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Boy of Cheeld?

Joe Posted: 19.12.2006, 10:08



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??? !!! Boy or Cheeld !!! ???

This item was extracted from the pages of a local newspaper from the year 1823:

“An extraordinary case has recently occurred in the parish of Gwennap. A young girl who worked at one of the mines was discovered to be pregnant and being brought by the Overseers before a Magistrate in order to filiate her expected offspring, to the astonishment of all present she swore that another young girl with whom she was known to be in habits of close intimacy, was the father. As she persisted in this statement, the accused nondescript was brought before his Worship, when on investigation, the following facts were elicited.

The mother of the offender, for reasons which we have not learned, contrived to pass a male infant of which she was delivered upon her acquaintance as a female. At an early age the child was sent to work as a bal-girl at one of the mines. Here the disguised youth formed an intimacy with the daughter of another miner, they worked together and occasionally as friends slept together at the house of the latter.

The consequence has been already noted.

The lad has put on garment suited in his sex and under all the circumstances of the case, the Overseers have not thought proper to act with severity towards him.”
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frenchie Posted: 19.12.2006, 10:40



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That'll learn 'em.. icon_smile
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Coady Posted: 22.12.2006, 01:33

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Coady Posted: 22.12.2006, 01:34

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