Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QSR1838/1/5/5
  • Title
    Depositions of Mary Wilson, wife of John of Shillington. Sarah Simpkins, spinster of Shillington. Esther Jenkins of Shillington. In the case of William Jenkins accused of stealing a shawl.
  • Date free text
    2 November 1837
  • Production date
    From: 1837 To: 1838
  • Scope and Content
    Mary Wilson: she went into William Jenkins house on Thursday morning after Shillington Statute to fetch a pail of water and she saw a shawl hanging on a nail on the wall of the house. She did not say anything to her about the shawl nor did any conversation pass. She did not say to her that she had found the shawl the previous night. She did not say and she did not know whose it was nor take it down and show it to her. She went into Jenkins house that morning and his wife told her about it. Sarah Simpkins: on 20 September she was at her father’s house, the White Horse at Shillington, with some friends. In the evening she put on a shawl to step over the way. When she returned she took the shawl off and placed it on the table in the corner. There were several people in the room. William Jenkins and his wife were among them. About 11pm she went to the table and her shawl was not there. She asked several people if they had seen it but without success. From information she since received she heard that the wife of William Jenkins had on a shawl. The shawl produced by her brother was her shawl and she had not sold it or given it to any person. William Jenkins: he knew nothing of the shawl. He was going by Joe Brinklow’s house. He wife said something had drawn about he legs and she went back and picked it up. She took it home. Their little daughter was with them at the time. His wife brought the shawl or handkerchief to him and he did not know what it was. They took it home. Esther Jenkins: she picked up the shawl on the corner of Mr Simpkins door step which lead into the parlour. It caught her foot and when she picked it up she was it was a shawl. She mentioned it to her little girl and her husband. She did not go back to ask who had lost it but took it home. On Thursday morning she said to her neighbour, Mary Wilson, she had picked up a shawl and did not know whose it was and showed it to her. She did not go to Ms Simpkins house. She worn it once to church and had it on the cradle.
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