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Croft in the News - Miscellaneous Mix

30/3/2022

 
Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette
Tuesday 18th May 1875
EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF A WOMAN

The Warrington Guardian reports that a woman, named Elizabeth Taylor, appeared before the Warrington magistrates on Friday on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. She appeared in the dock in male attire, and the Chief Constable, in relating to her antecedents, stated that she was the daughter of a gentleman who formerly lived at Penketh, near Warrington. She had been married, but her husband was killed 21 years ago. She commenced to wear male attire 13 years ago. She was employed as a sailor during the American war, and made several trips from South Wales to the American coast in vessels sent out to supply the Alabama and blockade runners with coal. She was known by the names of ‘Happy Ned’ and ‘Navvy Ned’. For some time past she had worked as a labourer on several farms in the neighbourhood of Warrington, and had so late as the 12th inst. Helped to kill 13 pigs for a farmer at Croft. Her sex was not suspected until she was arrested.
The prisoner was fined 5s. and costs.
Widnes Examiner
Saturday 15th May 1880
Birth Announcement

On the 9th instant, at Croft Brewery, Croft near Warrington, the wife of Mr. Reginald Owen, of a son. 
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Leigh Chronicle and Weekly District Advertiser
Friday 1st February 1884
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On Sale, A BAGATELLE TABLE 13ft by 4ft. 6in., with balls and cues complete, in excellent condition. Apply to Mr. Isaac Maines, Horse Shoe Inn, Croft, Warrington.
Leigh Chronicle and Weekly District Advertiser
​Friday 22nd January 1892
LOST AND FOUND

LOST, at Tyldesley, on Saturday, the 16th Inst, a BLACK RETRIEVER DOG, with white spot on breast – Anyone taking same to Mr. Yates, Pork Butcher, Leigh, will be rewarded.
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FOUND, BLACK RETRIEVER BITCH. If not claimed in three days will be sold. – Apply 84 Wigan Road, Westleigh.
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Leigh Chronicle and Weekly District Advertiser
​Friday 6th May 1892
TWO-HEADED CALF!
EXTRAORDINARY
FREAK OF NATURE!
TO BE SEEN AT THE
JOINER’S ARMS HOTEL,
CROFT, NEAR WARRINGTON.
​
S. DAXON, Proprietor.

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