Hello guys
Ive come across a bit of a wall and was hoping someone could help. Ive also tried the Devon forum but no luck yet. My great Grandmother Jemima Lewis (Originally from Shropshire Cleobury Mortimer was found on the 1901 Census to be in the Devon and Exeter Reformatory for Girls. I was wondering if anyone has some good sources to old newspapers around 1897 - 1904 so that i could try figure out what exactly she had done. Unfortunately data from the Devon and Exeter Reformatory for Girls ends just prior to 1900 + and so I'm left with only newspapers as far as I'm aware?
She is quiet the character, had a child at 36 out of wedlock (which i fear marks the end of the male line to that tree) as well as being known as 'a girl you wouldn't mess with' but ends well assumably as we have a poem she wrote writing how she was a wayward child but grew to love her mother and her home.
If anyone can help that would be great.
Many many thanks in advance
- Ben
