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Title
Cross-written letter and envelope from Prudence Nightingale (nee Hackworth), Albion House, Penrith to Jane Young (nee Hackworth), Vilvorde, Belgium
Reference
HACK/4/4/1/12
Production date
23-02-1852 - 23-02-1852

Creator

Young, Jane Biography Biography
Jane Young (nee Hackworth) was born at 4 pm on 19 June 1831 at Soho House, Shildon. She was the daughter of Timothy Hackworth and Jane Hackworth (nee Golightly). She went to school at her sister Prudence Nightingale (nee Hackworth)’s Seminary for Young Ladies in Penrith and then was sent to finish her education in Vilvorde, Brussels. She married George Edward Young, a Wesleyan Preacher on 28 December 1853. The couple moved around regularly due to George Edward’s job; correspondence shows that they lived in Leeds, London and that Jane lived in Hull. They had five sons and one daughter, sons including the following that feature in the archive: Timothy Hackworth Young, Robert Young, George Edward Young and Samuel Holmes Young. Both Jane and George Edward Young were active in campaigning for recognition of Timothy Hackworth. George Edward Young’s research papers and correspondence demonstrate his involvement and Jane Young (nee Hackworth) appears to have been involved in research about her father for most of her life. She died in 1914.

Scope and Content
Wrote to Mrs Boyle about how she was annoyed by ‘the stupid expression of the note’ sending money, ‘you will be glad to know that Mr Stobart has given an order for one of the little engines and we are in daily expectation of receiving an order for another from Mr Maur’. John Patterson has bought a piece of land near the beacon and will, Mr J Lowthian is to marry Miss Boxborough ‘an old maid aged 56’, various news about relatives and friends, should read Milton’s Paradise Lost.
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2 items
Level of description
ITEM
Repository name
National Railway Museum, York
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