Sorry Gill, NOT the Times newspaper.......................................but it is the Liverpool Mercury. Have been browsing both newspapers today. Obviously need to have a break! Kathy -------------------------------------------------- From: "John Hardy" <jwhardy@blueyonder.co.uk> Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 12:05 PM To: <eng-liverpool@rootsweb.com>; <Lancsgen-L-request@rootsweb.co> Subject: Re: [ENG-LIV] REFORM SCHOOL > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <GILLIAN52@aol.com> > Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 8:39 PM > Subject: [ENG-LIV] REFORM SCHOOL > >>I would like to know if possible where my great grandmother would have >> been sent. She was 13 years old and convicted of Larceny and her >> sentence >> was 14 days in prison and 5 years in a reform school. She lived in >> Liverpool >> and it was the year 1865. I've tried googling reform schools in >> Liverpool >> but >> all it seems to come up with is for boys her name was Martha Breckell, >> would appreciate any advice. > > Gillian, > > Martha was sent to the Liverpool Reformatory School for Girls, Mount > Vernon > Green, Edge Hill, Liverpool. > > Following her trial, the newspaper 'The Daily Courier' Saturday, March > 11th > 1865, printed the following... > > "Martha Breckell, 35, Rose Breckell, 30, and Martha Breckell 14, and Mary > Carter 58, were charged, the three first prisoners with having stolen some > boots, handkerchiefs and other articles belonging to Messrs.J.R.Jeffery > and > Co., and Mary Carter with having received part of the property, knowing it > to have been stolen. The elder Breckell was sentenced to eight months, > Rose > Breckell to four months and Martha Breckell the younger to fourteen days > imprisonment, and to be sent to the Edge Hill Reformatory for five years, > and Mary Carter to eight months imprisonment". > > The Liverpool Quarter Sessions, Home Office Returns Register 9th March > 1865, > recorded young Martha's sentence as "Imprisonment 14 days and then to be > sent to Liverpool Reformatory for girls - Mount Vernon Green for 5 years". > > Regards, > John Hardy. > > > > > > > > > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > > Admin Message - List guidelines: > http://freespace.virgin.net/genealogical.collections/AdminMessage.htm > > The list admin can be contacted at > Eng-Liverpool-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-LIVERPOOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >