Nurse
Ann Matthews

Subject Name :  Ann Matthews   (b 1840 – d 1911)       

Researcher :        Val Pink

GUILDFORD UNION WORKHOUSE NURSE
December 1880 to December 1887

The Census of 3rd April 1881 lists 40-year-old widow Elizabeth Mathews, born St Marylebone, Middlesex, at the Guildford Union Workhouse as Infirmary Nurse/Infirmary servant 1.  However, no other evidence has been found for an ‘Elizabeth Mathews’ working at Guildford Union, or being an inmate, and this is an enumerator error.  The Guildford Union Board of Guardians appointed a Mrs Ann Matthews in January 1881. This is Ann’s story.

Ann’s Early Years

Ann was born on 10th May 1838 at 7 Duke St, Marylebone, the fifth child of Silas Tripp, a tailor, and his wife Mary (née Capel) 2.  

Ann’s parents were from the West Country, marrying in Locking, near Weston super Mare, Somerset, in 1826 3.  Silas and Mary’s first two children were born in that area. Silas was recorded as a shopkeeper on his first child’s baptism in 1828, also named Ann, and as a pork butcher on his second child John’s in 1830 4, 5. 

In March 1830 Silas found himself in the Somerset Insolvent Debtors Court, unable to pay his debts 6. His first daughter, Ann, died in 1831 7. Soon afterwards, probably as a result of his money problems and seeking a fresh start, Silas and his family moved to Marylebone, in London (then Middlesex).  Silas changed jobs completely to become a tailor.  Five more children were born, including Ann 8.  

It’s not clear why Silas would change to such a different job.  The 1840 Robson London Directory listed a ‘Tripp S, Tailor & habit maker, 105 High St, Mrlbne’ 9. This was Samuel Somner Tripp, born in Wick St Lawrence near Weston-Super-Mare in about 1807, who in 1851 was a master tailor employing 4 men 10.  It is possible that Samuel was a relative of Silas, and gave him a job.

However, by 1841 Ann and her family had moved away from Marylebone to King’s Head Court, off Fleet Street, in the City of London parish of St Bride’s 11.  Ann’s older sister Sarah died there aged 7 in March 1842 12.

By 1851 the family were living a short distance away in Little New Street 13. Ann and her younger sisters Harriet and Mary were scholars at a time when schooling was not compulsory.  Ann’s older brother John had followed in his father’s footsteps as a tailor, and her older sister Temperance was a ‘bookfolder’, a skilled job folding printed sheets then putting into numerical order to produce books 14.

Having moved again, Ann’s father Silas died in 1856 aged 51 and was buried in St Marys Church, Haggerston, Hackney, leaving Mary a widow 15.

1861 found Ann with her sisters, Harriet and Mary all lodging at 42 Fetter Lane, Farringdon, close by in the East End 16. Ann and Mary were ‘feathermakers’, which involved cleaning, bleaching, dying, curling and the making up of ostrich and other plumes and feathers for hats mostly 17. The fashion for feathered hats and muffs was reaching its peak and many species of birds were threatened with extinction because of it. Harriet was an ‘artificial florist’, making decorative flowers for hats, another skilled job in the fashion industry of the time 18. 

At the time of this census, Ann’s mother Mary, aged 57, was visiting her aunt in Gloucestershire 19, 20. Mary’s occupation was given as ‘monthly nurse’. Her job would be to look after women, mostly the well off, post childbirth for a lying-in period ranging from a few days to several months. Although not midwives, and not expected to have any medical knowledge, they often had to carry out messy and sometimes unpleasant tasks not only in connection with childbirth but with death, as they were also paid to lay-out the dead. Sometimes the two tasks coincided due to the high level of infant mortality at the time 21.

Ann’s Marriage to Samuel Matthews

Just before her 24th birthday, Ann Tripp married Samuel Matthews, a printer from Clerkenwell, on 20th April 1862 at St Botolph’s Church, Aldersgate, Farringdon in the City of London 22.

Almost two years later, in January 1864, a ‘Samuel Matthews’ of the right age (28) was admitted with ‘illness/fever’ to the London Fever Hospital, one of the first fever hospitals in London 23. This may have been Ann’s husband, and the start of his later lung problems.

