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Re: The Lady with no hands
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Originally Posted by magpie
does anyone remember or have any information on:
Agnes Rhodes Wildman... she lived in the Barnfield area of Accrington:
This is the lady that had her hands cut off by her step-father ( John Whalley) 1923 at the time they lived on Victoria Street Accrington:
Her mother was called Maud:
thank you:
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How awful. Why did he cut her hands off? 
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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs, cackling and telling me
'You'll be next.' They stopped when I started doing the same to them at funerals. 
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