Person:Charlotte Rigby (1)

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Charlotte Davis was named in the will of her father, Thomas Rigby, whose will was proven 14 December 1819 in Saint Dunstan Stepney, Middlesex, England. [Source: England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858]

I give and bequeath unto my daughter Charlott Davis fifty pounds money likewise the interest of of one thousand pounds _____ five per rent owing her natural life for her own sole use no present or other future husband to have only power of ____ over it whatsoever and at her ____ to be disposed of in the following manner that five hundred pounds ____ ____ five per r__t tobe equally divided amongst all her children & lawfully begotten as they attain the age of twenty one years share and share alike in trust of my Executors and one hundred pounds ___ five per rent to her husband Charles Davis and the remaining four hundred pounds ___ the principal be equally divided amongst all my children that may be living share and share alike...

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2.   Central Criminal Court Records London, England
   23 August 1841.

   Reference Number: t18410823-2113.
   
   
   2113. ANN POOL was indicted for stealing, on the 22nd of July, 1 shift, value 4s., the goods of Charles Edmund Davis: and MARY POOL for feloniously receiving the same, well knowing it to have been stolen; against the Statute, &c. .
   
   MART PATTISON . I am a widow, and live in John-street, White Horse-lane, Stepney, and take in washing and mangling. I had a basket of clothes from Mrs. Davis, of Stepney, on the 22nd of July—they were mangled about four o'clock, and 1 gave them to Ann Pool, to take to Mrs. Davis—I am sure that there was a shift amongst them—Mrs. Davis sent her son, who said there was a shift missing—Ann Pool was in my presence at the time—she looked at me, and said, "What will you do?"—I said, "I don't know, I sent them all by you"—I then sent her to another person I sent clothes to, and it was not there—about six o'clock Ann Pool wanted 6d. of me, and she said she could get the shift if I would go with her—I went with her—she went to a pawnbroker near Limehouse church—it was not there—I afterwards saw this shift at the station..
   
   CHARLOTTE DAVIS . I am the wife of Charles Edmund Davis. This shift has the appearance of being mine, but the mark is picked out..
   
   THOMAS DICKER . I am a pawnbroker. On the 22nd of July, Mary Pool came and offered this shift in pledge—on looking at it I found a name had been marked on it in blue cotton, and picked out—I asked if it was hers—she said yes, and she lived at Bankside, Southwark—we then fastened the door—she tried to get out, and said she was going to get the owner—we said, we thought she said it was her own—she said it was hers—we then asked how she came so far to pawn it—she said she might have come to see a friend—she then said she bought it in Petticoat-lane, she gave half-a-crown for it and the shoes she had on..
   
   WILLIAM NICOL (police-constable K 177.) I was called, and took Mary Pool—she said she had bought this in the Back-road, and gave 3s. for it—she does not live where she said she did—she lives at Limehouse..
   
   Ann Pool's Defence. I went to my mother, and asked her to pawn it for me; I wanted to borrow a few shillings of my sister, who lives at Bankside, and she had not got it to lend me..
   
   (The prisoners received good characters.).
   
   ANN POOL— GUILTY . Aged 40.
   
   MARY POOL— GUILTY . Aged 75..
   
   Recommended to mercy.— Confined One Month..