Joseph Gill

Occupation: Lead Ore Miner

Joseph Gill
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Parents: Joseph Gill, Mary Gill (born Sparke)
Wife: Jane Gill (born Longstaff)
Children: Elizabeth Gill, Hannah Gill, Mary Gill, Joseph Gill, Robt. Gill
Siblings: Robert Gill, Jane Gill, Mary Gill, Matthew Gill, Spark Gill, Rebecca Varty (born Gill)

1851 UK Census: RESIDENCE: Byrehope
High Forest Grieveship Parish Of Allendale, Northumberland

HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS:
Joseph Gill (28, Male)
Jane Gill (29, Female)
Eliz Gill (6, Female)
Hannah Gill (5, Female)
Mary Gill (2, Female)
Joseph Gill (11m, Male)

https://journals.openedition.org/cve/10997

Quote:

When Joseph Gill, a miner aged 28 in the 1851 census, borrowed Cottage Cookery in 1851, Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World (1850) in 1853 and Grace Aguilar’s Woman’s Friendship (1850) in August of 1856, did he intend to read these himself, or was he borrowing them for his wife Jane, who briefly replaces him in the membership list in 1857–58, or for his oldest daughters, who would have been aged 11 and 9 in 1853 and 16 and 14 in 1857? As Sopwith’s accounts make clear, these libraries were not only intended for the male members’ own use, but for the wider community, including families and children.

.....Pearson is one of the second group of readers in my sample, who borrowed books more often and with more seeming enthusiasm, and who particularly tended to borrow relatively new (in terms of when the library purchased them, not necessarily when they were published) works of fiction. Joseph Gill, a miner born in 1823, is one of these borrowers. He actively borrowed at least one book, and usually more, every year until 1857–58, when Jane Gill’s name replaces his in the borrowers’ records. This was exceptional and due to his death: in the 1861 census, Jane Gill is a ‘lead ore miner’s widow’. (Only one other woman, Harrison, is on the members’ list, from 1859–67, and she was an active borrower for just two years, 1859–61). In 1859–60 Jane Gill’s name is removed. No subscription had been paid in 1858–59, and perhaps it was too expensive in her circumstances.