QSR1841/4/5/39/d

Examination of Richard Kelley, charged with bigamy

27 September 1841

From: 1841 To: 1841

He understands it is stated in the marriage lines sent from Suffolk that he was married on 22 April, which is false - no one ever knew his name there until the middle of July, he thinks about the ninth or tenth - that was the time he came down home to Spalding. He is confident he has no wife living. The marriage lines of the young woman who is going to appear against me is not all her name - she has another marriage lines with the names Amelia Lucy Austin, Fleet Street or Tottenham Court Road London.He forgets which. The name of the man in those lines is John or James Sadler, he forgets which. The first time she left him was after she showed him those lines, when he threw them at her and she struck at him with a poker. She went out and he did not see her for nearly three months. He saw her after this only one day at Saxmundham. She came and spoke to him and asked him if he would take her again. He told her he would never have any more connection with her. He supposed she was married and told her never to trouble him again. He can prove he had word brought to him at St Neots that she was dead and that she caused it to be rumoured that she was dead. He does not know that she is not dead. After he saw her at Saxmundham she wrote to him at Durham, before last 8 July. He sent her word that if she would behave herself he would try her again. She replied saying she did not care a damn about him and should not come. He never heard of her from that time until he heard at St Neots from two travellers he knew that she was dead.

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Kelley, Richard,
Kelly, Amelia,
Austin, Amelia

bigamy, Bedford St.Paul, Spalding, Saxmundham