22 September 1674: A shotgun wedding ends in tragedy for young Mr Robinson of Sowerby
Heneage Dering. 1877. Autobiographical Memoranda. Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Ed. Charles Jackson. Durham: Surtees Society. Dean of Ripon etc., but focussed on London etc. – nothing of interest. Get it:
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One DJon [John?] Robinson, a young man of Sowerby, having got a young woman with child, her uncle took him with a warrant, threatened him, so as at last he consented to marry her. He did marry her, on Tuesday Sept 15 1674, that day sennight viz. September 22, he had hanged himself in a new rope in the barn belonging to her uncle, where he lived after marriage – a sad hand of god – he had been often saying to her, thou wilt be a fine widow when I am gone, yet they suspected him not.
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Abbreviations:
- ER: East Riding
- GM: Greater Manchester
- NR: North Riding
- NY: North Yorkshire
- SY: South Yorkshire
- WR: West Riding
- WY: West Yorkshire
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One DJon [John?] Robinson, a young man of Sowerby, having got a young woman with child, her uncle took him with a warrant, threatened him, so as at last he consented to marry her. He did marry her, on Tuesday Sept 15 1674, that day sennight viz. September 22, he had hanged himself in a new rope in the barn belonging to her uncle, where he lived after marriage – a sad hand of god – he had been often saying to her, thou wilt be a fine widow when I am gone, yet they suspected him not.
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