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Richardson from Newburn [Fenwick Room]
Richardson from Newburn [Fenwick Room]
Richardson (Roberta/Bob) from Newburn/Newburn on Tyne
Roberta Richardson as she was christened is aged 40 from Newburn and has a secret.
She has been living her life as a man since she was a teenager because she wanted a job which society deemed was not possible to women, a blacksmith.
Calling herself Bob, she was attracted to the tools of a blacksmith and what they made; tools, hammer, spanner, nails, pins, horse shoes, shackles, ball and chain, chains.
She is reasonably well off being a blacksmith and may have had a horse, called Neville on which she travelled to Hexham. On route to Hexham she would have noticed lots of men making their way to the Moot Hall square and there would have been general discontent of the situation.
They do not like being pushed around and told what to do.
She has lived her life up to now as a man, everyone thinks that she is a man with a ruddy complexion and weathered with the hard labour of fire and sparks from their blacksmith working.
Banging and clanging of the hammer on molten metal would affect her hearing ability. Today, she was wearing her work clothes of breeches, shirt, jacket, tricorn hat and boots.
She is not too keen on joining the Militia because of her age, it would affect her business as a blacksmith and because it may lead to her sex being revealed.
She is quite an intimidating physical presence so she may have been seen by the soldiers as one of the agitators because of her physicality and therefore may have been a prime target for the Militia to fire at.
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