Helen Duncan?
My entire Saturday was spent reading old letters of my Gran’s. Seems that my Gran was a member of some secret society called the Duncans. I have no idea what this society was or why they existed, but I have found several references to someone named Helen Duncan. Below is a bit about her from Wikipedia. Cheers! 
From Wikipedia:
Helen Duncan (November 25, 1897 – December 6, 1956) was a Scottish medium, best known as the last person to be imprisoned under the British Witchcraft Act of 1735.
Duncan is often referred to as the last person to be convicted of being a witch, but this view is incorrect in two important aspects. Firstly, the Witchcraft Act 1735 under which she was convicted dealt not with witchcraft but with people who falsely claimed to be able to procure spirits. Secondly, there was a subsequent conviction under the act, of Jane Rebecca Yorke of Forest Gate in East Ham later in 1944; York was bound over to keep the peace.
On her release in 1945, Duncan promised to stop conducting seances; however, she was arrested after another one in 1956. She died a short time later. Duncan’s trial almost certainly contributed to the repeal of the Witchcraft Act, which was contained in the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951 promoted by Walter Monslow, Labour Member of Parliament for Barrow-in-Furness. The campaign to repeal the Act had largely been led by Thomas Brooks, another Labour MP, who was a spiritualist. However, her original conviction still stood, and a campaign to have her posthumously pardoned continues.
The photograph below was stapled to a folder about Helen Duncan.
November 14th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Was this society named for Helen Duncan? (Sad that she had to die from something like that, like an outdated law…) That’s pretty interesting that your Gran was involved in something like that… I hope you find more information about it, too. It’s always good to know where your roots are, you know?
November 14th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Hmmmm….secret organization? That is pretty weird..
November 15th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
My Dad told me last night that Gran was quite wild for her day. I asked him to tell me more but my Mum came into the room and it was suddenly the end of our conversation.
I can’t wait for Saturday to come. I will have the entire day to go through the rest of the box. Major woot! 
January 13th, 2008 at 9:56 am
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