SINGULAR RECOVERY OF A LOST CHILD.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 442, 13 November 1875, Page 3

SINGULAR RECOVERY OF A LOST CHILD.

A singular recovery of a girl, lost from her mother for about live years, has just taken place at Preston. The other night a poor widow named Roach, on her way from the north to Manchester, where she was expectwork as a seamstress, took lodgings in the tramp, ward of the Preston Union Workhouse, at Fglwood. Next morning, previous to leaving the place, she chanced to say, in the presence or a woman named Mansley and her children, who were also located at the workhouse, that five years ago she lost at at Preston a little girl named Alary Ann Roach. One of Mansley’s children, a little girl, noticing the name, said that a playmate of hers, at the; Workhouse, often used to write' het name down as “Mary Ann T\o;mh,” observing when doing ao, that ake

had two names. Subsequently the principal porter at the workhouse, hearing of this interview, made some inquiries, questioning the woman Roach and the girl separately. The way in which each of them referred to certain names and bygone events agreed so markedly, that there was no longer any doubt as to the girl being the daughter of the woman Roach ; the latter was allowed to take charge of her, and they left the workhouse together. It seems that the girl was admitted »to the house about five years ago, she having previously been found in the streets, taken to the Union offices, and thence sent to the establishment. When admitted she was about eight years old, and at that time she gave in her name as Nevil—that being her mother’s maiden name. The girl, when originally missed, had been taken out by a servant in Preston,, who, through accident or negligence, lost her. The mother, on recovering the child, stated that she had traversed the country for many miles round in search of her. On two or three occasions the woman, who is the widow of a soldier, has stayed for a short time at the Preston Workhouse, but owing to the child having given in the name of Nevil, she did not hear of her.