Hello, on a glorious (?) wet day
I am trying to trace the story of Jemima Rickard, nee Aver. She lived at Towcester, Northants from about 1845 until her death in 1877.
I think she was baptised at Kenwyn in 1820, and the 1841 census gives her as a single person in Probus workhouse. Ancestry gives her discharge from Bodmin Prison as 1844 regn no. 9845: and 1845 regn no. 10198.
She had a son James at Towcester Workhuse in 1850, giving her as Jemima Rickard nee Aver.
The 1851 census gives her as born Truro, married, head of household with one child, living at Towcester.
Her Settlement Examination at Towcester 1854 says she married James Rickard "years ago", but he left her on 13 March 1850, she has no contact with him or her parents.and she has no contact with her mother and father.
I would like to know why she was in Bodmin Prison, was she there once or twice (or more?), and why she had rejected her parents.
Can anyone offer any help to brighten up a pretty nasty day here in East Anglia?
Coelmar