Churchmen Dug Up Grave and Put Blackbird in Coffin
Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK) › November 15, 2009
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MADAM, - I couldn't resist putting something together on Molly Leigh after reading All Our Yesterdays on October 31.
Much has been written about Molly, the alleged Burslem witch. Yet virtually nothing is known about her actual life, and rumours of her involvement in witchcraft all date from after her death.See the full content of this document
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Churchmen Dug Up Grave and Put Blackbird in Coffin
One clear fact is that the parish register for Burslem recorded her burial on April 1, 1748, as "Mrs Margaret Leigh, of the Jackfield".
Not even her birth, supposedly occurring in 1685, can be traced. In that year the register records only a handful of baptisms, s...See the full content of this document
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