Sarah Jacob, the 'Welsh fasting girl',

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 23137E
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004628058
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1870.
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 85 ff. ; 415 x 310 mm. Filed.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Brief for the defence in the case heard at the Carmarthenshire Assizes, July 1870, against Evan and Hannah Jacob of Llanfihangel-ar-arth, co. Carmarthen, for the manslaughter of their daughter, Sarah Jacob (1857-69), the 'Welsh Fasting Girl'; the brief includes transcripts of depositions by witnesses, taken before the magistrates at Llandysul, and of related correspondence.

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Acquisition Information

Mrs Elsie Hughes; Llanfihangel-ar-arth; Purchase; 1993

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23137E

Alternative Form Available

Digital version available: http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4631929

Archivist's Note

February 2009.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003);

Related Material

See also NLW Facs 813, which contains a photocopy of NLW MS 23137E; NLW D. Roy Evans MS 10, which contains a volume of newspaper cuttings, 1869-1870, relating to the death of Sarah Jacob and the subsequent inquest upon the event.

Bibliography

See Fowler, Robert: A complete history of the case of the Welsh Fasting-Girl ... (London, 1871); NLW D. G. Lloyd Hughes MS G/34, which contains an account of Sarah Jacob, including the imprisonment of her parents following the event (published in Y Casglwr (Winter 1993)).

Additional Information

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