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Spot the hangman? Doodles in 1800s court records uncovered

A member of Jersey Archive noticed the doodles when transcribing the Poursuite Criminelles index – which catalogues criminal cases tried before the Royal Court.   While transcribing the records, they stumbled on doodles in the entries for two individuals: Andrew Thomas and Robert Thornton.  Next to Thomas’s name, the word ‘pendu’ (hanged) was accompanied by […]

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