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Miss Ann TREDWELL (1788/9–1860)
Her sister Miss Mary Ann TREDWELL (c.1809–1875)
St Mary Magdalen section: Row 7, Grave D68

Ann Tredwell was born in Oxford in 1788/9 and baptised at St Giles' Church on 16 January 1789. She was the daughter of Elias Tredwell (born in Swalcliffe in 1769 and baptised there on 25 July) and Mary Boulton (probably the Mary Boulton, daughter of Thomas & Elizabeth Bolton, baptised at Chipping Norton on 7 May 1761). Her parents were married by special licence at Chipping Norton on 23 September 1786, with Elias was described as being of Sibford Ferris and Mary of Chipping Norton at the time of their marriage. They had the following children:

• Nanny Tredwell (born in Oxford and baptised at St Mary Magdalen Church in 1787);
  probably the Hannah Tredwell who died aged 15 and was buried there on 29 March 1801)
• Ann Tredwell (born in Oxford in 1788/9 and baptised at St Giles' Church on 16 January 1789)
• Elizabeth Tredwell (born in Oxford on 1 May 1792 and baptised at St Mary Magdalen Church on 5 May);
  died aged seven weeks and buried there on 23 June)
• Mary Tredwell (born in Oxford on 25 January 1794 and baptised at St Mary Magdalen Church on 31 January)
• Mary Ann Tredwell, who is described as Ann Tredwell’s sister in the 1851 census, was born in Oxford in c.1809, according to her age given at death, but no baptism has been found.

In the 1780s and 1790s the Tredwell family were evidently living in the parish of St Mary Magdalen and then St Giles in Oxford, but early in the nineteenth century their father Elias Tredwell started to run a waggon office at the north-west end of Cornmarket in St Michael’s parish, living in the house that used to stand at 31 Cornmarket Street, which was alongside what became as known as Tredwell’s Yard, where there were also five run-down cottages.

Elias Tredwell died at the age of 63 in 1822 and was buried in St Michael’s churchyard on 28 May, and his widow Mary Tredwell died at 31 Cornmarket Street at the age of 73 in 1833 and was buried with him on 14 March 1833.

Their eldest surviving daughter Ann Tredwell continued running the family business, and is listed in Robson’s Directory for 1839 as: “Tredwell Ann, 31 Corn mkt st, Waggon & Van Office”.

The 1841 census shows the Misses Ann and Mary Tredwell living at their office premises at 31 Cornmarket Street alongside the yard. Ann was described as an office keeper, and Mary as her servant.

Miss Ann Tredwell retired in 1843, when she was aged about 54, and inserted the following notice in Jackson’s Oxford Journal on 16 December that year:

I, ANN TREDWELL, having given up the Business of my WAGON OFFICE, situate in Corn Market-street, to Mr. Steane, whom I beg most respectfully to recommend as my successor, take this opportunity of apprising the public generally that I have no connection whatever with S. Cockbill, my late porter, and beg to caution the public not to entrust him, the said S. Cockbill, with any more money or Goods in my name; and that all goods sent to my late office, to the care of Mr. Steane, will be duly attended to, and forwarded with dispatch to any part of the kingdom.

Mr S. R. Cockbill retaliated the following week with an advertisement for his general van and wagon office at the Ship Inn in Ship Street, stating that he had had no connection with Miss Ann Tredwell’s wagon office for two years.

At the time of the 1851 census the Misses Ann and Mary Ann Tredwell were living at George Street in St Mary Magdalen parish. (The number is given as 70 in this census, as 50 in 1851, and as 68 in 1875, so its position is uncertain.) Ann was described as a house proprietor, and Mary Ann as an annuitant, but the ages recorded for them (57 and 33) are quite wrong. They had no servants.

Miss Ann Tredwell died in 1860:

† Miss Ann Tredwell died at George Street at the age of 71 on 31 December 1860 and was buried at St Sepulchre’s Cemetery on 5 January 1861 (burial recorded in the parish register of St Mary Magdalen Church).

Her death notice in Jackson’s Oxford Journal read simply: “Dec. 31, Miss Ann Tredwell, of George-street, in this city.” Her effects came to nearly £3,000, and her executor was Moses Holliday, Bailiff of Corpus Christi College, who lived nearby at Victoria Court in George Street.

In 1861 Mary Ann Tredwell was living alone at George Street. By the time of the 1871 census she had been admitted to the Warneford Asylum in Headington, where she is listed by her initials M.A.T. and described as a lunatic aged 62, the daughter of a carrier. She died there in 1875:

† Miss Mary Ann Tredwell died at the Warneford Asylum, with her age given as 66, on 26 October 1875 and was buried at St Sepulchre’s Cemetery on 29 October (burial recorded in the parish register of St Mary Magdalen Church).

Her death announcement in Jackson’s Oxford Journal read: “Oct. 26, at the Warneford Asylum, Mary Ann Tredwell, formerly of 68, George Street, aged 66.” She does not appear to have left a will.

The name Tredwell's Passage survived until 1911, when the building shown below replaced both that passage and 31 Cornmarket Street. It is now the restaurant of The Store Hotel which has been named Treadwell in memory of that passage.