Bridget Cosgrove

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Australia, Death Index, Name: Bridget Cosgrove Date: 1793 - Death Place: New South Wales Registration Year: 1793, Registration Place: Sydney, New South Wales Volume Number: V1793594 4

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1790 - Old Bailey Proceedings Online April 1790, trial of BRIDGET COSGROVE (t17900424-69). BRIDGET COSGROVE, Violent Theft > robbery, 24th April 1790. 398. BRIDGET COSGROVE was indicted for feloniously assaulting Elizabeth Bailey , a female infant child, under the age of three years , putting her in fear, and taking from her a child's frock, value 2 s. a pin cloth, value 6 d. a cap, trimmed with lace, value 6 d. the property of Thomas Bailey . THOMAS BAILEY sworn. I sell physical herbs and flowers in Covent-garden-market. I have a young child, about two years and a half old: her name is Elizabeth Bailey . On the 12th of April instant, as near as I can guess, about six in the afternoon, the child was playing about the Strand; it ran all about the market; it pays its visits all round; about half an hour after Mrs. Johnson and Mr. Ashmore brought the child, and asked me if it was mine; I had not missed it; I hadseen it three quarters of an hour before, at furthest; the child had its frock and pinafore on, without its cap; then I was desired to attend at Bow-street; Mr. Addington was there; the child said the woman put the cap into her bubbies; that was the prisoner; she was searched; Mrs. Johnson pulled out the cap before the justice and me, from the prisoner's bosom. Mrs. JOHNSON sworn. I am a taylor's wife. I was going through Russel-court , and Mr. Ashmore gave me the child, to put its clothes on; the child was with the prisoner, in Russel-court; the prisoner wanted her to suck, but the child would not; Mr. Ashmore took the child, and put the frock on backside foremost; there was a great confusion; the child was not dressed; the things were underneath the woman; they were a frock and a pin-cloth; she was forcing the child's shift off, which was off, only over its shoulders; it was at the milliner's private door, in Russel-court, by Mr. Pike's: I took the child to Bow-street; then the child cried for her cap, and told me where it was; the woman said she had not got it; I was ordered to search her, and from under her left arm I pulled out the cap; this is the cap: the father was at Bow-street: the child told me her mammy's name was mammy Bailey, and her name was Betsy Bailey . Prosecutor. I know this cap to be mine, by the lace, and joining at the corner Mr. Johnson and Mrs. Ashmore gave me information. Prisoner. I was in liquor. Court to Mrs. Johnson. Did she so appear? - She appeared to be disguised in liquor. Prosecutor. I did not take notice. - ASHMORE sworn. I was at the cutler's shop; and heard a child cry very much; I enquired the case; from the appearance of the child, being more decent and cleanly than those the prisoner had besides, (she had three more with her) and I began to suspect it was not her own; I charged her; she made no reply; but lifted her up; and from under her I took these things, which I took charge of, and secured her: the things were the frock and pin-a-fore. (Deposed to.) Prisoner. I was in liquor: I know nothing about it. Ashmore. She was in liquor; she appeared very stupid; Mr. Addington asked her where she came from; I think she said she lived in Wild-street; and had a husband, and that she came from Dublin ten years ago. GUILTY, not of the robbery . Transported for seven years . Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron HOTHAM. Mr. Justice Heath to Prisoner. What is become of the three children you had? - My husband took them to some workhouse near Covent-garden: I do not know whether my husband has got them or not.

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New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents. Mary Anne - 9 Jul 1791 Name; Bridget Cosgrove Trial where & Date; Old Bailey - 14 April 1790 Sentence; 7 years