Now! Then! 2025! - Yorkshire On This Day

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A poor man at a little house by Mark Whittaker’s near Ossett in Wakefield Road hanged his own child to death for taking a piece of bread to eat it. Another child said, “Father, you’ll not hang me, I took no bread.” The man is gone to the jail.

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A poor man at a little house by Mark Whittaker’s near Ossit in Wakefield road hanged his own child to death for taking a piece of bread to eat it. Another child said, “Father, you’ll not hang me, I took no bread.” The man is gone to the jail.

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• Filicide (3) ·
• Heywood, Oliver (1630-1702) (34), Bolton-born nonconformist minister and diarist, active in the West Riding, resident at Northowram, ejected for his beliefs ·
• Hunger (9) ·
• Murder (38) ·
• Ossett (1) ·
• Poverty (16) ·

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