Herodias Ruddy

c1774-1853

Herodias was baptised on the 8^th May 1774, at St Nicolas Church, Newbury, Berkshire, the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Paradise, who were married on the 28^th August 1770, at St Nicolas, Newbury. (both were widowed, Sarah recorded as Sarah Wallbridge)

Thomas and Sarah also had the following two children baptised at St Nicolas, Newbury:

Meriah, baptised 26^th July 1771

James, born 24^th April, baptised 25^th October 1777

Herodias married Richard Ruddy on the 2^nd September 1804, at St Martin-in-the Fields, Westminster, London.

(Richard was born c1765. He served in the Army. His discharge record on the 27^th June 1809, records him as a Sergeant, aged 43).

Workhouse admission records record Richard, a Chelsea Pensioner and Herodias Ruddy entering the Westminster Workhouse on the 15^th August 1835. They were discharged on the 18^th April 1836.

Herodias was widowed in 1839, Richard died aged 74 (death registered in St Pancras)

The 1841 census records Herodias (65), a Female Servant/Shoe Binder, as an inmate in the Newbury Workhouse.

In 1851 she was also recorded as an inmate in the Newbury Workhouse, working as a Shoe Binder. (Christian name recorded as Haradias on ancestry)

Herodias Ruddy died aged 73, in 1853, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 17^th February, as Herodias Radley

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