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2 March 1797: Tombstone epitaph for George Wilkinson, village crier of Ecclesfield (Sheffield), who died today aged 94

F.S. Hague. N.d. Ecclesfield Churchyard Transcription. Online: St Mary’s Ecclesfield. See also Hague’s full survey and a lecture. . Reproduction by kind permission of St Mary’s Ecclesfield. Get it:

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Here lies George Wilkinson
Born and cri’d,
Liv’d ninety-four years,
And then he di’d.
2nd March 1797.

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Tip of the hat to David Scrimgeour (Scrimgeour 2015), who includes the detailed report from the Leeds Intelligencer and tells of the inquest prior to the hearing and of Dyson’s subsequent career in the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

What led Dyson to this terrible deed? Who was the father? Was she raped?

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