Mary Ann Newy Eyewitness Account

• Place: Manchester
• Role: Spectator

23/11/1819 Statement of Newy re injury to Elizabeth Farren by Yeomanry when she went with Faren and Charlotte Dykins to the meeting. Farren said it was Mr Tabbutt’s son who injured her.

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9/11/1819 Statement of events on 16th Aug incluidng the thrown brickbats. He and Mr Barratt went home to protect their property but also a Mr Fox, Yeoman saved him from serious injury in the crush.HO40/16 f. 313. Statement of Mary Anne Newy of 36 Lombard Street Manchester, 23 Nov 1819.

Mary Anne Newy of No. 36 Lombard Street wife of Josiah Newy of the same place has known Elizabeth Farren the person who has been said to have been cut by one of the Yeomanry on the 16th of August last at the Meeting near Saint Peters for upwards of 4 months before that time. She lived next door to Examinant. Examinant & Charlotte Dykins with some other women went with Elizabeth Farren to the Meeting about 11 o’clock in the forenoon. Examinant, Charlotte Dykins & Elizabeth Farren placed themselves for a long time near the Line of Constables till the time when Hunt came upon the Ground, when Elizabeth Farren said she would go nearer to him. She asked Examinant to go with her, but she declined it & Examinant did not see her again till about 2 o’clock. It was about half an hour after the Soldiers first came upon the grounds. When Examinant saw her, her head was tied up with a Handkerchief. Examinant asked her how she had been hurt, when she said she had been cut by a Cavalry Man, “I should know him again if I was to see him, he was a great dark man, with great Black Whiskers, he rode near the Trumpeter.” Examinant then left her & saw her again in about three days when (she) Elizabeth Farren said it was Mr Tebbutt’s Son who had cut her, she knew him by having lived seven weeks in Camp Street, near Mr Tebbutt’s. Examinant saw her a third time about a week or ten days after the 16th of August. She said the Reformers had been with her, a Mr Denison from Liverpool was one, who said she must not make it up with Mr Tebbutt for whatever money he would give her, they would make it up with him.
Examinant says she saw Elizabeth Farren again last Sunday night who called upon Examinant at her rooms. Examinant being surprised asked her what had brought her. She said Mr Denison and the Reformers had sent three Letters for her to come to Manchester but she did not know for what. Her head then appeared well. There was however no appearance of a Hurt.
When Examinant first saw her, she shewed the Child which she had had all the day in her arms, & Examinant observed it had a Hurt on its head by a rub against something, but nothing like a cut.

The X Mark of
Mary Anne Newy
Sworn Manchester the
Twenty third of November
1819 Before
J Silvester

[Note on document]

Copy of
the Deposition of
Charlotte Dykins
23rd Nov 1819
[ ? ] Elizth Farren
falling into a cellar

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