/30], Housekeeper, b. Soham, Cambridgeshire
   Margaret A. Selvage, sister, single, female, 31 [1869/70], Assistant Teacher, b. Peterborough, Northamptonshire

7. ↑ England. 1911 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom: The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.))
   Class RG14; Piece 19917; Schedule 53, 2 Apr 1911.

   Address: Hainton School, Hainton, Lincolnshire
   Seven rooms occupied
   Anne Georgiana Selvage, head, female, 56 [1854/5], single, Head Teacher - County Council, worker, at Home, b. Soham, Cambridgeshire
   Susan Selvage, mother, female, 81 [1829/30], widow, 9 children born alive, 6 children still living, Housekeeper to Head of the Family, b. Soham, Cambridgeshire
   Agnes Margaret Selvage, sister, female, 41 [1869/70], Assistant Teacher - County Council, worker, b. Peterborough, Northamptonshire
   Florence Mary Rampton, niece, female, 18 [1892/3], single, Pupil Teacher - County Council, worker, b. Hainton, Lincolnshire

8. ↑ ^8.0 8.1 General Register Office. 1939 Register
   Caistor Rural District, 29 Sep 1939.

   Address: The Old Vicarage, Sixhills, Lincolnshire
   Cox, Thomas / male / 3 Jan 1867 / married / Retired
   Cox, Agnes M. / female / 14 Dec 1869 / married / Retired
   Selvage, Fanny E. / female / 16 Oct 1862 / single / Retired

9. ↑ Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. Agnes M. COX, December Quarter 1961, Horncastle Registration District, Volume 3b, page 251, aged 92 [1868/9]

10. ↑ England. National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1858 onwards. (Ancestry.com).

    1962
    COX Agnes Margaret otherwise Agnes Mary of Tor-o-Moor Woodhall Spa Lincolnshire widow died 27 December 1961 Probate Lincoln 27 February to Horatio Vincent Beckett solicitor and Florence Mary Rampton spinster.
    Effects £932 7s. 9d.