a history
Visitors Lists: Miss Allsop’s Library: … (includes) … Mrs. Pincent …
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Marriages: … (list includes) … Pinsent – Ryland: At Walmley, R. A. Pinsent to Laura P. d of T. Ryland, Aug. 7.
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GRO0569 Devonport: Laura Proctor Ryland: 1855 – 1931
GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948
Ann Pinsent, a midwife, upon whose premises eleven skeletons of infants were discovered, had been brought before the Birmingham magistrates upon a charge of concealment of birth. The police stated that they had been unable to trace the body of the child in question, and that the other bodies were decomposed beyond identity. The prisoner was discharged, but fined 40s, and costs for not registering a birth at her house.
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Birmingham County Court: Yesterday: Bankruptcy: Before Mr. Motteram, Q.C., Judge: Geo. Ward, 54, Bromsgrove Street, baker: This was an adjourned motion by Mr. Nathan (instructed by Messrs. Barlow, Smith, and Pinsent) for an order on Henry Brown, to pay to the trustee the sum of £50 he had recovered from the debtor on the 21st January. His Honour ordered the payment of the money to the trustee, as intimated by him on Monday. Mr. Tanner intimated that should appeal.
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Miscellaneous: … … Ann Pinsent, the midwife upon whose premises 11 skeletons of infants were discovered, was brought before the Birmingham magistrates, upon a charge of concealment of birth. The police stated that they had not been able to trace the body of the child in question, and that other bodies were discomposed beyond identity. The prisoner was discharged but fined 40s and costs for not registering a birth at her house.
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Ann Pinsent, the midwife upon whose premises 11 skeletons of infants were discovered, was brought before the Birmingham magistrates upon a charge of concealment of births. The police stated that they had not been able to trace the body of the child in question, and that other bodies were discomposed beyond identity. The prisoner was discharged but fined 40s and costs for not registering a birth at her house.
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Accidents and offences: Discovery of Skeletons at Birmingham: Ann Pinsent, midwife, upon whose premises eleven skeletons were recently discovered, was brought before the Birmingham Magistrates on Friday on a charge of concealment of birth. The police stated that they had been able to trace the body of the child in question, but that the other bodies were decomposed beyond identity. The prisoner was discharged with respect to the more serious accusation, but fined 40s and costs for not registering a birth at her house.
[See also Liverpool Mercury, 9th August, Illustrated Police News, 10th August, and others]
[see also Cheltenham Examiner: Wednesday 14th August 1878]
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Re: George Ward, 54, Bromsgrove Street, Baker: In this matter Mr. Nathan (instructed by Messrs. Barlow, Smith and Pinsent) moved the Court for an order upon Henry Brown to pay to the trustee the sum of £50, the balance of a sum of £105 received from the debtor on the 21st January, 1878. …
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948
Suspected wholesale Murders: A case which promises some startling revelations was opened before the Birmingham Stipendiary on Thursday. Ann Pinsent, a midwife, was charged with concealing the birth of an illegitimate child. It had been known for some time past that Pinsent was in the habit of receiving into her house women whom she attended during confinement. The children so born mysteriously disappeared, being rarely seen by the neighbours beyond few hours after birth. A few days ago, a party of men excavating in the garden adjoining the prisoner’s house found a box containing the body of an infant. The discovery was duly reported to the authorities and became the subject of much comment among the neighbours. A further search of the garden was made by the police with the result that the bodies of eleven infants were found. The authorities were not prepared on Thursday to lay evidence before the Court and Pinsent was remanded for a week.
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Wholesale Baby Farming: Discovery of Eleven Skeletons: At the Birmingham Police Court yesterday, Ann Pinsent, a midwife, living at Nechells, was charged with concealing the birth of a child of an unmarried woman, who had been confined at her house. Mr. Jesse Herbert (instructed by the Town Clerk) prosecuted and explained that since the prisoner was first arrested some extraordinary revelations had been made, and skeletons of no fewer than eleven infants had already been found buried in a garden adjoining the prisoner’s house. (sensation). The learned counsel added that the body of the child in question had not yet been found, but it was known to have been born alive, and seen alive some hours afterwards. On the following day the child was alleged by the prisoner to have died from convulsions. Prisoner was remanded for a week.
[See also Leeds Mercury & Manchester Times, 3rd August]
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