I, never knew about Maggie. These are historical memories that deserve to be remembered Thank You for researching, writing and making this video of her epic survival against all odds
Close to Maggie DIckson's pub in the Grassmarket there is also The Last Drop pub, facing out to where the public hangings used to take place. These days that location is generally covered in tables and chairs where tourists are eating and drinking!
I’m glad she had friends who believed her innocence. Women were often persecuted for things out of their control. Poor thing can’t help she miscarried. It’s a shame she had to hide it. Hope her husband stuck around through good and bad after that and may she Rest In Peace.
So good to see a few views of Edinburgh castle, used to work there years ago and brings back memories. The place has history oozing out of the walls! I won't be the only one to have experienced something indisputably "odd" there either. Genuinely has its ghosts.
I never liked the grass market. It's all done up for tourists now, but not so long ago it had this eerie atmosphere. I saw men with ropes tied round filthy coats down there. They begged for pieces of bread in dripping from charity houses. There is a horrible atmosphere there till this day. This Maggie.... she killed her own bairn ( child). She seemed friendless at the time, but friends appeared like magic when a woman of ill repute in those days , was condemned. I love the story and the way you tell it. I think l will not be going much to the Grass market..😊...being of a cowardly nature. 😊. Thank you so very much.....it was really interesting.
To my understanding, Maggie Dickson came to outside a bar in Millerhill , by Dalkeith, Midlothian, called The Cockatoo. It's been closed a few years now but still stands.
The old public hanging executions a great many were botched. Hence developed the expression "pulling someone's leg" and if that failed to work quickly, then, "pull the other one!"
It was a crime punishable by execution to hide a pregnancy in the United States. Bastardy was punished by fines and imprisonment----for women. Womem were naturally afraid of this, because their reputation would be destroyed in a way mens' never would. Also, because miscarriages and stillborns and death in childbirth were common, there were no options that weren't cruel. There was also the case of female indentured servants. If they got pregnant, they had to pay their masters with additional years of service for the inconvenience. Then of course so many masters raped their servants to get extra free years of service that a law was passed so that the woman served the town, not her master. In some cases, if the child lived, it was sentenced to life service too. Of course women had good reason to hide their pregnancies, so hiding a pregnancy was made a death penalty crime. Children who didn't survive toddlerhood were common, because of course there was no medication to speak of back then, so women who could got abortions, which nobody cared about, if it came before "quickening"----when the woman could feel movement. Till then, it was considered regulating or restarting one's period. So women hid their pregnancies and hid births. Another law got passed. If you did not have witnesses that could testify that the child was born alive, you were condemned to death. If you gave birth out of wedlock, you could be whipped, were certainly "ruined" and could not find decent work. Families tossed out daughters onto the streets, where prostitution was the only option. Then came disease and death in one's thirties, if you were lucky. And of course, nobody believed any woman who said they were raped. (At the time, pregnancy was considered impossible without "the little death" , so nobody believed a pregnancy could result from rape.)
Thank you for keeping pieces of history like this alive.
I, never knew about Maggie. These are historical memories that deserve to be remembered
Thank You for researching, writing and making this video of her epic survival against all odds
Close to Maggie DIckson's pub in the Grassmarket there is also The Last Drop pub, facing out to where the public hangings used to take place. These days that location is generally covered in tables and chairs where tourists are eating and drinking!
I’m glad she had friends who believed her innocence. Women were often persecuted for things out of their control. Poor thing can’t help she miscarried. It’s a shame she had to hide it. Hope her husband stuck around through good and bad after that and may she Rest In Peace.
This is what Republicans what.
So good to see a few views of Edinburgh castle, used to work there years ago and brings back memories. The place has history oozing out of the walls! I won't be the only one to have experienced something indisputably "odd" there either. Genuinely has its ghosts.
Glad she survived. What a awesome testimony. Her living 40 more years in peace is strength 4 u will not die until it is ur set time 2 go.
"wake up Maggie! I think I got somethin ta say ta you!"
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It's late September and I really should be back at school!
Oh Maggie I couldn’t have tried anymore
@@kennethhigdon1159 🤣🤣👍👍
I'll never get bored of you mentioning old Monmouth. There's probably something wrong with me...
