Ghastly Murder Fanny Morgan 1834 of Chepstow (Inquests)

by ChrisW @, Monday, October 06, 2008, 22:17 (5680 days ago) @ ChrisW

May 3. BARBAROUS MURDER. (From our Monmouth Correspondent.) A woman about 40 years of age, named BRIDGET JONES, (a native of the sister Isle,) the wife of a pensioner, living at Chepstow, was committed to the County Gaol, at Monmouth, on Monday last, by Benjamin Meredith Bradford, Esq. by virtue of his office, as Coroner of Chepstow, charged with the wilful murder of FANNY MORGAN, a neighbour's child, about eight years of age. The atrocious deed was of a fiendlike character, the child's head having been cut off and thrown into the street.

Record_ID: 125131
Entry Number: 400
Year: 1834
Month: Apr
Day: 29
Surname: MORGAN
Forenames: Fanny
Place of Residence: Back
Age at death: 8 y[ea]rs
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Event: Burial
Cause of death:
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Parish_Chapel: Chepstow Monmouth
Soundex: M625


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