In Prison for murder

[Gigi]

Hi All

Thanks very much for all your help.
I did not know that Bronzefield was a recent prison. I had found that info from the blackkalender website. I googled and that is where the Ashford info came from. I have never been able to find her dob. I have searched the 1939 register but to no avail. It truely is a very sad case and my father never knew anything about it despite his grandparents living in the area at the time where it all happened!

Thanks again,

Gigi

[Gallicrow]

I might be wrong but I think Dorothy and her murdered child are blanked out in the household's entry in the 1939 register. Her husband (born in 1916) and the other child who died young are unredacted.

[Annie65115]

Dorothy' s parents seem to have been Leslie William Hunt (b 1889) and Annie M Hunt (b 1909), who were living in Gentleshaw for the 1939 register. (The newspaper reports give Dorothy's mother's name as Annie Millicent Hunt). They are next door but one to a Bradbury couple, and I see there is a marriage on freeBMD for Annie M Bradbury and Leslie Hunt in the right area in 1920. The birth of Dorothy M Hunt, mmn Bradbury, was regd in the same area in q1 1922 -- so I guess this was Dorothy Adderley's birth.

[nowornever]

Burntwood Asylum (opened 1864)  was very near to Gentleshaw.  Could she have gone there?

staffordshire.record.office@staffordshire         may be able to help with surviving records    Tel 01785 278379 - but in the current crisis they are preferring an email

Oops There could be a difficulty with the 100 year rule

[AntonyMMM]

The case file is available at the National Archives ( ref: DPP 2/832)

[Gigi]

Hi All

Thanks again for all your useful info and ideas.

Gigi