1848 10 02 : Governess's salary receipt

Update on Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 7:51PM by Petra Mitchinson

02 Oct 1848. GOVERNESS’S SALARY RECEIPT. A fresh, very neat and clean receipt. 4” x 7”. Marianne BURKY was in the MUSGRAVE household at Edenhall in the 1851 census. She was then aged 47, unmarried, and born in Neûchatel en Suisse, Switzerland. Edenhall Octr. 2d. 1848 Received of Sir George MUSGRAVE Bart. by payment of Mr. DIXON Twenty Six Pounds 5s/- for the Quarter of a Year’s Salary due to me as Governess Oct. 1. 1848. ~~~~~~~~~~ £ 26 ~ 5 ~ 0 [signed] Marianne BURKY ~~~~~~~~~~