Shrigley abduction
The
Shrigley abduction was an 1826 British case of a
forced marriage by
Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the 15-year-old heiress Ellen Turner of
Pott Shrigley. The couple were married in
Gretna Green,
Scotland, and had travelled to
Calais,
France, by the time authorities were notified by Turner's father and intervened. The marriage was
annulled by Parliament, and Turner was legally married two years later, at the age of 17, to a wealthy neighbour of her class. Edward Gibbon Wakefield and his brother William, who had aided him, were each convicted at trial and sentenced to three years in prison.
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