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Miss Polly S-m-r

1771 Edition

Bear Street, Leicester Fields

Locations:

Putney

See also:

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Her Covent Garden Ladies Entry:

This lady is the daughter of the master of a strolling Company of players, and tho� she is married continues the name of Miss her misfortune was to marry one of her fathers company, who had an other wife, and a gentleman at Rumford, in Essex, who offered to make her a handsome settlement, provided she could be free from her former engagements, to obtain which, her father prosecuted her husband at the old Bailey, for bigamy from which he was cleared, but took a sum of money to go abroad, and the lady now lives with the aforesaid gentleman, she is tall well made fine face brown hair and eyes, excellent teeth and not a little fond of the sport.

Details
Age:

Home:

London

Appearance:

Tall, brown hair and eyes

Name:

Summer

Price:

Nationality

English

TLDR

Daughter of a master of a travelling music show. Was married to a fellow musician who had another in Rumford Essex. Her father then took him to court for bigamy, which the husband got away with

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