Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QSR1841/4/5/39/b
  • Title
    Depositions of Thomas Lovelidge, Barnard Dimmock Davis and John Paviour - Richard Kelley charged with bigamy
  • Date free text
    27 September 1841
  • Production date
    From: 1841 To: 1841
  • Scope and Content
    Thomas Lovelidge, parish clerk of St Paul Bedford - he produces an extract from the Register of Marriages for the parish of St Paul purporting to register the marriage of Richard Kelly and Mary Ann Crawley on 8 July 1841. The extract is a true copy of the entry in the original Register. He was present at the marriage and was one of the attesting witnesses. He believes the prisoner to be the man named as Richard Kelly in the Register but cannot swear to this. Barnard Dimmock Davis of St Paul Bedford, butcher - he was present at St Paul's Church Bedford on 8 July on the marriage of the prisoner with his sister-in-law Mary Ann Crawley. He was one of the attesting witnesses. John Paviour constable of the Borough of Bedford - he apprehended the prisoner on Thursday 22 September at Sleaford in Lincolnshire. He told Kelly the charge. Kelly said "I know your business but don't care a fig for it". On the road to Bedford Kelly said "I do not know where she was now - I heard she was with some horse dealer - but I have not seen her since May - the damn'd Bitch dare not come against me - if she does I shall want to know what is become of the child as she was in the family way when I left her and knock'd one over before". He understood Kelly to allude to the woman he was charged with having first married. On their arrival at Bedford he heard Mr Coombs the chief constable of Bedford tell Kelly that the magistrates had got the marriage lines for his marriage with his first wife. The prisoner answered he did not care for that as she had got 2 or 3 marriage lines and there were more people of the name of Kelly than one. He asked Kelly how he came to be ashamed of his name at Sleaford where he went by the name of Richard Richards - he said it was a by name. [Query by Kelly - did he not say "when she left him last March she was in a family way?" - Paviour not positive whether he said "she left me" or "I left her".]
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