The title is from a newspaper article I found about a great, great Grandmother, Jane Pressey*, who seems to have had a bit of a bad temper. She and a neighbour came before the Portsmouth Police Court on the 25th June 1874. The article is from the Hampshire Telegraph dated 27th June 1874:
Jane Foxall, of №7 George’s-place, Church-path, was summoned for using filthy language towards Jane Pressey, a neighbour, on the 20th inst. A cross-summons charged Pressey with using similar language towards Foxall. From the evidence it appeared that the parties had lived on bad terms for some time past, and a few days since they had a quarrel, which resulted in their abusing each other, and by making use of exceedingly filthy language. Mr. Wells said they both appeared to be foul-mouthed, abusive women, and would be fined 15s each, including costs, with the alternative of seven days’ imprisonment each.
I am very glad to say that this does not run in the family — although I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall.
*Jane Pressey née Barnes was born in 1844 in Portsea, Hampshire. She married James Thomas Pressey in 1st September 1861. They had 13 children, three of whom died in childhood. James worked as a blacksmith at Portsmouth dockyards and retired in 1904. Jane died in 1907, and James in 1916.
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