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Ellen Morewood

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In 1792 George died and left Alfreton Hall and other his estates to Ellen. She owned a brickworks, a colliery, farms and ironstone sources. Over the next nine years she was engaged in a legal battle with her neighbours the Outrams. Land had been sold to them but Ellen believed that she had the rights
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Ellen later married Reverend Henry Case who took the name Morewood. They both lived at Alfreton Hall for the next 30 years. An interesting description is given of the house in 1812 at the time they were in residence:
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In 1841 a man presented himself as John William Morewood saying that he had been stolen from his mother (Ellen) when a child and had returned from sea to gain his inheritance. He was thrown out of the town.
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Ellen died in 1824 and Henry died a year later. As they had no heirs the property was left to Ellen's nephew William Palmer of Ladbroke Hall. He took the name Morewood and became William Palmer-Morewood.
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in Derbyshire on 27 February 1768. They had one child in 1769, Rowland, who died soon after birth. They were both painted by the artist
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in Derbyshire. She unsuccessfully defended her right to mine under land adjacent to hers and she carried forward the Morewood name.
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Ellen was baptised on New Years Day 1741. Her father, Richard Goodwin, was an attorney based at
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When she was 27 years old she married the 49 year old George Morewood who lived at
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Ellen Goodwin; Ellen Goodwyn; Mrs. George Morewood; Mrs. Henry Case-Morewood
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again 1769. These paintings hung in the dining room of Alfreton Hall.
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In 1782 she had another portrait painted, this time by
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George Romney
Great Britain
English
Alfreton Hall
Mapleton
Alfreton Hall
George Romney


Joseph Wright of Derby
Benjamin Outram
Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench
Lord Ellenborough



"Morewood [née Goodwin], Ellen (bap. 1741, d. 1824), colliery owner and ironstone extractor | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"
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"Ellen Goodwin, Mrs Henry Case-Morewood (1740/41-1823) 1440718"
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