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Margaret Jollie (nee Routledge)
Margaret Jollie (nee Routledge)
- Born
- ????
- Parents
- John and ??? of Brampton
- Sisters
- ??
- Brothers
- ???
- Married
- 1813. Francis Jollie
- Children
- John, William, Francis, Edward and Elizabeth
Married by licence Francis Jollie in 1813. The register reads:
Francis Jollie junior of the parish of Penrith, bachelor, and
Margaret Routledge of this parish, spinster, a minor,
were married by Licence with Consent of Parents this
23 August 1813. (Both sign). In the presence of
John Jollie, John Routledge. (Both sign)
Marriages by licence required a bond to be sworn first, to observe the terms set forth in the licence. The bond for this one was sworn on 21 August 1813, and adds that Francis was a stationer in Penrith; Margaret was a minor in Brampton; and that the bond's witness was her father, John Routledge of Brampton, currier, who consents to the marriage.When her father-in-law Francis died her husband Francis carried on newspaper, they had started, The Carlisle Journal, until he died at the age of thirty-six, leaving Margaret a widow with a family of four boys and a girl. Margaret Jollie was of the Routledge family, the publishing firm; her mother was a Halliburton of Lord Halliburton of Pitcur's family. She was only seventeen when she married Francis and they had children:
So she must still have been young when her husband died and little Edward was about eighteen months old.
Margaret Jollie kept on the newspaper with a Mr Steel as manager. She brought up and educated her children on about £300 a year. They had a maid called Mary who was a splendid manager. Sometimes Mary took little Edward with her when she went marketing. Her friends would remark "That's a bonnie wee laddie ye have with ye Mary". "Aye and he's guid as he's bonnie", she would answer. When out of sight she would cuff him and say "Tak that ye wee rascal, see what lees I have to tell about ye!". In the summer they used to go to the Solway and have sea bathing, so he soon learned to swim.
Edward was about four years old when the Reform Bill agitation was going on. The Carlisle Journal published what was considered a libel on Lord Lonsdale, a great local magnate. So there was a prosecution and Mrs Jollie had to go to prison for a month. She chose that, rather than pay the fine which was the alternative. She took little Edward with her, and she had rather a good time; for all her friends came to sympathise with her, and they presented her with a silver tea service, which is now owned by her great great grandson Tim Jollie who lives in Pakuranga, Auckland. It is inscribed:
PRESENTED
BY THE REFORMERS OF EAST CUMBERLAND
TO
MARGARET JOLLIE
ONE OF THE PROPRIETORS OF THE CARLISLE JOURNAL
THE UNFLINCHING SUPPORTER OF
THE CAUSE OF THE PEOPLE
JUNE 7TH 1834.
In 1836 Margaret sold Mr Steel the sole interest in the newspaper and ended the Jollie's 40 year association with it.
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