ranniford

Updated: May 16, 2025

On one occasion two Bow Street officers observed her at her old trade, in company with the child Ranniford. On the other side of the bridge, the patroles saw the prisoner Smith deliver something to the child, and point out the shop of Mr. Isaacs, a fruiterer, in Bridge Street, Westminster. The child went in, and asked for a juicy lemon, and gave a counterfeit shilling in payment. Mrs.

Samuel Wilderspin - The Infant System: For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age

I will give another instance which occurred at the office at Queen Square. A female, apparently no more than nineteen years of age, named Jane Smith, and a child just turned of five years old, named Mary Ann Ranniford, were put to the bar, before Edward Markland, Esq., the magistrate, charged with circulating counterfeit coin in Westminster and the county of Surrey, to a vast extent.

Samuel Wilderspin - The Infant System: For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age