Samuel and Ann’s first child, Anne Josephine, was born in 1864 in Clerkenwell, followed by Samuel Edward, Arthur John, Frederick Charles in Camberwell, and Ada Mary in St Saviour’s Surrey 24. Frederick Charles had a brief life, passing away age one 25. 

Ann is widowed

Some time after the birth of Ann’s fifth child, Ada Mary, in 1872, the Matthews family moved from London to Surrey.

In February 1875 Ann’s husband Samuel died at Shalford Common, near Guildford, of phythisis (tuberculosis) aged 36 (actually 38), with his wife Ann by his side 26. When or why they moved to Shalford is not known. It could be that London was not the best place to live when you have lung problems, so they moved for fresher country air.

Following Samuel’s death, Ann would have needed to find a source of income. It’s not known what Ann and her four young children did immediately after Samuel’s death, but it does seem that they remained in Shalford Common. Ann may have had some help from her mother, Mary, before she died in in 1878 27.

Workhouse Nurse Wanted

In October 1880, the Guildford Board of Guardians advertised for a nurse for the Workhouse and Infirmary, following the resignation of the previous nurse on her marriage 28, 29.

Applicants had to be ‘unmarried or a widow without family, be able to read and write, be well acquainted with midwifery, and fully competent to take charge of the sick in the Infirmary’.

In addition to a salary of £25 per year and other benefits, furnished apartments in the Workhouse would be provided.

A month later, the Workhouse Visiting Committee reported to the Board of Guardians that they could not find a suitable replacement 30, 31.

It was resolved to advertise again, but in the meantime Dr Sells, the Workhouse Medical Officer, was asked to provide a temporary nurse.  This was Ann.

Ann’s position was made permanent in January 1881 on the recommendation of Dr Sells 32. Her salary was to be £25 per annum, with ‘usual rations’, and 3d a day in lieu of beer.  The other live in nursing staff at that time were the Matron Elizabeth Davis, wife of the Master of the Workhouse Richard Davis, and Assistant Matron Harriet Ann McCarter, niece of the Davises.

As well as the requirements in the advert, Ann’s duties had been set out by the Poor Law Commissioners to Workhouses in July 1847 in a ‘General Consolidated Order’ 33.  This was treated as the Poor Law and Workhouse ‘bible’, and was basically unchanged until a full overhaul in 1913.

Ann was literate, had experience of childbirth, and had probably learnt from her mother who had worked as a monthly nurse, thus fulfilling most of the requirements of the original advertisement.  Given the Board’s struggle to appoint a nurse, was it known and was it overlooked that she in fact had a family?

While on the night of the 1881 Census, Ann was listed as ‘Infirmary Nurse’ at the Guildford Union Workhouse, her children were recorded at Chapel House, Shalford Common Chapel, about 2.5 miles from the Workhouse 34.  Ann’s daughter ‘Annie’ (Ann Josephine), age 14, was ‘housekeeper’, looking after her siblings Samuel, 15, Arthur, 13, and Ada 9. Samuel was providing for the family by working as a machine printer, a job with long hours, mostly at night with poor ventilation 35. Arthur and Ada were both scholars.

Exactly how many hours per day and days per week Ann worked is not known, but they would have been long and arduous, and she would not have had much time much time to visit her children.  

Guildford Union Workhouse Infirmary

The Guildford Union workhouse was originally built in 1838.  

Prior to the 1867 Metropolitan Act most Workhouse Infirmaries were small and within the workhouse 36.

Guildford was ahead of the times as its Infirmary was built in 1838, with a new Hospital/Infirmary added in 1856, including an infectious block to the south east of the workhouse.

The hospital was enlarged in 1870, probably to 30 infirmary beds over two floors (Upper and Lower wards), plus a doctor’s office and operating theatre.

A large Florence Nightingale inspired pavilion-plan infirmary with large open-plan wards, and large windows for natural light and cross-ventilation, was added in 1893 37.

Training and the Workhouse Infirmary Nursing Association

It is not known if the retiring nurse or Ann had any formal nurse training.

