QSR1845/2/5/6

Depositions - Ann Deacon

28 March 1845

From: 1845 To: 1845

Mary Ann Brown, widow, of St Peter Bedford – she is the nurse at the Bedford Union Workhouse. Ann Deacon was an inmate on 17 March. She left the Workhouse on that day. She was ordered by the Master to search Deacon when she left and found in her stockings on her person 2 knives and 2 forks concealed in a bag. At that time Deacon was ready to leave the house. The Master told her in Deacon’s presence that Deacon was going for the day in the Workhouse clothes. William Martin on St Peter Bedford – he is Master of the Workhouse. On Saturday 15 March Ann Deacon applied to the Board of Guardians for one day’s leave of absence. Permission was granted but for no particular day. On the following Monday Deacon came and asked him for a paper to leave the house. He sent for the nurse and ordered her to search Deacon. When the nurse returned with Deacon she produced the knives and forks. They are the property of the Guardians of the Poor of the Bedford Union. He stopped Deacon’s holiday as he has the power to do. Deacon said the knives and forks were given to her and she hope he would forgive her.

item

Deacon, Ann,
Brown, Mary Ann

Bedford St.Peter, BEDFORD, Bedford Union Workhouse, Poor Law Union Workhouses, stealing, cutlery, nurse