NO, THERE'S NOT A THING WRONG WITH YOU, SIR!! GREETINGS FROM VENTURA, CALIFORNIA, USA!!
"She could not legally be put to death a second time." 😄Works for me.
That part of Edinburgh looks lovely...not too touristy ❤️
The Grass Market is very "touristy", as much of Edinburgh's Old Town.
That was the Royal Mile they were showing its a road that goes from the castle to Holyrood Palace .
@@greengoblin876 I think this footage of the Royal Mile was shot at the height of the Pandemic. Usually it isn't so quiet there.
@@flitsertheo be glad as tourist money keep the town alive.
The hangmen are always tied up at work. 🤣
I never liked the grass market. It's all done up for tourists now, but not so long ago it had this eerie atmosphere. I saw men with ropes tied round filthy coats down there. They begged for pieces of bread in dripping from charity houses. There is a horrible atmosphere there till this day. This Maggie.... she killed her own bairn ( child). She seemed friendless at the time, but friends appeared like magic when a woman of ill repute in those days , was condemned. I love the story and the way you tell it. I think l will not be going much to the Grass market..😊...being of a cowardly nature. 😊. Thank you so very much.....it was really interesting.
Wow. Never heard this one. Thank you
Thanks for the video, my first legal pint was in Maggie Dickson’s!
Fascinating story. Thank you.
God bless Maggie.
With help from her gentlemen friends. Maggie must have been a verra good wench.
🏴 Thank you
How did they find out that it was her? I mean it should have been harder to do so without forensics
The gullitine never failed.
I've been to Maggie Dickson's bar, had a lovely fresh mushroom soup after a night out in Edinburgh.
Do Deacon Brodie Next.
Love this story, and that nickname! 😁
You should do a video on “Half Hung McNaughton”
To my understanding, Maggie Dickson came to outside a bar in Millerhill , by Dalkeith, Midlothian, called The Cockatoo. It's been closed a few years now but still stands.
The Cockatoo was a modern building.
Wow ! Crazy times back then .
That's bonkers!
Proof that Scottish girls are the toughest. You can’t even execute them
The old public hanging executions a great many were botched. Hence developed the expression "pulling someone's leg" and if that failed to work quickly, then, "pull the other one!"
Then why does it mean tricking someone or joking?
Well Hung Willy was an ancestor of mine!
Well done , Maggie ! 😃 What you did wasn't that bad !!! 😃
Charged with hiding a pregnancy 🤣🤣😂
Yup. And with the Republican's take-over of the US Supreme Court, we'll be having cases like that here in the USA.
It was a crime punishable by execution to hide a pregnancy in the United States. Bastardy was punished by fines and imprisonment----for women. Womem were naturally afraid of this, because their reputation would be destroyed in a way mens' never would. Also, because miscarriages and stillborns and death in childbirth were common, there were no options that weren't cruel.
There was also the case of female indentured servants. If they got pregnant, they had to pay their masters with additional years of service for the inconvenience. Then of course so many masters raped their servants to get extra free years of service that a law was passed so that the woman served the town, not her master. In some cases, if the child lived, it was sentenced to life service too. Of course women had good reason to hide their pregnancies, so hiding a pregnancy was made a death penalty crime. Children who didn't survive toddlerhood were common, because of course there was no medication to speak of back then, so women who could got abortions, which nobody cared about, if it came before "quickening"----when the woman could feel movement. Till then, it was considered regulating or restarting one's period.
So women hid their pregnancies and hid births. Another law got passed. If you did not have witnesses that could testify that the child was born alive, you were condemned to death. If you gave birth out of wedlock, you could be whipped, were certainly "ruined" and could not find decent work. Families tossed out daughters onto the streets, where prostitution was the only option. Then came disease and death in one's thirties, if you were lucky. And of course, nobody believed any woman who said they were raped. (At the time, pregnancy was considered impossible without "the little death" , so nobody believed a pregnancy could result from rape.)
How did the authorities know it was her baby at the side of the river tweed ?
What A Video From Blue
Terrible times ! Very interesting though 👍
God Bless her!!
America we call that late term abortion and is legal
Swinging the is ax fairley easy to do well....was he drunk?
Ha jocks can't even do that right it'll be laugh to see how they fare if they get independence 🤣
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🤐 Children, children apart from your mom 👩 No one cares...