|
Pages: 1 [2]
|
 |
|
Author
|
Topic: **COMPLETED** Lewes Prison in 1861 (Read 822 times)
|
kizmiaz
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1414
Me, aged 4, just starting out on The Dusty Trail
|
Glad to be of service Paula, and spooky that they were convicted on the same day. Going by your surname interests, and the charge and penalty, 9 cases separated them both if I'm not mistaken, so its possible that both our ancestors had a chat outside the court while they waited. Small world, isn't it!
I guess it was more a conveyor-belt justice system in those days, waiting for the judge to make his rounds and all the criminal cases would be heard in quick succession. Not fun to be banged up, but without such little snippets into the daily lives of our ancestors it would be a much less interesting hobby.
Glen
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
In Sussex - Robins, Willis, Hills, Winchester, Harwood, Breden, Jupp, Matthews, Windsor, Dove, Duly, Baker and lots more. In London - Scully, Day, Emery, Alger All Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jane Masri
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 3867
My back garden
|
Hi Paula,
This is the information given out by Ancestry about Andrews;
'Compiled in England during a period from the 1880s to 1965 by a number of Chancery Agents, this is an index of thousands of small cards containing information on individuals, from next of kin advertisements, will notices, unclaimed estates, and missing persons listings taken from all national and several overseas newspapers and many other sources including The London Gazette, notices under the Colonial Probate Act of 1892 and deaths abroad, as well as other official sources including obituaries.
Many of the sources are now extinct. Mostly, the original newspaper cutting has been pasted on the card and this is often annotated either with references from recorded wills or with information gathered from Civil Registration and other reliable sources. The exact dates covered by each source are, as yet, uncertain, but most dates of death are usually in the 20th century referring back to individuals born in the 18th and 19th centuries. The latest date of death found has been 1970. This collection doesn't have a consistent amount of data, so we aren't going to capture it all, just the things we find most frequently. Just fill in the fields you can find information for on the image and don't feel bad about skipping them if there is no information on the image.
These are generally not difficult to read, but they require some thought as to which fields to fill in and which to leave blank,so on a scale of 1 to 5, the difficulty of this project would be a 2.'
As you can see they're not exclusively about Sussex but I've come across many Sussex families & they really will be a great resource once launched!
jane
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukResearching BRABY/BRAVERY in SURREY and SUSSEX PLEASE use the look-up requests page not a personal message. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
kizmiaz
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1414
Me, aged 4, just starting out on The Dusty Trail
|
Thanks Toni,
I think the Brighton History Centre has the Sussex Express on microfilm, as well as a couple of other Sussex papers of the time, so it's going to be a long Saturday sat there scrolling through them, trying to find where the adverts end and the news starts! There may be something there to put more flesh on the bones.
I've had a quick nose around the 19th Century newspapers and there doesn't seem to be any mention of it, so I guess it was a very local event.
Glen
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
In Sussex - Robins, Willis, Hills, Winchester, Harwood, Breden, Jupp, Matthews, Windsor, Dove, Duly, Baker and lots more. In London - Scully, Day, Emery, Alger All Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
|
|
kizmiaz
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1414
Me, aged 4, just starting out on The Dusty Trail
|
Just to update if anyone is interested.
Eliza was convicted of "forging and uttering an order for the delivery of certain goods" which, it turns out, consisted of "4 lbs. of moist sugar, 1/2 lb. of black tea, and various other articles"
Four months hard labour for a few cups of tea! Bet she never touched the stuff after that.
The shop-keeper went bankrupt a few years later, so I hope Eliza wasn't the cause.
Glen
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
In Sussex - Robins, Willis, Hills, Winchester, Harwood, Breden, Jupp, Matthews, Windsor, Dove, Duly, Baker and lots more. In London - Scully, Day, Emery, Alger All Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
|
|
|
Pages: 1 [2]
|
|
|
|
|
