CAROLINE nee PRITCHARD HATCH (General)

by Mike Pinchin , Bedford, England, Tuesday, December 02, 2014, 20:01 (3644 days ago) @ patsy

This one too provides some background, although not good reading,

Gloucester Journal Saturday 22 March 1890

WESTBURY ON SEVERN BOARD OF GUARDIANS

A VIOLENT WOMAN

The clerk mentioned a case which presented some very peculiar features, and was exceedingly difficult to deal with. It appeared that a man named Frederick HATCH, a farm labourer of Hartpury, married a daughter of a woman living at Blakeney, named PRITCHARD, and they lived together for 14 weeks, but at the end of that time the wife went home to her mother and had not since lived with her husband. A child was born in due course, and ever since its birth it had lived with its grandmother, and in the meantime the mother had left home, and her present whereabouts were unknown.........

...........Mrs Pritchard had become chargeable to the Union, and also the child, and consequently the father had been requested by the Guardians to fetch the child away or maintain her. The man refused to maintain the child……….

There is a good deal more about violence from the grandmother when the child was removed to the Workhouse – hence the headline – and further threats if she herself were forced to go there.