Elizabeth Dimes

  General Notes:

Lived at 102 Minories.
16 Dec 1879, the sole benficiary of the will of brother Frederick, which was less than £50.
On her death, her nephew John Betham was able to claim £100 of 3 percent stock belonging to Elizabeth that had not been claimed since 1844. Elizabeth left a total of £1,109.

The following is an extract from www.oldbaileyonline.com
ANN WILLIAMS, theft : simple grand larceny, 18th September, 1820.
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Ref: t18200918-201
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Trial Summary:
Crime(s): theft : simple grand larceny
Punishment Type: imprisonment
Verdict: Guilty
Crime Location: Merlin's Cave, public-house
Original Text:
1100. ANN WILLIAMS was indicted for stealing, on the 8th of June, forty-eight handkerchiefs, value 5 l, , the goods of Charles Dimes .
CHARLES DIMES . I am a haberdasher, and live in Holborn. On the 8th of June, the prisoner came to my shop, and said she was servant to the niece of Mrs. Collyer, of the Bull Inn, who was married, and lived in Northampton-square, and her mistress wished to see some handkerchiefs, that she was going out, and they must be sent directly. I looked out three or four dozen, and sent my daughter with them. They then went away together.
ELIZA DIMES . My father sent me with the prisoner. I had the parcel. When we got to the back of Merlin's Cave, public-house, she said
"This is our house, if you will stop a few minutes in the garden I will see if my master is at home." She spoke to a person at the bar, returned and said she did not know what to do, for her mistress was gone to her sister's. I agreed to go there. She said I could wait in the parlour till she returned. I gave them to her and sat down in Merlin's Cave. She did not return, and was apprehended two days afterwards. I gave them to her to shew her mistress, she was to bring me back what her mistress did not choose.
JOHN BARNLEY . I am a constable. I apprehended the prisoner, and found two duplicates in her pocket, and three more in a bureau in her room.
ALEXANDER MILNE . I am a pawnbroker. On the 9th of June, the prisoner pledged three handkerchiefs, and on the 10th two more.
JOHN WHELDEN . On the 8th of June, the prisoner pledged eight handkerchiefs with me.
(Property produced and sworn to.)
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GUILTY . Aged 22.
Confined Six Months .
Third Middlesex Jury before H. R. Reynolds, Esq.

There was an Elizabeth Dimes living in the Peckham House Asylum with the same birth year as Elizabeth,