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About Ellen Legh
15-year-old girl heiress Ellen Turner was abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield six years after the death of his wife. His wife died in childbirth a few months before her 21st birthday, meaning that she hadn't come into her inheritance yet. Wakefield seems to have hoped that Ellen Turner’s family would go along with the marriage in order to avoid embarrassment and scandal. Ellen’s family stepped in, organised for the marriage to be annulled and Wakefield himself was sentenced to three years in Newgate Prison for abduction. His brother and stepmother were also jailed for helping him.
The Shrigley abduction was a British case of an attempted forced marriage of young heiress Ellen Turner to later colonial politician Edward Gibbon Wakefield. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrigley_Abduction
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Ellen Legh's Timeline
| 1811 |
February 12, 1811
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Blackburn, Lancashire, England (United Kingdom)
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August 8, 1811
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Blackburn, Lancashire, England (United Kingdom)
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1830
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Lyme Park, Cheshire, England (United Kingdom)
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| 1831 |
January 17, 1831
Age 19
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Lyme Park, Cheshire, England (United Kingdom)
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January 27, 1831
Age 19
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St. Oswald Churchyard, Winwick, Warrington, Cheshire, England (United Kingdom)
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