In the mid-1800s, campaigners such as Florence Nightingale, Louisa Twining, London-based workhouse Medical Officer Joseph Rogers, the author Charles Dickens and the medical journal The Lancet, highlighted the appalling care given in workhouses, often by pauper inmates who were unable to read or write with no experience of caring for the sick 38.

The campaigning led to the Metropolitan Poor Act of 1867 39. This provided for the establishment of asylums for the sick and poor, initially in Metropolitan London, but its influence soon spread outside the capital. The Act eventually led to the splitting of the Poor Law’s medical functions from its Poor Relief, and the way medical care was funded.  It also allowed for the training of nurses for one year in sick asylums. These nurses gradually replaced untrained pauper inmates.

By the mid-1870s there were some 20 agencies in London supplying nurses 40.  Some supplied trained and efficient nurses, while others sent out partially trained or untrained but with personal experience combined with ‘earnest and unselfish devotion’.

In 1879 a Workhouse Infirmary Nursing Association was formed specifically to supply Poor Law Guardians with properly trained nurses 41. Young women of ‘thoroughly good character’ would be trained for 12 months at a suitable institution at the expense of the Association, and would be expected to remain with the Association for 3 years after their training.  The Association also took women who already held a nursing certificate. Expected salary was around £20-30 ‘all found and partial uniform’.

Ann Leaves

In June 1885, Ann asked the Board of Guardians for a loan of her testimonials because she had answered an advert for a situation in Croydon 42.  This was granted but she either did not like the position advertised, or her application was not successful, as in January 1886 she was asking the Board for extra nursing assistance 43.  Her request was passed on to the House Visiting Committee. By April that year Ann had got her wish, as a Mrs Sarah Edmunds was employed on a salary of 6 shillings with lodgings and washing, subject to notice of one month either side 44.

Mrs Edmunds resigned in November 1887, for unknown reasons 45. Following this, it appears that the House Visiting Committee wanted to transfer Ann from the Lower Male Ward to the Upper Ward with the Lying-in ward still under her charge, at the same salary of £25 plus rations, but without beer money 46. A new nurse to take on the Lower Ward would be found from the Workhouse Nursing Association.

Ann was clearly not happy and in December her letter of resignation was read out at the Board of Guardians meeting which indicated that the ‘proposed arrangements would not be satisfactory to her’. Her resignation was accepted and referred to the House Committee to arrange for two new nurses for the lower ward which they felt could be found from the Workhouse Nurses Association, although the posts were advertised 47.

A January 1888 Board of Guardians meeting authorised the Clerk to give Ann a testimonial, ‘having  satisfactorily discharged  her duties during the period she has held the appointment of  nurse’ 48.

Life After Guildford Union Workhouse

Ann did not leave the caring profession.  In 1891, age 50, ‘Annie’ Matthews was a visitor at

Wightman Rd, Hornsey, Middlesex, the home of medical student Fred Feilden, his young Guildford-born wife Augusta (19) and their 2-month-old son 49. Ann’s occupation was given as ‘Ladies Nurse’ so she was probably caring for Augusta and her son, putting the skills she had learnt in the workhouse to good use.  It is also possible that she knew Augusta from her time in Guildford.

Ten years on, ‘Annie’ is back in Guildford living with her daughter Annie (Ann Josephine), Annie’s husband carpenter Charles Batt, and their daughter Ada in Bleinheim Terrace, Sydenham Rd, a stone’s throw from the workhouse 50.  Ann was noted as a ‘monthly nurse’, living on ‘own means’ (self-employed/own income).

Ann’s sons Samuel and Arthur were both married with children, doing well, and working in the printing business.  Samuel was a ‘printer’s machine manager’ living in Kingston-upon Thames, and Arthur was a ‘printer’s machine minder’ living in Wimbledon 51, 52. Her youngest child, Ada Mary, married an insurance agent in December 1901, and also went on to have a family 53.

Ann died in March 1911 at her daughter’s house at 8 Blenheim Terrace,  Sydenham Rd, Guildford, and is buried in Holy Trinity churchyard 53.

October 2024

References

Note : the source is Ancestry.co.uk unless otherwise specified

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