Ann Elizabeth REDMAN

• Ann Elizabeth Redman was born circa 1832.  She was the daughter of George and Mary Redman.

• Ann was baptised in Hook on 27th March 1832.  The family were living in Goole at the time and her father, George, was working as a Mariner.

• Sadly, Ann Eizabeth died in Goole in 1837, aged 5 years.  She was buried in the graveyard of St Mary’s Church, Hook on 8th March 1837.

Ancestry:

• Ann's father, George, was the third child of George Redman, Farmer of Little Smeaton, and his wife Mary, nee Wardle, daughter of John Wardle of ‘Elsicirk’.  

• George was born on 16th April 1803 and baptised at St Martin, Womersley on 7th May 1803.

• George married Mary Hawcroft at Selby Abbey on 24th January 1830.

• Following Ann's birth in 1832, George and Mary had a son, Thomas, who was born in 1834.

• A year after Ann's death, George and Mary's daughter, Mary Ann, was born in Goole in 1838.

• Their daughter, Jane Elizabeth, was born in Goole in 1841.

• At the time of the 1841 census, George’s 70 year old mother, Mary Redman, was living with her 7 year old grandson, Richard Redman and 3 year old granddaughter, Mary, in Cow Lane, Knottingley.

• Another daughter, Maria, was born to George and Mary in Goole in 1843.

An article which appeared in the Morning Post on Saturday, 17th June 1843, tells of a violent attack on Ann's father, George:

  "Yesterday Florence Donovan, an Irish labourer, was brought before Mr Cottenham, charged with committing a violent assault on George Redman, the master of the Hannah and Esther brig of Goole, in Yorkshire, by striking him on the head with a weapon, called a cart prop, and wounding him.  The complainant, who was very ill from the effects of the outrage, stated that he employed the prisoner to stow a barge with seventeen tons of castings, and he agreed to do the work for a shilling.  When he finished the job the complainant offered him the shilling; he said that won't pay me for the work I have done; surely you don't mean to give me that paltry sum for the labour I have had in stowing seventeen tons of castings.  Complainant expressed his determination not to give him any more; and finding the prisoner would not take the shilling, he returned it to his pocket.  The prisoner then walked away, and when he met complainant the same afternoon he asked him for the shilling; but it was refused on the ground of his having previously refused to take it.  The following morning, while the complainant was walking along Bankside, he was met by the prisoner, who had a cart prop in his hand, and he came up to complainant, and asked him if he intended to pay him.  Complainant again alluded to the refusal of the shilling in the first instance, upon which the prisoner, lifting up the cart prop, struck him a violent blow on the head exclaiming, at the same time, "By -, if you don't pay me, I'll pay you."  The force with which the blow was given knocked down the complainant, and inflicted a dangerous wound on his head.

Mr Cottingham said that the prisoner might have killed the complainant by striking him a blow with such a weapon as that produced, and if such had been the case, he (the prisoner) would unquestionably have been committed for murder.

... Mr Cottenham said that the offence was one of too serious a nature for him to deal summarily with, and he should therefore commit the prisoner for trial.  The prisoner was accordingly committed."

Could it be that this incident led to George's early demise?