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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ The following is an extract from the contemporary diary of William Thomas -
"16 February 1765 - Was buried in Cowbridge, two months before her time with her two children, being twins, in her womb, and she was delivered by a surgeon, of about 45 years of age, a first cousin of Madam Jones of Fonmon, for she was either daughter or grandaughter of the late Revd. Mr. Thomas Hancorne, Rector of St. Donats, deceased. She was wife to William Rosser, late of Burthin, Shopkeeper, now Keeper of Cowbridge's House of Correction. She dy'd from his abuseing her as the report goes, and he was before Mr. Bruce, a Justice of the Peace, in her case, but was cleared by the Surgeon etc."
ref.: The Diary of William Thomas, 1762-1795 by R. T. W. Denning, William Thomas
Review author[s]: Sara Smith
The English Historical Review, Vol. 113, No. 451 (Apr., 1998), pp. 482-483?
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